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Marinette Extermann. Marc Briquet. - Oeuvres pour orgue, GALLO CD 734, Harmonie distribution
No full textWeber Edith. Marinette Extermann. Marc Briquet. - Oeuvres pour orgue, GALLO CD 734, Harmonie distribution. In: Cahiers de sociologie économique et culturelle, n°20, 1993. p. 155
Fatigue and functional dependence in older cancer patients
No full textFunctional dependence is a costly manifestation of aging that compromises the quality of life of elderly individuals and their caregivers. In this study, we hypothesized that fatigue may be a cause of functional dependence in older cancer patients. To establish whether fatigue was associated with dependence in 1 or more activities of daily living (ADLs) or instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs), and declining performance status (PS). In addition, we studied the prevalence of fatigue and its correlation with anemia, depression, and nutritional status. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Retrospective cross-sectional study of 214 patients aged 70 and older were seen over a 3-month period by the Senior Adult Oncology Program of the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, FL. Each patient was screened with a questionnaire assessing ADLs, IADLs, PS, cognitive impairment, depression, and malnutrition. In addition, each patient underwent assessment of fatigue with the fatigue symptom inventory and a determination of complete blood counts and complete chemical panel. RESULTS: Fatigue was reported by 81% of the patients. The interference score of fatigue seemed to be a mediator for dependencies in ADLs and IADLs (P < 0.001 and 0.001), and poorer PS (P < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: Fatigue is a common chronic problem for older cancer patients and may represent a major cause of functional dependence
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe 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
MAX2 - A convenient index to estimate the average per patient risk for chemotherapy toxicity: Validation in ECOG trials
No full textCancer patients, especially the elderly, present with a highly variable susceptibility to toxicity from chemotherapy. To estimate correctly a patient’s risk for toxicity, both the average toxicity of a chemotherapy regimen and patient-related variables need to be assessed. However, treatment toxicities are typically reported item by item, not summarised per patient. We tested an index derived from a pilot study, the MAX2, on the ECOG database. Studies including 20 or more patients aged 70 years and older per arm were selected. Four studies were identified, representing 2526 patients, 410 (16%) being elderly. The association of the MAX2 index with the per patient incidence of grade 4 haematological and/or grade 3 or 4 non-haematological toxicity was highly significant, both for the overall group and for the elderly subgroup. The MAX2 index is a convenient and reproducible way of comparing the average per patient risk for toxicity from chemotherapy across several regimens
MAX2: a convenient index to estimate the average per patient risk of severe toxicity from a chemotherapy regimen. Testing in ECOG studies (Abstract)
No full textAbstract 1459, May 200
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
Dr. Edward P. Wimberly, ITC, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Edward P. Wimberly. Dr. Wimberly talks about his book, "No Shame in Wesley's Gospel: A Twenty-First Century Pastoral Gospel". Brad Ost, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
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