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Quantitative histopathology in congenital myopathies
No full textA histo-morphometric analysis has been carried out in 23 muscle biopsies obtained from patients with congenital myopathies (6 nemaline m., 10 centronuclear m., 4 central core m., 3 multicore m.) in order to improve diagnosis and to confirm the data available in literature. No relationship has been found between the severity of the disease and the histo-pathological features as previously described. Nevertheless, the following pathological aspects diverge from previous reports: a) the absence of rods within the nuclei and of mitochondrial abnormalities in nemaline myopathy; b) the presence of type I fiber hypertrophy and of mitochondrial alterations in 30% of the patients with centronuclear myopathy; c) the presence of cores even in type II fibers, mitochondrial abnormalities, nucleosis, inflammatory cellular reaction and fibrosis in addition to the absence of rods in central core myopathy; d) the type I fiber hypertrophy in all patients with multicore myopathy
The role of life events in the myasthenia gravis outcome: a one‐year longitudinal study
No full textABSTRACT— We examined 51 patients suffering from myasthenia gravis (MG) and studied the relevance of stressful life events in relation to the course of the disease. Life events were assessed by means of the Paykel's Interview for Recent Life Events. The stage severity of MG was assessed by means of the Osserman and Genkins scale, twice per patient, at one year intervals. Simultaneously, life events were assessed for the 12 months preceding each of the 2 assessments of MG. Over the 2 MG evaluations 16 patients improved, 6 worsened and in 29 no change took place. Using life events data collected at the first interview, and applying a prospective design, no difference was found between patients who improved and those who remained unchanged or worsened. Life events reported at the second interview, as having occurred during the inter‐assessment year, and collected according to a retrospective design, were significantly fewer in improvers than in non‐improvers. Copyright © 1989, Wiley Blackwell. All rights reserve
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
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
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