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Jeddah-obesity-supplementary_material_FV2 – Supplemental material for The prevalence of obesity and overweight, associated demographic and lifestyle factors, and health status in the adult population of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
No full textSupplemental material, Jeddah-obesity-supplementary_material_FV2 for The prevalence of obesity and overweight, associated demographic and lifestyle factors, and health status in the adult population of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia by Rajaa Al-Raddadi, Suhad M. Bahijri, Hanan A. Jambi, Gordon Ferns and Jaakko Tuomilehto in Therapeutic Advances in Chronic Disease</p
sj-pdf-1-qch-10.1177_0272684X20976825 - Supplemental material for Psychosocial Determinants of Changes in Dietary Behaviors Among Iranian Women: An Application of the Pender’s Health Promotion Model
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-qch-10.1177_0272684X20976825 for Psychosocial Determinants of Changes in Dietary Behaviors Among Iranian Women: An Application of the Pender’s Health Promotion Model by Mohammad Vahedian Shahroodi, Seyedeh Belin Tavakoly Sany, Zahra Hosseini Khaboshan, Arezoo Orooji, Habibollah Esmaeily, Gordon Ferns and Mohammad Tajfard in International Quarterly of Community Health Education</p
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
Cause, consequence or coincidence: The relationship between psychiatric disease and metabolic syndrome
No full textIt is now well established that severe mental illness (SMI) is associated with a reduced lifespan and increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Individuals with SMI often have abnormalities of lipid metabolism, glucose homeostasis, an increased prevalence of obesity and hypertension. They also have an increased prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome (MetS). The reasons for this are not entirely clear, but are likely to be multifactorial. Whilst there have been numerous studies investigating the prevalence of MetS in patients with SMI, many have been in small, mixed population samples, that have not been adequately controlled for the background population from which they have been drawn. This is important because of the wide range of prevalence estimates that have been reported, and variations of MetS prevalence with ethnicity. The negative impact of treatment with second-generation antipsychotic (SGA) drugs on the risk of MetS also appears clear in most populations, although the mechanisms accounting for this increased risk are yet to be clarified. Despite this high prevalence of CVD risk factors in patients with SMI, most studies report a poor implementation of screening for CVD risk factors at baseline, and following initiation of treatment with SGAs. Not all patients with SMI are susceptible to the adverse effects of SGAs, but in those that are, switching to an anti-psychotic that is less likely to cause metabolic disturbance, starting statin therapy and a reduction in CVD risk factors through changes in lifestyle may all be important strategies
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