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Stage Directors, from MUAG 5650
No full textRecording of the MUAG 5650 class, performing "Opera Without Elephants: Scenes Program" at the UNT College of Music Lyric Theater
Block Card 5650 North Detroit Avenue
No full textThis image was produced by the Auditor's Office in Lucas County, Ohio for tax assessment purposes. Associated dates are approximate. Descriptive terms related to this photograph include: commercial building | garages | 5650 North Detroit Avenue (Toledo, Ohio) | Cherry Auto Parts (Toledo, Ohio) | Dixie Motor Sales (Toledo, Ohio) | Greenwood Area (Toledo, Ohio) | North Toledo (Toledo, Ohio
Randomized clinical trial:Efficacy and safety of PPC-5650 on experimental esophageal pain and hyperalgesia in healthy volunteers
No full textAbstract Objective. Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a common condition associated with symptoms as heart burn, regurgitation, chest pain, and gastrointestinal discomfort. PPC-5650 is a new pharmacological agent that can modulate acid-sensing ion channel activity, potentially leading to reduction in the pain signal. In healthy volunteers the esophagus was sensitized with acid to mimic GERD with the aims: 1) to assess the efficacy of a single bolus of PPC-5650 locally applied to the esophagus using multimodal pain stimulations, and 2) to assess the safety profile of PPC-5650. Materials and methods. The study was a randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled, crossover trial in healthy males. Esophageal electrical, thermal, mechanical, and chemical stimulations were performed, pain perception was rated, and referred pain areas were drawn. Sensitization was induced by intraluminal esophageal acid perfusions. Adverse events were registered. Results. Twenty-five healthy males completed the study (mean age 23.4 ± 2.0 years). About 90 min after drug administration, PPC-5650 increased the volume tolerated at moderate pain during mechanical stimulation compared to placebo (difference 13.5, 95% CI: 0.58-26.47, p = 0.04), but there was no effects on thermal-, electrical-, and chemical-induced pain (all p > 0.05). PPC-5650 did not affect referred pain areas to any stimulation (all p > 0.05). Ten participants reported adverse events during the placebo treatment period, and nine participants reported adverse events during the PPC-5650 treatment period (p = 0.8). Conclusion. Sensitization to mechanical stimulation of the esophagus was reduced by PPC-5650 compared to placebo. The overall safety and tolerability of PPC-5650 was acceptable. Thus, PPC-5650 may play a role in the future treatment of patients with GERD.</p
Efficacy and Safety of PPC-5650 on Experimental Rectal Pain in Patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome
No full textPPC-5650 is a new pharmacological agent that can modulate acid-sensing ion channel activity, leading to a reduction in the pain signal under up-regulated conditions. The non-clinical programme for PPC-5650 supported a role for this novel agent in the treatment of pain in patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). In IBS patients, the aims of the study were: 1) to assess the efficacy of a single bolus of PPC-5650 locally applied in the rectum using multimodal stimulations of the recto sigmoid and 2) to assess the safety profile of PPC-5650. The study was a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, cross-over trial in IBS patients, excluding females of child-bearing potential. The study consisted of a training visit, study visit 1 and 2 and a follow-up visit. Rectosigmoid electrical, thermal and mechanical stimulations were performed, pain perception was rated on a pain intensity scale and referred pain areas were assessed. All adverse events were registered. Twenty-five IBS patients were enrolled and completed the study (9 women and 16 men; mean age 50.4±12.7 years). No effects of the study drug were found on any of the rectal stimulations or for referred pain areas (all P>0.05). No significant or clinically relevant treatment-related differences were seen for the laboratory safety variables or any other reported adverse event. In conclusion, in patients with IBS on rectal sensitivity to multimodal stimulations, PPC-5650 did not produce efficacy relative to placebo. The overall safety and tolerability of PPC-5650 was acceptable. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.</p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
The ammonia absorption spectrum revisited between 5650 and 6350 cm<sup>−1</sup>
No full textThe ammonia spectrum is revisited in the important 1.6 µm atmospheric transparency window between 5650 and 6350 cm−1 on the basis of recently recorded high-resolution Fourier transform spectra. These spectra offer an improved frequency sampling and better traceability of the measurement conditions compared to previously studied Kitt Peak spectra (Cacciani et al. J. Quant Spectrosc Radiat Transf 2021; 258:107334. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jqsrt.2020.107334). Overall, 4812 14NH3 lines were measured in the 5650–6350 cm−1 region corresponding to 4866 transitions including 2066 new ones compared with our previous study, included in the HITRAN2020 database. The energy of 1023 upper state levels (including 107 new ones) was derived from 2608 assigned transitions. Independently, ammonia spectra recorded in a supersonic jet expansion using a tunable extended cavity diode laser allow us to check the absolute transition energies in the 5980–6080 cm−1 range. Accurate jet spectra calibration was achieved using CH4 reference line positions known with kHz accuracy. The position agreement with the FTS data is within the 4×10−4 cm−1 uncertainty of the positions measured in the jet expansion. A recommended line list of 5620 transitions is provided for 14NH3 in the considered 5650–6350 cm−1 region.</p
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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