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Injuries due to foreign body aspirations in Georgia: A prevention perspective
No full textBackground: Suffocation due to foreign bodies (FB) is a leading cause of death in children aged 0-3. No data from the former U.S.S.R. are available in the international scientific literature. Methods: Consecutive patients admitted at the Iashvili Central Children Hospital in Tbilisi, Georgia from 1989 to 2011 were analyzed. Injuries in the upper airways due to foreign bodies' inhalation were collected and compared with the Susy Safe Registry and the pooled estimates of the meta-analysis. Results: 2896 cases were collected. Distribution of injuries in children younger than 3 years was significantly higher than in the Susy Safe Registry and in the "High-Income" countries in the meta-analysis. Percentage of injuries due to organic objects (86%) was significantly higher than in published data. Conclusions: Since Georgia is not showing any substantial difference, both in epidemiology and treatment of foreign bodies injuries, as compared to the other case series, translation of public health initiatives from other most advanced prevention experiences is possible and it is likely to be effective. Level of evidence: Level V, Epidemiological case series. © 2015 Elsevier Ireland Ltd
Study of the Major Risk Factors Associated with Bronchial Asthma in Children in Georgia
Get PDFBronchial asthma is an important health problem worldwide. Identification of asthma risk factors is important in asthma management. A better study of risk factors provides an opportunity for primary prevention of asthma. Assessment of the symptoms, severity, and control of bronchial asthma in children living in different regions of Georgia, identification of the risk factors and their relationship to asthma severity, and asthma control.
Observational, cross-sectional study. Data were collected in 2017 - 2020 from M. Iashvili Children\u27s Central Hospital, as well as from Batumi and Zugdidi Referral Hospitals. In the research participated 507 children aged 2 to 18 diagnosed with asthma. The research tool was a set of questionnaires consisting of the following questionnaires: 1) General questionnaire - a basic, general questionnaire that included information about the asthma of the participants; 2) The Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory TM (Peds QL), Asthma Module (Version 3.0, Short Form (SF 22)). Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (Peds QL), Asthma Module (Version 3.0, Short Form (SF 22)); 3) The Peds QL Multidimensional Fatigue Scale; 4) The Peds QLTM Family Impact Module; 5) Asthma control test (ACT) or the childhood Asthma-Control Test (C-ACT);
Asthma severity and control are significantly associated with a genetic factor. Children whose mothers had bronchial asthma (31.6%) had a severe form of asthma, and children whose fathers had bronchial asthma made up 57.1%.
Being overweight is associated with both, asthma severity and asthma control. 1/3 of the overweight children had severe (18%) and moderate (12.6%) asthma. As for asthma control, 13.2% of the overweight patients had uncontrolled and 4.4% had partially controlled asthma.
In children with a smoking mother the incidence of a severe form of asthma is 6.25 times higher than in the case of a non-smoking mother. In smoking father, the incidence of severe asthma was 9.9 times higher than in the case of a non-smoking father. 33.7% of children of smoking mothers and 19% of smoking fathers were diagnosed with severe forms of asthma. As for asthma control, 17.3% of the children of smoking mothers had uncontrolled asthma, while the children of smoking fathers made up 16, 15%.
41.3 % had severe asthma with concomitant allergic diseases (4.9% of children with concomitant allergic rhinitis, 14.7% with food allergies, and 21.7% with mixed allergies). Uncontrolled forms were most often detected in children with concomitant mixed allergies (30.4%).
Home humidity, type of flooring, and type of fuel used were also associated with asthma severity and its control; the presence of dampness was strongly correlated with both severe forms of asthma as well as poor control. The presence of carpet was associated with more severity than control, and the presence of linoleum was associated with both severity and control. Severe asthma was correlated with firewood use.
Severe and uncontrolled forms of asthma were correlated with family income as well as parental education. Child asthma is a family burden; 100% of the parents of the participants said that they had difficulties in the family due to the child\u27s asthma, such as anxiety and depressive mood (63%), financial (12%), and other difficulties (25%).
Finally; Identification of risk factors plays an important role in controlling asthma. Correctly managed bronchial asthma ensures a reduction in the impact of asthma on the quality of life of both the child and the entire family
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
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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