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Dog and cat Dermatophytoses: eleven years of diagnostic activity at the laboratory of Mycology
No full textThis paper presents a survey, limited to dogs and cats, on the results obtained from the epidemiological analysis of 11 years data (January 2000/December 2010) of routine dermatophytoses diagnostic activities, developed at the Laboratory of Mycology of the Department of Veterinary Medical Science (Ozzano Emilia-Bologna). The aim was to observe the possible evolution over time of an important pathology for aesthetic, clinical, economic and, not least, social impact, because of ringworm of dogs and cats can be zoonotic infections.
A total of 3778 animals (1518 dogs and 2260 cats) with lesions or asymptomatic were examined. The samples were collected by skin scarification or brush’s technique and sent to our laboratory from vets or collected directly at the facilities of the Department. Diagnosis of ringworm was made by culture on Mycosel agar (BBL), incubated at least 10 days at 26 ° C. The identification of dermatophytes was performed on the basis of macro- and microscopic characteristics (Rebell and Taplin, 1974, Dermatophytes, their recognition and identification, University of Miami Press). Records for individual subjects were collected in a database and the data obtained were analyzed: χ2 test was used to compare the presence/absence of M. canis with different host characteristics (breed, sex, age, origin, clinical state, i.e. presence/absence of lesions), and year.
RESULTS -: Cats were significantly (p<0.01) more infected with dermatophytes (32%) than dogs (7.5%). Microsporum canis was more frequently isolated (30.6% cats and 4.5% dogs). Other dermatophytes were isolates, alone or in some cases in association with M. canis: these were mainly M.gypseum (1.7% dog and 0.7% cats) and T. mentagrophytes (1.2% dogs and 0.2% cats); occasionally also T. terrestre and M. cookei were found. For M.canis, the number of asymptomatic carriers were significantly (p <0.01) higher in cats (69%) than in dogs (2.8%). Persian cats were significantly related to a higher prevalence of M. canis than other cats breed, while as regards to the dogs, there was impossible to obtain this data due to the high variability of the examined breeds. The prevalence of M. canis was significantly greater in young animals (<12 months) than in older individuals and in females cats than males cats (p <0.01), whereas no sex differences were found in dogs. Feral cats were significantly more positive (p <0.01) compared to owned cats. The owners of cats positive for M. canis had more frequently ringworm (21.5%) that the owner of dogs positive (13.2%), but the difference was not significan
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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