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Worm passing from the mouth / Chee Yik Chang
Get PDFAn 18-year-old Rohingya woman, who was pregnant at 21 weeks, was admitted with a complaint of epigastric pain and nausea for two days. She is a Burmese refugee who has been in Malaysia for two years. She had previously eaten undercooked meat. Systematic examination was unremarkable. She was given intravenous fluids and symptomatic treatment, which included antacids and anti-emetics. She had one bout of vomiting in the ward and expelled a roundworm from her mouth. The worm was approximately 20 cm in length, and 5 mm in diameter, and it appeared elongated, cylindrical, and tapered at both ends (Figure 1). The worm was identified as an adult female Ascaris lumbricoides. Microscopic examination of the stool sample revealed the presence of fertilized eggs that are oval-shaped and surrounded by thick mammillated outer shell (Figure 2). She did not have intestinal obstruction, biliary ascariasis, or peripheral eosinophilia. She was given a single dose of albendazole 400 mg and was advised on proper food hygiene and sanitation
Periorbital cellulitis and eyelid abscess as ocular manifestations of melioidosis: A report of three cases in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo
No full textMelioidosis is an infection caused by the Gram-negative bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei. Melioidosis can affect any organ and result in a broad spectrum of diseases. Ocular involvement in melioidosis is rare but can potentially lead to devastating outcomes. We describe ocular manifestations in 3 patients diagnosed with culture-confirmed melioidosis in Kapit, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. Melioidosis affecting the eye can present as periorbital cellulitis and eyelid abscess. High clinical suspicion and early empirical treatment were crucial to a successful outcome. Surgical drainage of the abscess was an important part of management beyond standard antimicrobial therapy. Keywords: Melioidosis, Burkholderia pseudomallei, Periorbital cellulitis, Eyelid absces
Melioidosis presenting with periorbital cellulitis and eyelid abscess in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo - A Case Report
Get PDFMelioidosis is an infectious disease caused by the Gram-negative bacillus Burkholderia pseudomallei and presents with a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations and organ involvement. Ocular manifestation in melioidosis is rare. We present a case of periorbital cellulitis and eyelid abscess caused by B. pseudomallei in a diabetic patient successfully treated with antibiotic and surgical drainage.</p
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
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