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Vascular complications of scleroderma
No full textSystemic sclerosis (SSc) is a multiorgan disease characterized by injury to vascular wall and extensive damage of the
microvessels. The injury of the vascular wall is characterized by the formation of megacapillaries and avascular areas. The reduced
capillary density leads to clinical manifestations such as digital ulcers. These lesions are extremely painful and lead to substantial
functional disability. Management of digital ulcers includes non-pharmacologic and pharmacologic modalities. Despite the
reduced blood flow and reduced partial oxygen pressure levels, there is paradoxically no evidence for a sufficient angiogenesis in
the skin of patients with SSc. Angiogenesis is strongly disturbed in SSc, as demonstrated by Nailfold Video-Capillaroscopy
changes, the damage of the vessels evolves progressively from early to late stages and is characterized by different morphological
aspects. Almost all patients develop Raynaud's phenomenon which, together with structural vasculopathy, results in ulceration
and critical digital ischemia. Many of the severe internal organ complications of SSc are vascular, including pulmonary arterial
hypertension (PAH) and scleroderma renal crisis. Structural vascular damage occurs in many vascular beds and contribute to
pulmonary, renal, cardiac and gastrointestinal complications. SSc has a high case-specific mortality due to organ-based
complications including PAH, lung fibrosis, renal failure and involvement of the gastrointestinal tract
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
Electron beam trajectory and optics control in the ELI-NP Gamma Beam System
No full textMagnetic field errors and misalignments of magnetic and diagnostic components induce spurious emittance growth. The aim of this study is to correct the impact of such errors on the ELI-NP Gamma Beam System low energy line for an effective commissioning of the machine. To perform this study we use the simulation code , for alignment and trajectory stabilization methods such as one-to-one steering, fast-trajectory-feedback (FTF) or global method and Dispersion Free Steering (DFS). We show the latter to be the most robust trajectory control method for magnetic elements and monitor errors
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
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