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Role of fibrogenesis of gastroesophageal reflux and microaspiration in a patient with 12 years of radiologic follow-up
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Lung cancer histologic and immunohistochemical heterogeneity in the era of molecular therapies: analysis of 172 consecutive surgically resected, entirely sampled pulmonary carcinomas
No full textOn the basis of seminal studies in the 1980s, appreciable histologic heterogeneity, ranging from 45% to 70% of cases, may be encountered in lung cancer. However, the epidemiologic and histologic landscape of lung cancer in the last 3 decades has radically changed. In this study, 172 consecutive surgically resected primary lung carcinomas evaluated from 2010 to 2012 were entirely sampled and examined according to current histologic classifications. In 129 cases, a positive preoperative biopsy was also available. Major histologic heterogeneity (a single tumor showing at least 2 different histologic types) and minor histologic heterogeneity (a single tumor showing just 1 histologic type but at least 2 different growth patterns) were evaluated in all cases. Immunohistochemical heterogeneity (ie, "aberrant" staining) was also assessed using a panel of markers of adenocarcinoma (TTF-1, napsin, and CK7), squamous cell carcinoma (p63, CK5/6), and neuroendocrine differentiation (chromogranin and synaptophysin), both on positive biopsies and surgical specimens. Overall, major and minor histologic heterogeneity on resections were disclosed in 4% (7 cases) and 50.6% (87 cases), respectively, whereas just 1 case of minor heterogeneity (pleomorphic carcinoma) was observed on biopsies. Minor heterogeneity was limited to adenocarcinomas (82.6%, 81/98 cases) and sarcomatoid carcinomas (6 pleomorphic types among 8 sarcomatoid carcinomas). Immunohistochemical heterogeneity was recorded in 22.6% of the cases, with expression of p63 and CK5/6 in a subset of adenocarcinomas (25 cases, 25.5%), CK7 in 17.4% of squamous cell carcinomas, and synaptophysin in 6 cases of non-neuroendocrine tumors (4%, 6/155). The high rate of adenocarcinomas, accounting for 57% (98 cases) of 172 consecutively resected lung cancers, reflects the new scenario of thoracic oncology and may explain the significant lower rate of major histologic heterogeneity (4%) and the higher frequency of different architectural patterns (minor heterogeneity) that we found in lung cancer compared with previous studies
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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