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Étude comparative des performances des ventilateurs de domicile et analyse des interactions patient-ventilateur en ventilation non invasive
No full textLa ventilation non invasive constitue une modalité de traitement de l’insuffisance respiratoire chronique suffisamment prescrite pour motiver des études sur banc d’essai afin d’évaluer et de comparer les performances des ventilateurs. Pour que les évaluations soient fiables et reproductibles, nous avons revisité de nombreux aspects des études sur poumon mécanique et développé une procédure paramétrique de tests des ventilateurs. Nous avons commencé par modéliser un effort inspiratoire physiologique qui, lorsqu’il gouverne trois modèles pulmonaires physiopathologiques distincts, permet de simuler une cohorte réaliste de patients. L’élaboration de cette procédure a nécessité la définition d’une terminologie claire et motivée, ainsi que l’uniformisation des conditions de tests des ventilateurs. Il a ainsi été rendu possible de caractériser la synchronisabilité des ventilateurs, définie comme leur capacité à se synchroniser aux différents modèles pulmonaires testés. Ces performances dépendent à la fois de la mécanique et de la dynamique pulmonaires. La création de fiches techniques et d’outils de comparaison des ventilateurs, mis à la disposition des praticiens sur un site dédié, devrait faciliter le choix d’un dispositif d’assistance ventilatoire adapté à chaque patient. Ce travail s’appuie en outre sur un modèle dynamique d’interactions patient-ventilateur ayant permis de dresser une revue des asynchronismes mais également d’en comprendre les mécanismes sous-jacents. La mise en relation des résultats théoriques et expérimentaux offre une perspective d’identification des stratégies de fonctionnement des ventilateurs et d’optimisation des interactions patient-ventilateur.Noninvasive ventilation can be defined as a modality of treatment for chronic respiratory failure. Nowadays, it is sufficiently often prescribed to motivate test bench studies whose objectives are to evaluate and compare ventilators performances. To provide reliable and reproducible assessments, we revisited many aspects of test bench studies and developed a parametric procedure for testing ventilators. We initially focused our attention on the modeling of a physiological inspiratory effort which, when driving three pathophysiological lung models, allows to simulate a realistic cohort of patients. The development of this procedure required to introduce a clear and motivated terminology, as well as to unify the parameter settings of the ventilators. It was then possible to characterize the ventilators synchronizability, defined as the ability of the device to synchronize with the different pulmonary models it was connected to. These performances depend on the mechanics and dynamics of the lung model. Providing the practitioners with reports and tools for comparing ventilators on a dedicated website should facilitate the choice of a ventilatory assistance device adapted to each patient. This works was also devoted to the use of a dynamical model for the patient-ventilator system which allowed us not only to review most of the asynchrony events observed in clinics but also to explain their underlying mechanisms. Linking theoretical and experimental results offers us a perspective for identifying the ventilators operating strategies, a required step to improve patient-ventilator interactions
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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