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The Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program improves psychological and physiological indicators of stress
No full textIncreasing evidence suggests that chronic psychosocial stress enhances oxidative stress, which may contribute to the aetiology of many lifestyle-related degenerative diseases. Mindfulness practice is defined as “paying attention in an intentional and non-judgmental way to the present moment”. Past studies investigating the link between Mindfulness and stress response demonstrated that the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program is a stress management protocol that has beneficial effects on emotional and psychological responses to stressors. In contrast, there are fewer studies of its effect on physiological parameters.
In this study, we evaluated the effectiveness of the MBSR program on a sample of 39 people analyzing blood pressure, carotenoids plasma concentration, salivary cortisol, and IL-6 and IL-8 levels, before and after a MBSR training. Levels of perceived stress, anxiety, and awareness were assessed by the Perceived Stress Scale, State Anxiety Inventory, and Mindful Attention Awareness Scale questionnaires. Wilcoxon test was used for statistical analysis (P < 0.05). Our results indicate that MBSR training significantly improves both psychological and physiological parameters.
The carotenoid data is particularly interesting because recent research has shown the possible preventive and protective effects of β-carotene on oxidative stress, inflammation, and apoptosis. Further studies on redox-related mechanisms are needed to better evaluate MBSR systemic effects
Can functional reorganization of area 17 following monocular deprivation be modified by GM1 internal ester treatment?
No full textParticipation of a Chloride Conductance in the Subthreshold Behavior of the Rat Sympathetic Neuron
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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
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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