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One man's war: a case for systemic change in military mental health
No full textIn the following pages, I will use the story of my patient Lee, who I have been treating in my role as his therapist for a period of three and half years. This case study will be used to illustrate the difficulties that service members face when transitioning back into the community. I will also challenge some of the current leading paradigms that are used for treating individuals with symptoms related to their combat experiences. This case will highlight the importance of individualized, culturally competent treatment within the context of a strong therapeutic alliance and the absence of possible secondary gain. Through a person-in-environment and with a historical appreciation, this case will explore Lee's journey in hopes of providing some generalizable knowledge and offer a different way to conceptualize traumatic experiences and individuals' responses to them.DSWIncludes bibliographical referencesby Brandi M. Koh
Genetics of male osteoporosis
No full textIn the past years, several epidemiological and clinical observations have underlined the importance of genetics in the pathogenesis of both female and male osteoporosis. It has been estimated that from 50 to 80% of the inter-individual variability in bone mass is genetically determined. In rare instances, osteoporosis in men could be inherited in a simple Mendelian pattern. Examples of this include familial osteoporotic syndromes due to mutations in the aromatase and ER alpha genes. Families have also been described in which high bone mass is
inherited as an autosomal dominant trait, consistent with the effect of a single gene located on chromosome 11. However, except for these rare conditions, osteoporosis has to be considered a multifactorial disease in which genetic
determinants are modulated by hormonal, environmental, and nutritional factors. The genetic effect on bone may also be gender- and site-specific, with different genes regulating bone density at different skeletal sites in males and females. To date, most of the work on the genetics of osteoporosis has focused on women.
In some studies, polymorphisms at the IGF-I, VDR, COLI-alpha1, ER alpha, and aromatase gene have been recently shown to predict BMD variation and osteoporotic risk in males. These observations remain to be confirmed by other independent
studies. Other candidate genes, are still awaiting mapping and identification
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
En route/by Brandi M. Spaethe _x000D_ _x000D_
No full textEn Route is an original book of poems concerning an exploration of sexuality occurring in or on various stages of transition, transport, and in some instances, telekinesis. Most of these spaces are situated in Indiana, namely Indianapolis. This book is, without a doubt, peopled. It begins by setting the stage for the speaker to enter her ruminations on sexuality and intimacy. The succeeding sections group people by sexual identity???straight boys, gay boys, and lesbians. This is a chronological order and there???s no other reason for any one group to come before the other aside from time of exposure. Both her own and the intimate lives of others are viewed as a way to look at what it means to give the self, intimately, to another person
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
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