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Investigating recovery following lung cancer radiotherapy: testing the feasibility of establishing a prospective cohort
No full textTesting the feasibility of establishing a cohort of lung cancer patients to investigate recovery following radiotherapy with curative intent
No full textIntroduction: Following a successful pilot study of patients treated surgically, we are conducting an innovative project to test the feasibility of establishing a cohort of patients treated with curative intent radiotherapy. We are assessing patient reported outcomes (PROMS) to understand recovery of health and wellbeing and a range of factors associated with this. We have little information about the needs and wellbeing of patients who undergo curative treatment and there is insufficient evidence to guide the development of services to support patients after treatment and to identify those at risk of protracted recovery. Methods: A prospective, longitudinal cohort study design is employed. Eligible patients due to undergo radiotherapy with curative intent between October 2015 and April 2016 at six sites across the UK are eligible to participate. Participants complete questionnaires before treatment and three months later. Questionnaires include validated PROMs, across a number of domains, including quality of life, recovery, wellbeing and socio-demographic details. Participants’ clinical details are also collected. Study procedures will be evaluated using semi-structured interviews with patient participants and local site staff.Results: We will assess the feasibility of recruiting a consecutive sample of eligible patients and retaining these patients for the duration of the study. Feasibility assessment will also be informed by interview data gathered on the acceptability of the study procedures, the questionnaires and the methods for gathering medical details.Conclusion: This study will test the feasibility of a cohort of patients to asses wellbeing and understand patterns of recovery, this will inform a large (n=1000) UK wide cohort study of patients undergoing treatment with curative intent (radiotherapy and surgery) we plan to follow patients for a number of years. This novel approach to understanding lung cancer survival will enhance our ability to offer patients appropriate and timely support and identify who is most at risk of protracted recovery
Клинические рекомендации по диагностике и ведению больных со злокачественной мезотелиомой плевры (часть 1-я)
Full text linkAdopted from: Woolhouse I., Bishop L., Darlison L., De Fonseka D., Edey A., Edwards J., Faivre-Finn C., Fennell D.A., Holmes S., Kerr K.M., Nakas A., Peel T., Rahman N.M., Slade M., Steele J., Tsim S., Maskell N.A. British Thoracic Society Guideline for the investigation and management of malignant pleural mesothelioma. Thorax. 2018; 73 (Suppl. 1): i1–i30. DOI: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2017-211321.По материалам: Woolhouse I., Bishop L., Darlison L., De Fonseka D., Edey A., Edwards J., Faivre-Finn C., Fennell D.A., Holmes S., Kerr K.M., Nakas A., Peel T., Rahman N.M., Slade M., Steele J., Tsim S., Maskell N.A. British Thoracic Society Guideline for the investigation and management of malignant pleural mesothelioma. Thorax. 2018; 73 (Suppl. 1): i1–i30. DOI: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2017-211321
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
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