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Response to sequential treatment with lymphoblastoid interferon-alpha in patients with Ph+ chronic myeloid leukemia unresponsive to recombinant interferon- alpha (rIFN alpha 2a) and neutralizing rIFN alpha 2a antibobies negative.
No full textResponse to sequential treatment with lymphoblastoid interferon-α in patients with Ph+ chronic myeloid leukemia unresponsive to recombinant interferon-α (rIFNα2a) and neutralizing-rIFNα2a antibodies negative
No full textNine Ph+ CML patients in chronic phase who were hematologically and/or karyotypically unresponsive to recombinant-IFNα2a (rIFNα2a) and neutralizing-rIFNα2a Abs negative were shifted from rIFNα2a to lymphoblastoid-IFNα (IFNα-Ly) therapy. After 3 months of IFNa-Ly treatment, the hematologic response was reinduced in 3 out of the 6 pts who were resistant to previous rIFNα2a therapy, and was maintained in 2 out of 3 patients who were hematologically but not karyotypically responsive to rIFNα2a. After 6 and 12 months, the hematologic response was progressively lost, being present only in 3 out of 7 and in 2 out of 3 evaluable patients respectively. None of the hematologically responsive patients achieved a karyotypic response (Ph neg. metaphases = 0%). One patient, who was hematologically responsive, continued being treated with IFNα-ly for 36 months but he did not achieve any karyotypic response. The results of this study suggest that in the unresponsive and neutralizing-rIFNα2a Abs negative CML patients a change in therapy, by using a non cross-reactive type of IFNα, would not be advantageous
Fludarabine and cytosine-arabinoside for poor-risk acute myeloid leukemia.
No full textThirteen relapsed or refractory AML patients were treated with the FLA regimen. A complete remission was observed in 54% of cases but the median duration of remission was short (4 months). These results suggest that the FLA regimen is not able to induce a durable complete remission in the poor-risk AML patients
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
Clinical experience of antibodies to interferon-alpha during treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia
No full textInterferon-alpha (IFN-alpha) remains the only viable alternative to bone marrow transplantation for patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and is the treatment of choice in many circumstances. IFN-alpha can induce hematologic remissions in most patients with CML and suppresses the Philadelphia chromosome-positive cell clone in 30%-40% of hematologically responsive patients. IFN-alpha can also prolong the length of the chronic disease phase and survival time in patients who achieve a karyotypic response. A third of patients, however, never respond to IFN-alpha, and a proportion of the initial responders will later become resistant. It has been suggested that the induction of anti-IFN-alpha antibodies might be one of the reasons for resistance to IFN-alpha. It is difficult to evaluate the factors that influence antibody induction and the effects of these antibodies on clinical results. The source of IFN-alpha product, trial design, and differences in the sensitivity of the assays used to measure antibodies are all factors that need to be considered
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
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