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Reliability of patient reported outcomes assessing dual-task difficulties in daily life in persons with Multiple Sclerosis: a multicenter study in Turkey and Belgium
No full textDoelstellingen: Het doel was om de betrouwbaarheid te onderzoeken van de Turkse en Nederlandse versies van Daily-life Activities Questionnaire (DIDA-Q), Dual Tasking Screening List (DTSL), en Dual Task Questionnaire (DTQ).
Deelnemers: 36 Turkse en 27 Nederlandse MS patiënten werden geïncludeerd. Turkse en Nederlandse deelnemers werden getest in de MS polikliniek van de Dokuz Eylül Universiteit en REVAL Faculteit Revalidatiewetenschappen van de Universiteit Hasselt en het Nationaal MS Centrum Melsbroek, respectievelijk.
Metingen: Patiëntkenmerken, DT-prestatietaken, door de patiënt gerapporteerde uitkomsten, en drie DT vragenlijsten werden toegepast. Interne consistentie inclusief en test-hertest betrouwbaarheid van DIDA-Q, DTSL en DTQ werden onderzocht.
Resultaten: Beide versies van DIDA-Q, DTSL en DTQ toonden een uitstekende interne consistentie (CAC range 0.91 tot 0.96). Een zeer hoge test-hertest betrouwbaarheid werd gevonden voor alle DT PRO in de Turkse versie (ICC range 0.94 tot 0.99). Voor de Nederlandstalige versies was de test-hertestbetrouwbaarheid hoog tot zeer hoog voor drie subschalen en de totaalscore van DIDA-Q (ICC range 0,87 tot 0,97), evenals adequaat voor DTSL (ICC 0,75) en hoge test-hertestbetrouwbaarheid voor DTQ (ICC 0,84). Bland-Altman plots en regressie analyse voor alle DT PROs laten geen proportionele bias zien.
Discussie en conclusie: Over het algemeen was de betrouwbaarheid van de DT PRO goed voor beide talen. Deze resultaten zouden bevestigd moeten worden met een grotere steekproef
Reliability of patient reported outcomes assessing dual-task difficulties in daily life in persons with Multiple Sclerosis: a multicenter study in Turkey and Belgium
No full textDoelstellingen: Het doel was om de betrouwbaarheid te onderzoeken van de Turkse en Nederlandse versies van Daily-life Activities Questionnaire (DIDA-Q), Dual Tasking Screening List (DTSL), en Dual Task Questionnaire (DTQ).
Deelnemers: 36 Turkse en 27 Nederlandse MS patiënten werden geïncludeerd. Turkse en Nederlandse deelnemers werden getest in de MS polikliniek van de Dokuz Eylül Universiteit en REVAL Faculteit Revalidatiewetenschappen van de Universiteit Hasselt en het Nationaal MS Centrum Melsbroek, respectievelijk.
Metingen: Patiëntkenmerken, DT-prestatietaken, door de patiënt gerapporteerde uitkomsten, en drie DT vragenlijsten werden toegepast. Interne consistentie inclusief en test-hertest betrouwbaarheid van DIDA-Q, DTSL en DTQ werden onderzocht.
Resultaten: Beide versies van DIDA-Q, DTSL en DTQ toonden een uitstekende interne consistentie (CAC range 0.91 tot 0.96). Een zeer hoge test-hertest betrouwbaarheid werd gevonden voor alle DT PRO in de Turkse versie (ICC range 0.94 tot 0.99). Voor de Nederlandstalige versies was de test-hertestbetrouwbaarheid hoog tot zeer hoog voor drie subschalen en de totaalscore van DIDA-Q (ICC range 0,87 tot 0,97), evenals adequaat voor DTSL (ICC 0,75) en hoge test-hertestbetrouwbaarheid voor DTQ (ICC 0,84). Bland-Altman plots en regressie analyse voor alle DT PROs laten geen proportionele bias zien.
Discussie en conclusie: Over het algemeen was de betrouwbaarheid van de DT PRO goed voor beide talen. Deze resultaten zouden bevestigd moeten worden met een grotere steekproef
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
Patient-Reported Outcome Measures for Assessing Dual-Task Performance in Daily Life: A Review of Current Instruments, Use, and Measurement Properties
No full textThe patient perspective of dual-task (DT) impairment in real life is unclear. This review aimed (i) to identify patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) on DT and evaluate their measurement properties and (ii) to investigate the usage of PROMs for the evaluation of DT difficulties. A systematic literature search was conducted using PubMed and Web of Science from inception to March 2022. Methodological quality was evaluated using the COSMIN checklist. Six studies examined the measurement properties of DT PROMs. Nine studies used DT PROMs as the outcome measure. Five PROMs were identified, including the Divided Attention Questionnaire (DAQ), Dual-Task-Impact on Daily-life Activities Questionnaire (DIDA-Q), a Questionnaire by Cock et al. (QOC), Dual-Tasking Questionnaire (DTQ), and Dual-Task Screening-List (DTSL). Fourteen measurement properties were documented: five (35.7%) rated quality as “sufficient”, six (42.8%) “insufficient”, and three (21.4%) “indeterminate”. The quality of evidence for each measurement property ranged from very low to high. While DT performance is investigated in many populations, the use of PROMs is still limited, although five instruments are available. Currently, due to insufficient data, it is not possible to recommend a specific DT PROM in a specific population. An exception is DIDA-Q, which has the highest quality of measurement properties in people with multiple sclerosis
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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