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Procesamiento de la actividad eléctrica cardíaca basado en modelos biológicos y matemáticos: detección y cuantificación de riesgo cardíaco
No full textGrado obtenido: Doctor de la Universidad de Buenos AiresDisciplina: IngenieríaFil: Cruces, Pablo Daniel. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de IngenieríaInstituto de Ingeniería Biomédica, Facultad de Ingeniería – UBA. Instituto Argentino de Matemática "Alberto P. Calderón" – CONICE
Metodología de alta sensibilidad para diagnóstico de infartos
Full text linkCada año más del 30% de las defunciones son consecuencia de enfermedades cardiovasculares, representando la mayor causa de muerte en Argentina. De todas las patologías, la más común resulta ser el síndrome coronario agudo – daño, isquemia, infarto. Los métodos actuales de diagnóstico combinan estudios enzimáticos, efectivos sólo pocas horas luego del surgimiento de síntomas, e índices electrocardiográficos de baja sensibilidad. Las limitaciones presentes reducen la efectividad en la detección rápida impidiendo eventualmente un tratamiento temprano. En nuestra investigación se ha desarrollado un modelo matemático novedoso que cuantifica la velocidad angular del vector eléctrico cardíaco mediante el procesamiento digital del vectorcardiograma en el cuerpo de los cuaterniones. Dicha velocidad está directamente relacionada a los caminos de conducción eléctrica del miocardio y su combinación con las velocidades lineales clásicas ha permitido el hallazgo de índices de muy alta sensibilidad y especificidad para el diagnóstico de infartos. La eficiencia y robustez del método permiten su simple aplicación a registradores Holter capaces de ser adquiridos por hospitales de bajos recursos. Esto generaría posibilidades de costo reducido para detectar tempranamente enfermedades cardíacas. Además, sería útil en el seguimiento de pacientes a largo plazo, mejorando significativamente los métodos preventivos locales.Fil: Cruces, Pablo Daniel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Instituto Argentino de Matemática Alberto Calderón; ArgentinaFil: Arini, Pedro David. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Instituto Argentino de Matemática Alberto Calderón; Argentin
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
A novel method for cardiac vector velocity measurement: Evaluation in myocardial infarction
No full textBackground and objective: Pathological alterations provoked by myocardial infarction cause slow conduction by increasing axial resistance on coupling between cells. This issue may cause abnormal patterns in the dynamics of the tip of the cardiac vector. Methods: In this work, we have developed a method to compute the angular velocity during ventricular repolarization from Frank XYZ leads, using the concept of quaternion. This parameter jointly with the linear velocity obtained by differentiation and the spatial velocity reported by others during ventricular depolarization, have been combined in order to design a myocardial infarction detector (so-called index of cardiac vector velocity: ICVV) with high values of sensitivity and specificity simultaneously. Results: The predictive power of ICVV has been tested in two groups: patients with less than 7 days after infarction, achieving 98% of sensitivity and 97% of specificity; and patients with more than 45 days after infarction, achieving 92% of sensitivity without loss of specificity. The former group is important for early detection of myocardial infarction and begins treatment in a short period of time on emergency department. The latter involves the evaluation of the cardiac vector velocity after the period of post-infarction electrical remodeling which may be useful in the follow-up of patients. Conclusions: We have concluded that this method extends the concept of cardiac vector velocity and may be useful in the diagnosis of myocardial infarction.Fil: Cruces, Pablo Daniel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Instituto Argentino de Matemática Alberto Calderón; ArgentinaFil: Arini, Pedro David. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Instituto Argentino de Matemática Alberto Calderón; Argentin
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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