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Improving Adherence to Mediterranean Diet to prevent or reduce Metabolic Syndrome in Heart Transplanted Patients
Full text linkThe Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) is a multi-factorial condition, which enhances the risk to develop chronic related diseases. Despite many advances in patients’ management and pharmacological treatment, MetS represents a real burden in heart transplanted (HTx) patients, mainly due to the side effects of immunosuppressive therapy which severely affects their long-term outcomes. The improvement of dietary habits seems to represent an effective strategy to reduce the MetS in general population, decreasing the cardiovascular risk factors. Among all, number of studies associate the Mediterranean diet (MedDiet) to a reduction of cardiovascular incidence and of all-cause mortality. Unfortunately, dietary programs for the long-term period after HTx are not yet adequately provided in the routine follow-up of these patients.
The first Aim of this PhD research was to assess the prevalence of MetS in HTx patients at the University Hospital of Udine, since 2007, and evaluate the impact on the long-term outcome in terms of morbidity and mortality. Through a retrospective collection of clinical data, we observed that more than half (52%) of the patients were affected by MetS at 5 years of follow-up and that the early development of this condition, both before and within 1 year of HTx, were associated to a worst survival and to a higher risk to develop cardiac allograft vasculopathy.
Since the beneficial effects of MedDiet on cardiovascular risk factors, the second Aim of the project was to assess the adherence to the MedDiet of 143 HTx patients. Through the administration of a validated Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ) we observed an overall weak adherence to the MedDiet, together with an inadequate consumption of many healthy foods characteristic of this dietary pattern.
Finally, the Aim 3 was to evaluate any beneficial effect of a structured and personalized dietary intervention in a sample of HTx patients. Changes were compared at baseline and at each timepoint, within the intervention group and between the intervention and the control group, which followed general nutritional advices. The variables of interest were the adherence to the MedDiet, clinical, anthropometric, body composition and blood parameters data, and general dietary habits. Fifteen patients were recruited for the intervention group versus 13 in the control group. The comparison between intervention and control group occurred at baseline and at the intermediate meeting, after 6 months, reached by 11 patients of the intervention group versus and 10 patients of the control group. The analysis within the intervention group included also the final meeting, after 12 months, reached by 7 patients. The main findings were:
1) MedDiet adherence significantly increased in the intervention group during the study period, both comparing the intervention and the control group, and within the intervention group over the three timepoints;
2) moreover, parameters of body composition in the intervention group significantly changed over the study period, with a significant decrease of fat mass % and a subsequent increase of fat free mass %, and body cell mass %; also waist circumference decreased on average of -1.3±2.6cm. Furthermore, both blood pressure and renal function resulted significantly improved in the intervention group versus the control group, at the intermediate timepoint.
3) finally, dietary habits of the intervention group showed an improvement of macronutrients balance, a significant decrease of energy from saturated fatty acids and soluble sugars, and a positive trend to micronutrients intake.
Concluding, we confirmed that the implementation of a structured and personalized dietary programme may be feasible in HTx population and exerts many beneficial effects. The future goal will be to offer a nutritional education, in line with the MedDiet principles, to all HTx patients at the University Hospital of Udine
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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