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Randomised Controlled Trial on the efficacy of Mamajjaka (Enicostemma littorale Linn.) in the Management of Madhumeha (Diabetes Mellitus)
Get PDFDiabetes Mellitus is in top ten list of diseases causing mortality. In the year 2011, estimated 366 million people were found to be suffering from diabetes mellitus. By year 2030 this morbidity data will rise to approximately 552 million people worldwide. India is having the largest number of diabetics in the world and gets the name ‘Diabetic capital’. This study was carried out with an aim:-‘To Conduct a Randomised Controlled (Upashayatmaka) Trial on the role of Mamajjaka capsule in the management of Madhumeha (DM type-2)’. In this study total 110 patients of Diabetes were selected from NIA hospital and randomly divided into two groups. Group A (Control group) comprise 54 patients were administered with Tab. Metformin and dose was 500mg tablet 1 BD before meals as advised according to allopathic consultant. Group B (Trial group) comprise 56 patients were administered with Cap. Mamajjaka, dose: 500 mg Capsule 2 BD, before 30 min. of meal with lukewarm water. Total duration trial was 100 days. Results obtained in subjective and objective parameters were analysed for the statistical significance by adapting paired T test and unpaired T test. The study revealed that Group-B was found to be more effective in bringing symptomatic relief and Group-A was found to be more effective in improving biochemical markers in the patients of Madhumeha. Cap. Mamajjaka (Enicostemma littorale Linn.) provided better results, suggests that this can be a good complimentary medicine for the patients who are not getting good relief from modern medicine alone
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
A Cross Sectional Survey Study to find out the role of Avarana as a diagnostic tool in General Practice with special reference to Madhumeha
Get PDFSrotas and Avarana are essential factors of Samprapti of almost all the Nija roga. Avarana is an underestimated and neglected aspect of Roga Samprapti. Therefore a survey study was conducted to gather data about understanding of Avarana w.s.r. to Madhumeha (Diabetes Mellitus). A dully prepared questionnaire pro forma on Avarana have been proposed and send it to 83 Ayurvedic doctors from NIA & across India to collect data. Questionnaire included choices of different samprapti ghataka like Agni, Dosha, Dushya, Srotasa, Ama, Avarana, Nidana and response against question “Is Avarana an important samprapti ghataka in day to day practice?On a small study of NIA it was found that 39.76% consultants included Avarana, 66.27% included dosha vighatana, 56.63% included dushya, 54.22% included Agni 53.01% included Ama, 48.19% included srotasa and 36.15% included nidana as a samprapti ghataka for diagnosing the disease in day to day practice. Response against question Is Avarana an important samprapti ghataka in day to day practice 62 (74.70%) consultants answered Yes, but Avarana the records show that only 28 (33.74%) were using Avarana as an important samprapti ghataka, 11 (13.25%) were seeing daily >10 patients in their OPD/IPD and 18 (21.69%) were unable to explain why Avarana should be an important samprapti ghataka. Out of rest 21 (25.30%) answered No, 14 (16.87%) were unable to explain their response & 7 (8.43%) cited difficulty in understanding Avarana in diagnosis in day to day practice.On an average it was found that 33.41% patients were consulted in OPD and 2.43% in IPD. Most of the consultants use only 7 samprapti ghataka for diagnosis of diseases. 62 (74.70%) consultants answered ‘Yes’ in response to question (Is Avarana an important samprapti ghataka in day to day practice?), but no satisfactory explanation was given
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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