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DREAM Dutch Randomised Endovascular Aneurysm Management Trial.
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47943.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)RU Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 09 september 2005Promotores : Blankensteijn, J.D., Grobbee, D.E. Co-promotor : Buskens, E.158 p
The prevalence and incidence of pressure ulcers in hospitalised patients in The Netherlands: a prospective inception cohort study
No full textBackground: Pressure ulcers frequently occur in hospitalised patients. The prevalence of pressure ulcers grade 2 orworse varies from 3% to 12% in hospitalised patients. Incidence figures are not frequently reported. While incidenceand prevalence are both measures of disease frequency, they provide different perspectives on pressure ulcers.Objectives: To describe the incidence rate and prevalence of pressure ulcers in hospitalised patients.Design: Prospective inception cohort study.Setting: Two large hospitals, one general (530-beds) and one teaching (1042-beds), in The Netherlands.Participants: A non-selected, though not strictly random, sample of 1536 patients was eligible for inclusion in thestudy. One thousand four hundred and thirty one patients (93.2%) consented to participate. Eventually, 1229 patients(80%) had a complete follow-up. The sample consisted of patients admitted to the surgical, internal, neurological andgeriatric wards for more than 5 days between January 1999 and June 2000.Methods: Follow-up once a week until pressure ulcer occurrence, discharge or length of stay over 12 weeks.Main outcome measures: Occurrence of a pressure ulcer grade 2 or worse during admission to hospital, according to theclassification of the European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel.Results: One hundred and thirty four patients developed 172 pressure ulcers during follow-up. The overall weeklyincidence rate was 0.06 per week (95% confidence interval 0.05–0.07 per week). Highest rates were observed for surgicalpatients and lowest for geriatric and neurologic patients (0.08 and 0.02, respectively). The week specific prevalencevaried between 12.8% and 20.3%.Conclusions: Among patients hospitalised for more than 5 days overall one may expect 6% per week to developpressure ulcers. It would appear that any preventive measures can only be effective if taken timely. Accordingly, preventive measures should be considered early, because pressure ulcers were observed already within the first week ofadmission
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
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
Author, publisher and bookseller : a tripartite synergy in Nigerian book industry
Get PDFThis work is about the roles of Author, Publisher and Bookseller in Book development in
Nigeria. The paper started by delving into the history of Book Publishing in Nigeria after
which it proceeded by defining who an author, a publisher, and a bookseller is and
expatiated on the indispensable roles of these key actors in Nigerian Book Industry and in
the emerging Information Society. Furthermore, the various constraints to book
development were identified while the paper advised on how the Book Industry can be
further promoted in Nigeria. However, the paper concluded and made recommendations
on how the Book sector can help in enhancing scholarship in the country
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #2]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #1]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
Mining e-mail content for author identification forensics
No full textWe describe an investigation into e-mail content mining for author identification, or authorship attribution, for the purpose of forensic investigation. We focus our discussion on the ability to discriminate between authors for the case of both aggregated e-mail topics as well as across different email topics. An extended set of e-mail document features including structural characteristics and linguistic patterns were derived and, together with a Support Vector Machine learning algorithm, were used for mining the e-mail content. Experiments using a number of e-mail documents generated by different authors on a set of topics gave promising results for both aggregated and multi-topic author categorisation
Islamic studies in the 21st century
No full textCover -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Dichotomies, Transformations, and Continuities in the Study of Islam -- Léon Buskens -- Islamic Texts -- The Anthropologist as Reader -- Brinkley Messick -- Textual Aspects of Religious Authority in Premodern Islam -- Jonathan P. Berkey -- What to Do with Ritual Texts -- Islamic Fiqh Texts and the Study of Islamic Ritual -- A. Kevin Reinhart -- Textual Study of Gender -- Marion Katz -- Scholarship on Gender Politics in the Muslim World -- Some Critical Reflections -- Dorothea E. Schulz -- Power, Orthodoxy, and Salvation in Classical Islamic Theology -- Christian Lange -- Dialectical Theology in the Search for Modern Islam -- Abdulkader Tayob -- â Classicalâ Islamic Legal Theory as Ideology -- Nasr Abu Zaydâ s Study of al-ShafiÊ¿iâ s al-Risala -- Muhammad Khalid Masud -- Islamic Law in the Modern World -- States, Laws, and Constitutions -- Knut S. Vikør -- Vernacular Cosmopolitanism as an Ethical Disposition -- Sufi Networks, Hospitality, and Translocal Inclusivity -- Pnina Werbner -- Middle Eastern Studies and Islam -- Oscillations and Tensions in an Old Relationship -- Léon Buskens -- Notes on Contributors -- Overview of NISIS Autumn Schools, 2010-2014 -- IndexIncludes bibliographical references and indexIntroduction: Dichotomies, transformations, and continuities in the study of IslamIslamic texts : the anthropologist as readerTextual aspects of religious authority in premodern IslamWhat to do with ritual texts : Islamic Fiqh texts and the study of Islamic ritualTextual study of genderScholarship on gender politics in the Muslim worldPower, orthodoxy, and salvation in classical Islamic theologyDialectical theology in the search for modern Islam"Classical" Islamic legal theory as ideology : Nasr Abu Zayd's study of al-Shafi'i's al-RisalaIslamic law in the modern world : Sufi networks, hospitality, and translocal inclusivityMiddle eastern studies and Islam : oscillations and tensions in an old relationshi
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