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Author Franklin Burroughs, a longtime visitor to the area, reflects on the chang
No full textAuthor Franklin Burroughs, a longtime visitor to the area, reflects on the changes that have occurred over the years at the Forks, where the Dead and Kennebec rivers converge. The hydro dam at Harris makes for paradoxes in the section of the Kennebec River between Harris and the Forks. At night and into the early hours of the morning the turbines are shut off and the flow is reduced, creating a peaceful, low and rocky river. For most of the daylight hours, Harris Dam is opened, releasing a torrent that turns the river wild. The whitewater has spawned a thriving rafting industry in the area
Viral and Rickettsial Commission Correspondence, Subcommittee on Japanese B Encephalitis -- July-Dec. 1951 -- Correspondence, Military Service AEB/NVC -- letter, 1951-07-13
No full textLetter from Burroughs, A. L. to Sabin, Albert B. dated 1951-07-13.Sabin Collection Fair Use Policy</a
Reply: Prophylactic Variceal Ligation Is Not Recommended for Patients Awaiting Live Donor Liver Transplant.
No full textWe thank Wai and colleagues1 for their comment on our article.2 Their experience is consistent with ours and different from that reported by Jutabha et al.3 In all 3 studies, the patients were liver transplant candidates and thus constituted a particular subgroup of patients with cirrhosis, as underlined also by Boyer.4 In our opinion, this favors the use of beta-blockers instead of banding for primary prophylaxis for at least 2 reasons. The first, as underlined by Wai et al., is the short follow-up before liver transplantation. In fact, as shown in Fig. 2 of our study, patients treated by ligation can bleed during treatment but not after variceal eradication unless varices recur. In contrast, patients taking beta-blockers present the same risk of bleeding over the same time period. As a result, a possible advantage of banding can be seen only after a long follow-up, which is unlikely in patients awaiting liver transplant as usually this occurs within 1 year. The other reason is that this group of patients is followed up intensively, and this may increase compliance to therapy. The use of beta-blockers does require dose adjustment and trying to maximize the dose tolerated by the patient.
The 2 bleeding episodes from postbanding ulcers reported by Wai et al.1 are added to several others that have taken place during prophylactic treatment, including 2 events described in our study. Globally, the reported cases number at least 15, some of which have been fatal. In contrast, beta-blockers for primary prophylaxis of variceal bleeding have not caused fatalities thus far.5
It is difficult to predict which patients are at risk for postbanding ulcer bleeding. Our patients bled 9 and 11 days after the first banding session, respectively. One was Child B7, and the other was Child C14. The patients treated by Wai et al.1 bled 8 and 9 days after the second prophylactic ligation. Shepke et al.6 reported 5 (7%) bleeding episodes from postbanding ulcers, 2 of them fatal. The latter happened 3 and 12 days after the first banding session, respectively. Triantos et al.,7 treating patients unable to take beta-blockers, reported 3 cases of variceal bleeding, all between the first and second prophylactic banding sessions. As most bleeding occurs after the first banding session, we think that longer intervals between sessions, advocated by some authors to overcome this problem,5 would not reduce this risk. In addition and not to be discounted, we found that the costs are reduced to a third when beta-blockers are used with respect to banding for primary prophylaxis in these patients. Thus, nonselective beta-blockers remain the therapy of first choice for primary prophylaxis in liver transplant candidates
The cognitive low-dynamic script in the novel E.R. Burroughs "A princess of mars"
No full textyesIn the article, the script is considered as a low-dynamic cognitive structure. It brings to light the specifics of the studied low-dynamic cognitive structure. The author carried out the cognitive-hermeneutic analysis of a nominative field of the linear script, which was represented in an architectonics of the concept sphere in the work by E.R. Burroughs "A Princess of Mars" and revealed the specifics of studied the low-dynamic structureBelgorod State Universit
The cognitive low-dynamic script in the novel E.R. Burroughs "A princess of mars"
No full textIn the article, the script is considered as a low-dynamic cognitive structure. It brings to light the specifics of the studied low-dynamic cognitive structure. The author carried out the cognitive-hermeneutic analysis of a nominative field of the linear script, which was represented in an architectonics of the concept sphere in the work by E.R. Burroughs "A Princess of Mars" and revealed the specifics of studied the low-dynamic structureyesBelgorod State Universit
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
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