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Impacto de la Terapia Acuática sobre el Pico Flujo de Tos en Pacientes con Enfermedad Neuromuscular
No full textRESUMEN :
INTRODUCCIÓN: Algunas de las enfermedades neuromusculares (ENM) se caracterizan por una disminución progresiva de las pruebas de función respiratoria, como el Pico Flujo de Tos (PFT). A lo largo de los años, se ha hecho más presente la Terapia Acuática (TA) como intervención complementaria para las personas con ENM.
OBJETIVOS: Valorar el impacto de la TA pasiva sobre el PFT en personas con ENM y grandes necesidades de apoyo, y describir estrategias terapéuticas de bajo impacto.
DISEÑO: Estudio piloto de intervención antes-después no controlado mediante el método WATSU en personas de 21 a 64 años con ENM (GMFCS IV-V), con TA como intervención habitual y con consentimiento informado firmado.
MEDICIONES PRINCIPALES: Se valoraron el PFT, la FC y la orientación en el agua. Se realizó un análisis estadístico univariante mediante test estadísticos paramétricos para variables numéricas con distribución normal: t Student.
RESULTADOS: El PFT y la FC tuvieron un impacto significativo (p valor = 0,012; p valor = 0,0014, respectivamente). Parece que la TA con menos sesiones de las que aconsejan estudios previos, acompañada de fisioterapia habitual también podrían aportar resultados óptimos.
CONCLUSIONES: Parece ser que la terapia acuática mediante el método WATSU, acompañada de fisioterapia convencional, es efectiva para incrementar el PCF y disminuir la FC en personas adultas entre 21 y 64 años con diagnóstico de ENM y GMFCS IV-V, permitiendo así describir una opción terapéutica en base a la orientación en el agua de cada persona según el WOTA.
PALABRAS CLAVE : “Enfermedades Neuromusculares”, “Terapia Acuática”, “Pruebas de Función Respiratoria” (DeCs) / “Pico Flujo de Tos” (no DeCS)ABSTRACT :
INTRODUCTION: Some neuromuscular diseases (NMD) are characterized by a progressive decrease in respiratory function tests, such as Peak Cough Flow (PCF). Over the years, Aquatic Therapy (AT) has become more present as a complementary intervention for people with NMD.
OBJECTIVES: To assess the impact of passive AT on the PCF in people with NMD and high support needs, and to describe low-impact therapeutic strategies.
DESIGN: Before-after and uncontrolled pilot intervention study using the WATSU method in people aged 21 to 64 with NMD (GMFCS IV-V), with AT as usual intervention and with signed informed consent.
MAIN MEASUREMENTS: PFT, HR and orientation in the water (WOTA) were assessed. A univariate statistical analysis was performed using parametric statistical tests for numerical variables with normal distribution: Student's t.
RESULTS: The PCF and the HR had a significant impact (p value = 0.012; p value = 0.0014, respectively). It seems that AT with fewer sessions than recommended in previous studies, accompanied by regular physiotherapy, could also provide optimal results.
CONCLUSIONS: It seems that aquatic therapy using the WATSU method, accompanied by conventional physiotherapy, is effective in increasing PCF and decreasing HR in adults between 21 and 64 years old diagnosed with NMD and GMFCS IV-V, thus allowing to describe a therapeutic option based on the orientation in the water of each person according to the WOTA.
KEYWORDS : “Neuromuscular Diseases”, “Aquatic Therapy”, “Respiratory Functional Test” (MeSH) /
“Peak Cough Flow” (no MeSH)Máster Universitari en Fisioteràpia del Tòra
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
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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