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Thirty years of New Zealand smoking advances a case for cultural epidemiology and cultural geography
No full textThis chapter builds upon a recent series of analyses using the New Zealand census on smoking, which indicates a slowing in the anticipated population-wide declines in smoking with entrenched and growing inequalities between socioeconomic, ethnic, and sex groups over 30 years. These two trends have been explained in part as the responses by marginalized groups to specific policy and commercial contexts. Using the same data, we provide a new life course analysis of successive cohorts since 1976, which indicates a hitherto unexplained sex, ethnic, and place variability in "smoking careers" as well as some common patterns. The range of behaviors supports a proposition that socioeconomic factors explain only part of smoking inequalities and indicate that groups interpret and respond to shared contexts in culturally specific ways. More sophisticated research designs are required to explain contextual influences over subpopulation behaviors, and recent insights into the contagious spread of behaviors and norms among group members over large distances highlight the relevance of the nascent fields of cultural epidemiology and cultural geography. Mixed method designs are required to augment multiple statistical level designs before we can know the intersecting set of determinants to health behaviors. © 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.John D. Glover, Jane Dixon, Cathy Banwell, Sarah Tennant, and Matthew Freema
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Mitomycin C in highly myopic eyes - Author reply
No full textOphthalmology. 2005 Feb;112(2):208-18; discussion 219.
Mitomycin C modulation of corneal wound healing after photorefractive keratectomy in highly myopic eyes.
Gambato C, Ghirlando A, Moretto E, Busato F, Midena E.
SourceRefractive Surgery Service and Antimetabolite Therapy Research Unit, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
Abstract
PURPOSE: To evaluate the role of topical mitomycin C in corneal wound healing (CWH) after photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) in highly myopic eyes.
DESIGN: Prospective, double-masked, randomized clinical trial.
PARTICIPANTS: Seventy-two eyes of 36 patients affected by high (>7 diopters) myopia.
METHODS: In each patient, one eye was randomly assigned to PRK with intraoperative topical 0.02% mitomycin C application, and the fellow eye was treated with a placebo. Postoperatively, mitomycin C-treated eyes received artificial tears (3 times daily, tapered in 3 months), whereas the fellow eye was treated with fluorometholone sodium 2% and artificial tears (3 times daily, tapered in 3 months).
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Uncorrected visual acuity (UCVA) and best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA), contrast sensitivity, manifest refraction, and biomicroscopy. Contrast sensitivity was determined using the Pelli-Robson chart. Corneal confocal microscopy documented CWH.
RESULTS: Mean follow-up was 18 months (range, 12-36). No side effects or toxic effects were documented. At 12-month follow-up examination, UCVAs (logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution) were 0.4+/-0.48 and 0.5+/-0.53 (P = .03) in mitomycin C-treated eyes and corticosteroid-treated eyes, respectively. At 1 year, corneal haze developed in 20% of corticosteroid-treated eyes, versus 0% of mitomycin C-treated eyes. At 12, 24, and 36 months, corneal confocal microscopy showed activated keratocytes and extracellular matrix significantly more evident in untreated eyes (Ps = 0.004, 0.024, and 0.046, respectively).
CONCLUSION: Topical intraoperative application of 0.02% mitomycin C can reduce haze formation in highly myopic eyes undergoing PRK.
Comment in
Ophthalmology. 2006 Feb;113(2):357; author reply 357-8
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
‐Electrocyclizations
No full textAn acyclic, two heterocyclic, and two bicyclic alkenylstannanes, 3, 4a, 4b, 8 and 11, respectively, were synthesized in yields ranging from 43 to 97%, and each was subjected to a sequence of Stille and Heck couplings with 2-bromocyclohexenyl triflate (13) and alkyl (tert-butyl and methyl) acrylate to furnish seven new 1,3,5-hexatrienes 19, 20, 21, 22-tBu, 22-Me, 23 and 43, respectively, in 58-84% yields. For the alkenylstannanes 4a,b, 8 and 11, customized combinations of catalysts had to be used. The Stille-Heck sequence involving 13, 3 and tert-butyl acrylate could be performed in a one-pot mode and proceeded in 75% yield. The hexatrienes were heated in decalin solutions so as to effect 6 pi-electrocyclization. Temperatures and reaction times were optimized individually. The hexatrienes 29, 31 and 36 gave the bi- and tri- cyclic cyclohexadienes 28, 30 and 34, incorporating allylic alcohol and allyl ether termini, by 6 pi-electrocyclization and subsequent [1,5]-hydrogen shift, as single products in good yields (85-93%). In contrast, the hexatrienes 19, 20, 21 and 39 furnished mixtures of the initial electrocyclization products 26, 32, 37 and 40 as well as the products of a subsequent [1,5]-hydrogen shift 27, 33, 38 and 41, respectively, The tricyclic hexatrienes 22-tBu, 22-Me and 23 bearing alkyl (tert-butyl, methyl) acrylate termini also selectively gave the tetracyclic dienes 48-tBu, 48-Me and 50 in 71-77% yields by electrocyclizations and subsequent hydrogen shifts. ((C) Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2007)
A Multi-Language Comparison of Influences on Author Verification using Character N-Grams
No full textWe create a new multi-language corpus for author verification based on Wikipedia talkpages, and evaluate the influence that differences in topic and time have on character n-gram author profiles. Topic alignment between two texts is found to increase author verification precision, and an authors writing style is found to change over time, but not more significantly after 3 years than after 1 year.Information ArchitectureWISElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
A 0.12mm<sup>2</sup> Wien-Bridge Temperature Sensor with 0.1°C (3σ) Inaccuracy from -40°C to 180°C
No full text Resistor-based temperature sensors can achieve much higher resolution and energy efficiency than conventional BJT-based sensors [1], but they typically occupy more area (> 0.25 mm 2 ) and have lower operating temperatures (le 125 {circ} {C}) [2]-[4]. This work describes a 0.12mm 2 resistor-based sensor that uses a Wien-bridge (WB) filter to achieve 0.1 {circ} {C} (3 sigma) inaccuracy from - 40 {circ} {C} to 180 {circ} {C}. Compared to a state-of-the-art WB sensor [4], it occupies 6 × less area and achieves comparable relative accuracy over a 76% wider operating range. Session 10.3 Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Electronic InstrumentationMicroelectronic
Developing a tool-kit for measurement of risk factors in prospective harmonization of paediatric MS case-control studies.
No full textDeveloping a tool-kit for measurement of risk factors in prospective harmonization of paediatric MS case-control studies.
No full textA ±25A Versatile Shunt-Based Current Sensor with 10kHz Bandwidth and ±0.25% Gain Error from -40°C to 85°C Using 2-Current Calibration
No full textAccurate current sensing is critical in many industrial applications, such as battery management and motor control. Precise shunt-based current sensors have been reported with gain errors of less than 1% over the industrial temperature range (-40°C to 85°C) [1]–[4]. However, since they are intended for coulomb counting, their bandwidth is limited to a few tens of Hz, making them unsuitable for battery impedance or motor-current sensing. This paper presents a current sensor with a wide (10kHz) bandwidth and a tunable temperature compensation scheme (TCS), which allows it to be flexibly used with different types of shunts while maintaining high accuracy. A low-cost room-temperature calibration scheme is proposed to optimize gain flatness over temperature by exploiting the shunt's self-heating at large currents. Over the industrial temperature range and a ±25A current range, it achieves state-of-the-art gain error (±0.25%) with both low-cost PCB and stable metal-alloy shunts.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Electronic InstrumentationMicroelectronic
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