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Chondroplasty using radiofrequency energy in the treatment of knee degenerative arthritis
No full textV ÖZET Engin Murat, 'Diz dejeneratif artrit olgularında radyofrekans enerjisi kullanarak kondroplasti uygulaması'. Kırıkkale Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Ortopedi ve Travmatoloji Anabilim Dalı Uzmanlık Tezi. Kırıkkale 2005. Diz dejeneratif artriti (osteoartroz) özellikle yaşlı nüfusu etkileyen, en sık görülen eklem hastalığıdır (1). Genetik faktörler önemli rol oynamasına rağmen, şişmanlık aşın kullanma ve yaşlanma önemli nedenlerdendir (1). Eklem kıkırdağında yumuşama, fazla yük taşıyan yüzeylerde zamanla kıkırdağın erozyonu, subkondral kemiğin açığa çıkması, ilerleyen evrelerde subkondral kemikle erozyon ve kalınlaşma gibi patolojik değişiklikler olur. Başlangıçta uzun süre sessiz seyreden hastalık daha sonra devamlı ağrı ve fonksiyon kaybı ile kişinin yaşam kalitesini bozar (1,2). Bu çalışmanın amacı diz dejeneratif artriti olgularında radyofrekans enerjisi ile yapılan kondroplastinin klinik ve radyolojik etkinliğini araştırmaktır. Radyofrekans (RF) enerjisi ile artroskopik kondroplasti yeni ve sağlam bir yüzey yaratarak eklem kıkırdağındaki ilerleyen hasarı durdurur. Bu sayede eklem içine dökülen parçacıklar ve inflamatuar mediatörler azalır, daha etkin ve uzun süreli semptomatik iyileşme sağlanır, tezinden yola çıkıldı. RF enerjisi ile kondroplasti ve diğer artroskopik girişimler (menisektomi, doku ablasyonu, büzüştürme) sıkça kullanılmakla beraber uzun süreli etkileri ve sonuçlan tam olarak bilinmemektedir. Bu çalışmada RF enerjisi ile kondroplastinin etkilerini araştınldı. Kliniğimize başvuran 39-70 yaş arası, 6 aydan uzun süre diz ağrısı olan, konservatif tedaviye cevap vermemiş, sistemik hastalığı olmayan, diz dejeneratif artritinin erken radyolojik bulgulan saptanmış, mekanik takılma semptomdan olan, diz içi en az bir kompartımanda Outerbridge evre 2-3 kıkırdak lezyonu olan, alt ekstremite dizilim bozukluğu olmayan 20 olgu çalışmaya alındı. Çalışmamızda, kısıtlı sayıda olguya rağmen RF enerjisi ile Outerbridge evre 2-3 kondral defektlere yapılan artroskopik debridman ve kondroplastinin kısa dönem sonuçlannm klinik ve radyolojik olarak iyi sonuçlar verdiği saptandı. Anahtar kelimeler: Radyofrekans enerjisi, kondroplasti, artroskopi, dizVI ABSTRACT Engin Murat, 'Chondroplasty using radiofrequency energy in the treatment of knee degenerative arthritis'. University of Kırıkkale, School of Medicine, Department of Orthopedics and Travmatology, Thesis, Kırıkkale, 2005. Degenerative knee arthritis (gonarthrosis), especially effects elderly population, is one of the most commonly seen joint disorders. Genetic factors important but also overweight, overuse and older ages are important factors. Softening of the articular cartilage and erosion of the cartilage, at last subchondral bone tissue exposed intraartiküler space. The results of the process are thinning of the cartilage and erosion of the subchondral bone. At the beginning of the disease, the process is slow and silent but later continuous pain, functional loss, lowering life quality are seen (1). There are many middle age and older patients applied to our clinics with knee osteoarthriritis. We consider how we can help these patients of degenerative knee arthritis using knee arthroscopy. Is there any alternative method enhancing arthroscopic debridement to increase its positive effects and decrease the progression of the disease. Chondroplasty with radiofrequency energy (RF) is produced a stable resurfaces and decrease the progressive destruction of articular cartilage. Because of these particles from the cartilage which produces inflammatory reactions reduces inflammatory mediators decrease and long symptomatic relieve is achieved according to our thesis. Chondroplasty with RF and other procedures (menicectomy, tissue ablation and shrinkage) can be applied. But a long term results of this procedure doesn't known exactly. We evaluate the results of chondroplasty with RF energy. 20 patients who have knee pain over 6 months ages between 35-70, with no axis deviation in the lower extremities, with mechanical symptoms of looking, no response to conservative treatment, and diagnosis of knee degenerative arthritis were included to the study. Clinic and radiologic short term results of arthroscopic debridement and chondroplasty with RF energy are sufficient in the treatment of early stages of knee degenerative arthritis. Key Words: Radiofrequency, chondroplasti, arthroscopy, knee
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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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