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The aetiology of eyelid dermatitis in a series of 191 patients
No full textSeveral studies identified allergiccontact dermatitis (ACD) as the most commoncause of periorbital dermatitis. Nevertheless,there is paucity of studies directly comparing therelevance of allergens in the eyelid dermatitis versusnon eyelid dermatitis populations.Methods. 1043 patients who presented with the clinicalsuspicion of ACD were patch tested in a 2-yearperiod. Patient demographics, clinical features, historyof atopy and results of patch tests were collected.Patch test results of patients with eyelid dermatitiswere compared with those of patients withdermatitis confined to other body areas.Results. 191 out of 1043 patch tested patients(18.3%) presented with eyelid dermatitis. Patientswith eyelid dermatitis were more likely to bewomen compared to the non-eyelid group ofpatients. The two groups did not differ as for thefrequency of atopy, including respiratory atopyand atopic dermatitis. The prevalence of ACD wasstatistically higher in the eyelid group (64.4%)compared to the non-eyelid group (49.4%). Themost relevant allergens in patients with eyelid dermatitiswere metals, preservatives and fragrances.Allergens resulting statistically more frequent ineyelid patients were methylchloroisothiazolinone/methylisothiazolinone, nickel sulphate, disperseblue 124, dimethylaminopropylamine.Conclusions. Patients with eyelid dermatitis arelikely to have ACD, and need appropriate patchtesting
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
Cutaneous manifestations of Churg-Strauss syndrome: report of two cases and review of the literature
No full textComa Blisters in Children: Case Report and Review of the Literature
No full textComa-induced blisters is a rare condition associated with prolonged impairment of conscious level, which is relatively well-known in adults following overdose with barbiturates. However, it has been very rarely described in children. A case of coma-bullae occurring in an 11-year-old child with meningoencephalitis is herein reported. The bullous lesions occurred on the limbs and trunks, and evolved into necrotic ulcers in a few days. No correlation with any drug overdosage was found. A skin biopsy revealed epidermal and eccrine sweat gland necrosis with abundant neutrophils, and thrombosis of the vessels in the lower dermis. A comprehensive review of the literature showed that only 5 cases of coma-bullae in children have been published so far. Coma blistering resolves spontaneously within days or weeks. Diagnosis of coma-bullae may require careful clinical-pathologic correlation to exclude other blistering diseases in children
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
L'opera bilingue di François Loubayssin de la Marque : un contributo all'ispanismo francese secentesco
No full textDispelling 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
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