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National scientific associations should have a key role in adapting and implementing standard of care guidelines in European countries
No full text: Braggion C, Alatri F, Conese M, Festini F, Gagliardini R, Raia V, Seia M, Taccetti G; Executive Committee of the Italian Cystic Fibrosis Society. Related Articles, Links National scientific associations should have a key role in adapting and implementing standard of care guidelines in European countries. J Cyst Fibros. 2005 Dec;4(4):271-2. Epub 2005 Oct 25. No abstract available
Management of totally implantable vascular access devices in patients with cystic fibrosis
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Febrile seizures: management and know-how
No full textregarding in particular the quality of the information parents receive.
Material and methods A survey has been sent to primary care paediatricians, hospital
paediatricians, in training paediatricians and paediatric nurses. The survey started
from a clinical scenario (a 18 months old girl at her first febrile seizure). Information
regarded: a) the incidence of febrile seizures between 6 months and 5 years of age; b)
the probability of a second seizure; c) the efficacy of antipiretycs in the prevention of
febrile seizures; d) the use of rectal diazepam in recurrent febrile seizures; e) electroencephalography
indications.
Results Data has been collected by 1025 health professionals: 162 hospital paediatricians,
604 primary care paediatricians, 92 paediatricians in training, 167 paediatric
nurses. Only 45% answered correctly all the questions; 64% answered correctly the
question regarding the incidence of febrile seizures (3-5%); 58% gave a correct
answer to the question regarding the recurrence (20-30%); 75% answered correctly
the question on the efficacy of antipyretics in the prevention; 75% think that diazepam
by rectal administration should be used if the seizures lasts more than 1-2 minutes;
81% think that there are no indications for electroencephalography.
Conclusions The research has strong limits due to the sample selection. The results, considering
their limits, show a discreet knowledge of health professionals. Guidelines
should be shared by all health professionals considering that less than 50% answered
correctly all questions. Parents should receive correct information based on guidelines
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
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