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Functional Reach and touch: how sense of movement disorders can influence Anticipatory Postural Adjustment?
No full textBackground: Sense of movement disorders (SMDs), as result
of the failure of a complex multisensorial process involving
the proprioceptive, visual, somaesthetic, and vestibular systems
(A Berthoz 1997), are very frequent in children with
cerebral palsy (CP) and negatively influence motor function-
ing and postural control. The most frequent signs are: exaggerated
and low threshold startle reaction, freezing posture,
blinking or closing eyes, visual attention shifting, and facial
grimaces. Diplegic children with SMDs show panic reactions
to mild postural perturbations and are therefore unable to
execute common tasks successfully, such as reaching and
touching an object. Postural adjustments depend on motor
reactions as well as on perception but perception has a leading
role in anticipation.
Objectives: We wanted to investigate how SMDs negatively
influence anticipatory postural adjustments (APA).
Method: A group of 14 children with diplegia were selected
according to the following criteria: aged 6–15 years, acquired
walking, no major differences at GMFCS, and no major sensorial
or cognitive deficit. Eight were diagnosed positive for
SMDs (according to the mentioned clinical signs), six did not
have SMDs, and five normal participants matched for age
were selected for the control group. The experimental setting
consisted of a functional reach and touch task in the sitting
position on an adjustable stool, a force platform
registered the centre of pressure. A small ball target was
placed at a distance of 120% of arms’ length and at 45 ̊ of
abduction. The child sat with feet on a foot rest. The stool
was set at two levels: ground and raised.
Results: APAs are indicated by a backward shifting of centre of
pressure with respect to the reaching direction before the
start of the gesture. The presence of APAs according to group
were: SMD, ground 42%, raised 36%; non-SMD ground 83%,
raised 78%; controls, ground 93%, raised 93%.
Discussion: The diplegic group with SMD has significantly
fewer APAs than both the controls and non-SMD group. The
height of the stool seems to influence APAs within the same
group but we did not have enough statistical evidence (ttest).
Data seem to support the hypothesis that SMDs influence
negatively anticipatory postural control and this can
reduce autonomy levels in action
Come il disturbo percettivo influenza la performance motoria in un compito di functional reach and touch nel paziente diplegico pci
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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
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