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SGA children: auxological and metabolic outcomes. The role of GH treatment.
No full textThe definition Small for Gestational Age (SGA) describes those newborns weighing and/or
measuring in length52 SD than expected for their gestational age. These subjects are at
higher risk of short stature, neonatal complications, alterations of glucose, lipid metabolism,
body composition, bone metabolism and puberty, neurocognitive vulnerabilities and
alterations of the GH-IGF-I axis. With regards to growth, in 85–90% of the cases children
born SGA experience a period of catch up growth that allows them to achieve an adult stature
within normal range. In a 10–15% of the cases, the catch up growth period does not take place
and this entails short stature in adulthood. In the latter group, GH treatment may be considered
to achieve adult height in the range of genetical target stature. With reference to glucose and
lipid metabolism, young adults born SGA and particularly those with early catch up growth are
at higher risk of developing insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes mellitus, arterial hypertension,
dyslipidemia, overweight, obesity and metabolic syndrome. Subjects born SGA are in need of a
correct diagnostic and eventually therapeutic approach
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
Vitamin D in the perinatal period: an update
No full textVitamin D is a pleiotropic hormone modulating calcium and phosphorous
metabolism. Numerous extraskeletal functions of vitamin D have been shown
in recent years and the role of an adequate vitamin D status during pregnancy
in terms of benefits for mother and child has been investigated. Presumed
effects on pregnancy course include reduction in risk of pre-eclampsia,
caesarian and preterm delivery and gestational diabetes mellitus. Short term
outcomes in the offspring such as skeletal development, birthweight, and
incidence of infections have also been postulated. Finally, long term effects
of maternal vitamin D status during pregnancy on infant and child health
would include bone health, neurodevelopment and incidence of asthma,
infections and autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes mellitus. As
vitamin D deficiency is widespread among pregnant women all over the
world, supplementation during pregnancy is a hot topic in literature, also in
the light of these recent acquisitions. This review will summarize the most
recent advances in this field
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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