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What is the Minimum ECG Length to Quantify Beat-to-Beat Variability of Repolarization Morphology?
No full textBeat-to-beat changes in ventricular repolarization are associated with increased vulnerability to ventricular arrhythmias. Beat-to-beat repolarization variability (RV) is usually measured by, computing consecutive QT or RT intervals, which strongly depend on the definition of the T-wave endpoints. In this study MT describe our new method or measuring RV based on the morphological analysis of the repolarization segment and determine the minimal ECC length needed to quantify RV RV was analyzed in 42 ischemic cardiomyopathy patients. For each one, we analyzed ECGs of 8,16,32,64,96 and 128 consecutive beats from Holter ECG recordings. We found that our method provides a new approach to quantify RT without the need to identify T- wave endpoints. In addition, both long-term and short-term ECGs can be used to defect RI: but only long-term ECGs provide information about time changes of the RV signal
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
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
Effect of antihypertensive treatment on peripheral nerve vasculature in spontaneously hypertensive rats.
No full textThe influence of hypertension and of treatment with the dihydropyridine-type Ca+2 antagonist nicardipine on peripheral nerve vasculature were investigated in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR). Male SHR were treated from the 16th to the 26th week of age with vehicle (control group), with nicardipine, at the hypotensive dose of 3 mg/kg/day, or at the nonhypotensive dose of 0.1 mg/kg/day or with an equihypotensive dose (10 mg/kg/day) of the nondihydropyridine-type vasodilator hydralazine. Age-matched normotensive Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats were left untreated and used as normotensive reference animals. In SHR a significant increase of systolic pressure values accompanied by sciatic nerve microvascular changes, involving primarily interfascicular arteries and to a lesser extent intrafascicular arteries, was observed. Treatment with the hypotensive dose of nicardipine countered hypertension-dependent microvascular changes occurring in both interfascicular and intrafascicular arteries. The nonhypotensive dose of nicardipine and hydralazine displayed a modest activity on interfascicular arteries, but significantly countered hypertension-related changes involving intrafascicular arteries. The above findings indicate the occurrence of hypertension-related changes of peripheral nerve microvasculature and of positive effects induced by appropriate pharmacological treatment. Further work is in progress to identify the functional relevance of microanatomical observations of the present study
THERMOANALYTICAL METHODS AS A NEW APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF ATHEROMASIC PLAQUE
No full textThe final stage of the atherosclerotic lesion of vessels is an ulcerated plaque. A very interesting site of atheromasic plaque is in the epiaortic trunks, especially in the carotid vessels where occluding plaques can also be formed. Sometimes non-occulding plaques are potentially harmful due to their possible ulceration and embolisation. Using new techniques, such as Doppler analysis, etc., it is now possible to obtain accurate images reflecting the dimension, composition and structure of the plaques. At the same time, the possibility of removing the plaque by surgery means that it must first be established which plaques are at risk. Therefore, it is desirable to establish a relationship between the instrumental signals and the real risk by techniques which can provide information on the composition, structure and stability of the plaques and to correlate this information with the data from the Doppler analysis. Instrumental techniques such as thermal analysis, atomic absorption spectroscopy, ICP analysis and IR spectroscopy were used to carry out this study
Cerebrovascular and brain microanatomy in spontaneously hypertensive rats with streptozotocin-induced diabetes
No full textThe influence of hypertension associated with diabetes on cerebrovascular and frontal cortex or hippocampus microanatomy was investigated in 20-week-old spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) in which diabetes was induced by treatment with streptozotocin (STZ) and in control or STZ-diabetic age-matched normotensive Wistar Kyoto (WKY) rats. At the beginning of experiment, systolic pressure values were similar in WKY rats either control, or exposed to STZ and remarkably higher in control or STZ-treated SHR. Systolic pressure values increased in the different animal groups examined along the course of experiment. Blood glucose levels were increased in either STZ-WKY rats or -SHR compared to WKY rats and SHR respectively. The main changes occurring in pial and intracerebral arteries of SHR and STZ-SHR were thickening of the arterial wall accompanied by luminal narrowing. In medium sized pial arteries of STZ-WKY rats luminal narrowing and a decreased thickness of arterial wall were noticeable. Intracerebral arteries of STZ-WKY diabetic rats showed a not homogeneous sensitivity of different sized branches. The volume of zones III and IV of frontal cortex was decreased in SHR and STZ-SHR compared to control WKY rats. The number of nerve cells in these cerebrocortical layers was decreased to a similar extent in SHR. STZ-WKY rats or STZ-SHR compared to control WKY rats. In dentate gyrus, followed by the CA1 subfield of hippocampus, decreased volume and number of neurons were found in SHR and STZ-SHR compared to control WKY rats. The occurrence of astrogliosis was observed in hypertensive, diabetic or hypertensive plus diabetic rats. The above findings indicate the occurrence of cerebrovascular and brain microanatomical changes in SHR and to a lesser extent in STZ-diabetic rats compared to control normotensive and normoglicemic WKY rats. Association of hypertension and diabetes caused more pronounced changes than in the single disease models. These results support the view that hypertension and diabetes affect the structure of cerebrovascular tree and of brain and that association of the two diseases results in an increased risk of target-organ damage, involving brain
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No full textEffect of antihypertensive treatment on peripheral nerve vasculature in spontaneously hypertensive rats
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