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Trypan blue staining of the anterior capsule: the one-drop technique
No full textCapsule staining is usually a two- or three-stage procedure in which trypan blue is injected under air, a viscoelastic device, viscoelastic mixed with dye, or compartmentalized viscoelastic and balanced salt solution. In these techniques, the consequent irrigation of the anterior chamber with balanced salt solution may lead to a less stable anterior chamber, a decrease of pupil diameter, and damage of the corneal endothelium. A modification of current injection techniques for staining the anterior capsule under a dispersive viscoelastic device with 1 drop of trypan blue by an ordinary 27-gauge anterior chamber cannula is describe
Stage 4 diffuse lamellar keratitis after laser in situ keratomileusis Clinical, topographical, and pachymetry resolution 5 years later.
No full textIn March 1999, a 35-year-old woman had uneventful laser in situ keratomileusis in both eyes on the same day. Five days postoperatively, slitlamp biomicroscopy of the left eye showed an appearance similar to haze after photorefractive keratectomy, with greater density at the center and striae convergent toward the infiltrate (stage 4 diffuse lamellar keratitis [DLK]). The patient received treatment with dexamethasone 0.2% eyedrops every 2 hours. After 2 weeks, visual acuity was better and improvement was evident on topography, pachymetry, and slitlamp photography. The improvements were more marked at 6 months and 1 year. There was a progressive increment in corneal thickness and consequent improvement in corneal transparency, curvature, and regularity. This case, in which continuous morphologic adaptation of the cornea occurred, indicates that observation, rather than intervention, is a valid therapeutic option for stage 4 DLK
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
In vivo confocal microscopy in bilateral herpetic keratitis: a case report
No full textPURPOSE. Bilateral herpetic keratitis is a rare infection of the cornea. Ocular herpes in atopic
patients is more often bilateral, with more frequent recurrences. The authors report a case of
bilateral herpes simplex virus (HSV) keratitis during the active phase studied by in vivo confocal
microscopy.
METHODS. A 28-year-old man with 5 years history of unilateral HSV keratitis and atopic dermatitis
was referred to the authors for a clinical and diagnostic evaluation.
RESULTS. The corneas showed the typical features of dendritic HSV keratitis in both eyes. Examination
by in vivo confocal microscopy demonstrated similar lesions in both eyes: a distortion of
the superficial and basal epithelium and the presence of irregular hyperreflective structures and
dendritic particles near the epithelial cells. The subbasal nerve plexus presented a tortuous appearance
with hyperreflective areas and beadlike formations along the fibers. After a week of
antiviral treatment, in vivo confocal microscopy examination demonstrated an irregular epithelium
with highly reflective deposits and reflective areas. A reduction of nerve fiber bundles with
a large number of beadlike formations and abnormal tortuosity was also noted.
CONCLUSIONS. In vivo confocal microscopy enables a noninvasive evaluation of the ocular surface
at a high magnification level. It could be useful for the early and differential diagnosis of
corneal infections and when HSV keratitis recurrence is suspecte
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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