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Method for diagnosis vaginal infections
The present invention relates to diagnostic methods involving the use of specific proteins for evaluating vaginal infections. The invention further relates to treatment of such infections with antibiotics, in particular rifaximin at different dosages, and evaluating recovery from the infections after treatment. The invention also relates to a
non-invasive method for predicting a cure and remission from vaginal infections following antibiotic treatment by the use of specific proteins
Composizioni farmaceutiche comprendenti rifaximina, processi per la loro preparazione e loro uso nel trattamento di infezioni vaginali
L’oggetto dell’invenzione è costituito da composizioni a rilascio controllato, comprendenti granuli di rifaximina insieme con eccipienti farmaceuticamente accettabili, caratterizzate da rilasciare rifaximina in modo controllato nella vagina. Sono descritti anche processi per la loro preparazione e loro uso nel trattamento di infezioni vaginali, in particolare, vaginosi batteriche. Sono inoltre descritti i dosaggi di rifaximina utili ed efficaci per il raggiungimento della guarigione dalla malattia e prevenzione di recidive
Pharmaceutical compositions comprising rifaximin, processes for their preparation and their use in the treatment of vaginal infections
The invention relates generally to pharmaceutical compositions comprising rifaximin effective at treating vaginal infections, and in particular bacterial vaginosis. The pharmaceutical compositions comprising rifaximin granules are characterized in that they release rifaximin in the vagina in a controlled way. The present invention also relates to processes for preparations of the rifaximin pharmaceutical compositions and their use in the treatment of vaginal infections. Effective dosages and courses of treatment useful and effective at recovering from the disease and preventing any possible relapse are also provided
Identification of vaginal bacteria
The present invention relates to a method for diagnosing vaginal infections and for evaluating the efficacy of treatment of vaginal infection detecting the presence or absence of one or more vaginal bacteria in a vaginal fluid sample. The method is also useful for evaluating the relapse after the end of antibiotic treatment
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
The 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
“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
We 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
We 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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