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CBF changes after (-)eburnamonine infusion in patients with cerebrovascular insufficiency
No full textThe authors have made a study of CBF after (-)eburnamonine infusion, during angiographic examination of 6 patients with cerebrovascular insufficiency, for a hemodynamic evaluation of the drug efficacy on CBF. The measurement of CBF was done by 133Xe according to the method of Lassen and Ingvar. A correlation between clinical findings, angiographic findings and CBF changes was done to state the employment of (-)eburnamonine in patients with cerebrovascular insufficiency
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
Treatment of chronic patellar tendinosis with buffered platelet rich plasma : a preliminary study
No full textEight athletes considering surgical intervention for chronic patellar tendinosis that was recalcitrant to conservative physical therapy and a variety of non-operative treatments were recruited into the study. Following pre-injection MRI imaging and VISA score assessment, patients received a single injection of PRP (Platelet-Rich Plasma). Patients were given individualized rehabilitation protocols and followed until a final assessment at 120 days post-injection.
Seven of the eight patients were assessed at the final follow-up, with all of them demonstrating an improvement on the VISA score. One patient elected to have surgical intervention prior to the final follow-up and was not included in the analysis. The average VISA score at the final assessment was 75.0 compared to a pre-injection average of 39.25. This represented a 91% of average improvement in the VISA score (p<0.001). MRI images at the final follow-up demonstrated a noticeable reduction in irregularity of the affected tendon compared to pre-injection images for 80% of the treated tendons.
Treatment of chronic patellar tendinosis in a series of athletes resulted in a statistically significant improvement in VISA score for seven of the eight patients treated. Pre and post-injection MRI demonstrated reduced irregularity in eighty percent of the injected tendons. Further evaluation of this treatment is warrante
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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