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Article Health-Related Quality of Life in Children with Celiac Disease: A Study Based on the Critical Incident Technique
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Quality of life in children with celiac disease: A paediatric cross-sectional study
No full textBackground: Few studies investigated factors influencing the quality of life of children with celiac disease on a gluten-free diet. Aims: To investigate the impact of the gluten-free diet on the psycho-physical well-being of celiac children. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, we interviewed 76 celiac and 143 non-celiac children (2-18 years) by using a non-disease specific questionnaire (Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory Test) and we explored the impact of the diet on social life with an open-ended questionnaire. Scores were compared by Wilcoxon rank-sum test. A quantile regression analysis was used to evaluate the impact of celiac disease on score distribution. Results: No significant differences in quality of life were found between the two groups (total score: 84.1 (81.1-87.2) vs 81.5 (79.7-83.4), median (95% CI), patients and controls respectively, p=0.4). Treatment positively affected quality of life in children that showed "intermediate" scores in the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory Test. Lowest scores were observed in children reporting a higher number of diet difficulties or co-morbidities. Conclusions: Although celiac patients showed an overall good quality of life in comparison with a control group, by using appropriate analytical methods we elicited specific factors contributing to a lower quality of life in patients, such as co-morbidities and difficulties with the diet
Storia e geografia dell'alfabetismo in Grecia. Alle origini di un fenomeno
No full textDopo una introduzione metodologica sugli aspetti quantitativi e qualitativi dell'indagine sull'alfabetismo in Grecia, nonché sul'utilità del criterio geografico nella raccolta e l'analisi dei dati (Radiciotti) si esaminano e discutono, nel contesto della storia degli studi, i materiali epigrafici (Biagetti) e letterari (Ammirati) pertinenti
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
HIV-1 infection of a nurse from a newborn with an unknown HIV infection: A case report
No full textBackground: HIV infection of healthcare workers by injury is an
important issue in the management and prophylaxis of HIV-related
disease.
Objectives: To describe a case where a nurse has been HIV-1 infected by
needle-stick whilst taking blood from a newborn with an unknown HIV
infection.
Study design: Virological, immunological and clinical analysis of a
peculiar case of HIV transmission from newborn to nurse has been
reported.
Results: The nurse has been infected by needle-stick injury whilst
taking blood from a newborn with an unknown HIV infection. The delayed
declaration of accident by nurse and the inaccurate medical management
of pregnant woman determined the subsequent absence of correct
prophylaxis measures and then the impossibility to tackle the HIV
transmission.
Conclusion: This case indicates that HIV serological screening of
pregnant women and prompt accident notification by health-care workers
represent basic preventive measures that should effectively tackle the
spread of HIV infection. (C) 2009 Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved
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
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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