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Supplemental material for Stroke in the Middle-East and North Africa: A 2-year prospective observational study of stroke characteristics in the region—Results from the Safe Implementation of Treatments in Stroke (SITS)–Middle-East and North African (MENA)
No full textSupplemental Material for Stroke in the Middle-East and North Africa: A 2-year prospective observational study of stroke characteristics in the region—Results from the Safe Implementation of Treatments in Stroke (SITS)–Middle-East and North African (MENA) by Suhail Al Rukn, Michael V Mazya, Faycal Hentati, Samia Ben Sassi, Fatma Nabli, Zakharia Said, Belahsen Faouzi, Husnain Hashim, Foad Abd-Allah, Benhan Mansouri, Selma Kesraoui, Souheil Gebeily, Husen Abdulrahman, Naveed Akhtar, Niaz Ahmed, Nils Wahlgren, Hany Aref, Mohammed Almekhlafi and Tiago Moreira: for the Stroke Emergency Mobile (STEMO) Consortium in International Journal of Stroke</p
Aerobic exercises enhance cognitive functions and brain derived neurotrophic factor after ischemic stroke
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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
Clinical Relevance of Carotid Atherosclerosis among Egyptians: A 5-Year Retrospective Analysis of 4,733 Subjects
No full text<i>Background and Purpose:</i> The prevalence of carotid artery stenosis has been studied in several cohorts and groups of populations. Prevalence estimates were mostly based on ultrasound studies, because duplex ultrasound is accurate, reproducible and inexpensive to diagnose and follow up patients with arterial disorders. The purpose of our study was to describe the pattern of carotid artery disease in a large sample of Egyptians. <i>Methods:</i> We analyzed the data of 4,733 Egyptian subjects, who underwent extracranial carotid duplex scanning at the vascular laboratories of Cairo University Hospitals from January 1, 2003, to January 1, 2008. Demographic, clinical data and causes of referral were correlated with ultrasound findings. <i>Results:</i> Atherosclerotic carotid artery disease was present in 41% of the study population in the form of intimal thickening in 835 (17.6%), <50% stenosis in 983 (20.8%), 50–69% stenosis in 81 (1.7%), ≧70% stenosis in 38 (0.8%) and occlusion of internal carotid artery in 3 (0.06%) patients. Nonatherosclerotic disease was detected in 9 (0.2%) patients only. Significant and clinically relevant stenosis ≧50% was detected in 19 (2.5%) of the atherosclerotic symptomatic subjects. Multivariate stepwise logistic regression analysis selected age, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, smoking and dyslipidemia as independent predictors of the presence of carotid atherosclerotic disease. <i>Conclusion:</i> Hemodynamically significant and clinically relevant extracranial atherosclerotic carotid disease is rare among Egyptians. Risk factors for carotid atherosclerosis are the same as in societies where carotid disease is more prevalent.</jats:p
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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