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Influência de diferentes contenções ortodônticas superiores na fala: análise por leigos e análise acústica
No full textIntroduction: The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of different upper retainers in speech, through Perceptual Auditory Analysis by the laypersons and acoustic analysis. Methods: Eighteen volunteers were selected to use four types of upper retainers: conventional Wrap-Around (CWA), modified horseshoe Wrap-Around (HWA), modified anterior hole Wrap-Around (AHWA) and vacuum-formed (VF). They were used for 21 days each, with intervals of 7 days without use among them. Speech evaluation was performed in vocal excerpts recordings made before installation of the retainers (T0), immediately after the installation of each retainer (T1), and 21 days after the installation (T2). The Perceptual Auditory Analysis of laypersons was performed by means of the visual analogue scale of 100 mm, while the acoustic analysis consisted of the mean diadochokinesia (DDK) rate evaluation, as well as the formant frequencies F1 and F2 of the fricative consonants. One-way ANOVA and two-way ANOVA were used. Results: In the Perceptual Auditory Analysis of laypersons, there was a worsening in the values of T0 to T1 in all the retainers, but only for CWA and VF the values were statistically lower. In T2 the values increased, but for the VF the value still remained statistically lower than T0 while for the AHWA the difference of T0 for T2 was practically null. There were no changes in DDK values. For the formant frequencies, in general way there was a difference from T0 to T1 and a little difference from T0 to T2, whereas in the comparison among the devices the CWA presented greater changes in the F1 formants of some consonants, whereas AHWA presented lower values, with the others devices showing intermediate values. Conclusions: In both types of analysis (subjective and objective), there was a change in speech after the installation of each retainer, with an improvement after 21 days of use. The laypersons considered larger speech disorders involving VF, and smaller ones involving AHWA. For the acoustic analysis, the changes were greater for CWA, whereas for AHWA there were lower changes.Introdução: O objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar a influência de diferentes contenções superiores na fala, através de análise perceptiva auditiva por leigos e análise acústica. Métodos: Dezoito voluntários foram selecionados para utilizar quatro tipos de contenções superiores, sendo elas: placa Wrap-Around convencional (WAC), Wrap- Around modificada em formato de ferradura (WAF) Wrap-Around modificada com orifício anterior (WAO) e contenção termoplástica transparente (CTT). Elas foram usadas por 21 dias cada, com intervalos de 7 dias sem utilização entre elas. A avaliação da fala foi realizada em gravações de trechos vocais realizadas antes da instalação das contenções (T0), imediatamente após a instalação de cada contenção (T1), assim como após 21 dias de uso destas (T2). A análise perceptiva auditiva dos leigos foi realizada através da escala visual analógica de 100 mm, enquanto a análise acústica consistiu na avaliação da média da taxa de diadococinesia (DDC), bem como a frequência dos formantes F1 e F2 das consoantes fricativas. Os testes ANOVA a um critério e ANOVA a dois critérios foram utilizados. Resultados: Na análise perceptiva auditiva dos leigos houve uma piora nos valores de T0 para T1 em todas as contenções, mas somente para WAC e CTT os valores foram estatisticamente menores. Em T2 os valores voltaram a aumentar, mas para CTT ainda houve um valor estatisticamente menor do que T0 enquanto para WAO a diferença de T0 para T2 foi praticamente nula. Não houve alterações nos valores da DDC. Para os formantes, de uma maneira geral houve uma diferença de T0 para T1 e pouca diferença de T0 para T2, enquanto na comparação entre os aparelhos a WAC apresentou alterações maiores nos formantes F1 de algumas consoantes, enquanto WAO apresentou valores menores, e os demais dispositivos valores intermediários. Conclusões: Nos dois tipos de análise (subjetiva e objetiva) houve alteração na fala após a instalação de cada contenção, havendo uma melhora após 21 dias de uso. Os leigos consideraram maiores as alterações da fala envolvendo a CTT, e menores envolvendo WAO. Para a análise acústica os valores foram piores para WAC, enquanto para WAO as alterações foram menores
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
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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