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A Hospital Based Prospective Study to Evaluate the Clinical Profile & Outcome of Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) in Infants Below 6 Months of Age
Get PDFBackground: Severe acute malnutrition is increasingly being recognized in infants under 6 months of age and is often associated with higher mortality in young infants than in older infants and children. The aim of this study is to identify the clinical profile and primary outcomeof severe acute malnutrition as defined by WHO growth reference standards in infants aged below 6 months of age at district hospital in Rajasthan. Materials& Methods: A prospective observational study was conducted in the Department of Pediatrics, District hospital, Dholpur, Rajasthan, India during one year period. 30 comprised infants with SAM as defined by current WHO guidelines: weight‐for‐length Z‐score (WLZ) <−3 and/or bilateral nutritional oedema. Exclusions were infants from twin/multiple pregnancies and those with obvious congenital anomalies that could affect feeding (e.g., cleft lip or palate).Detailed clinical examination and anthropometric measurements-weight, height and mid arm circumference was recorded. Results: The mean age of admitted patients was 5.03 ± 1.18 months.Majority of the cases, i.e. 24 (80%) were Hindus and amongthem 18 (60%) were living in rural area. 26 (86.66%) patients belong to lower socioeconomic scale(III,IV&V) and only4(13.33%)patients belonged to socioeconomic scale I and II. Fever was the most common presenting complaint in 21 (70 %) patients, followed by vomiting in 15 (50 %), loose motion in 15 (50%) and loss of appetite or weight loss in 10 (30%) patients. 18 (62.06%) were stunted at this time, and 11 (38%) severely stunted. Conclusion: We concluded that many factors such as literacy, income, age of marriage and sanitation facility indirectly or directly influence the nutritional status of infants
A Hospital Based Prospective Study to Evaluate the Outcome of Very Low Birth Weight (VLBW) Neonates Discharged from District Hospital
Get PDFBackground: Birth weight is the most important determinant of perinatal, neonatal and postnatal outcomes. The main reason for increasing morbidity & mortality in VLBW neonates is due to their physiologic & metabolic immaturity. The aim of this study to assessed the morbidity and mortality profile in very low birth weight neonates in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in District hospital in Rajasthan. Materials& Methods: A hospital based prospective observational study was conducted in the Department of Pediatrics, District hospital, Dholpur, Rajasthan, India during one year period. All VLBW neonates were included in the study after getting written informed consent from the parents for using their neonates’ clinical data for the study purpose. All VLBW neonates admitted in our NICU were enrolled in the study. Relevant details were collected which includes maternal details like their age, address, socioeconomic status, educational status, maternal weight, risk factors, gestational age, Antenatal steroids, premature rupture of membranes, mode of delivery and Baby’s details include their sex, need of resuscitation, Apgar score, gestational age, birth weight and their illness, need of mechanical ventilation and surfactant therapy were recorded. Results: Our study showed that maternal age < 18 years were 2 (2%) and most of the mothers were in the age 18-21 years – 35 (35%). Maternal hypertension being the most common cause for VLBW babies. Place of birth, mode of delivery and gender had no correlation with outcome of very low birth weight neonates (P=0.082, p=0.076, P=0.067 respectively). There is significant association of gestational age with outcome of very low birth weight neonates (P<0.05*). Conclusion: Prematurity is the primary cause behind this neonatal death. This emphasizes the need to prevent preterm deliveries. Effective preventive strategies to decrease the preterm birth can only be the next big step to decrease the perinatal morbidity rate of our state
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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