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Diagnosis of pneumonia in adults in general practice.
No full textPapers in this thesis: I. Hasse Melbye, Bjøsrn Straume, Ulf Aasebøs, Knut Dale: ‘Diagnosis of Pneumonia in Adults in General Practice Relative Importance of Typical Symptoms and Abnormal Chest Signs Evaluated Against a Radiographic Reference Standard’. Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, 1992, Vol. 10, No. 3: 226–233. II. Hasse Melbye, Bjøsrn Straume, Jan Brox: ‘Laboratory Tests for Pneumonia in General Practice: The Diagnostic Values Depend on the Duration of Illness’. Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care Jan 1992, Vol. 10, No. 3: 234–240. III: Hasse Melbye, Bjørn P. Berdal, Bjørn Straume, Harold Russell, Lars Vorland, and W. Lanier Thacker: ‘Pneumonia – a Clinical or Radiographic Diagnosis?’. Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1992, Vol. 24, No. 5 , Pages 647-655. IV: Hasse Melbye, Bjørn Straume: ‘The spectrum of patients strongly influences the usefulness of diagnostic tests for pneumonia’. (Manuscript). For published version: Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care Jan 1993, Vol. 11, No. 4: 241–246. V. H. Melbye, K. Dale: ‘Interobserver Variability in the Radiographic Diagnosis of Adult Outpatient Pneumonia’. Acta Radiol. 1992 Jan;33(1):79-81 VI. H. Melbye: ‘Radiographic Pneumonia: Validity as Reference Standard of Pneumonia in a Clinical Epidemiologic Study’. (Manuscript
Pulse oximetry in an adult population: Predictors of low oxygen saturation and associations with mortality; The Tromsø Study
Full text linkPulsoksymetri er en enkel undersøkelsesmetode for å beregne metningen av oksygen (O2) i arterielt blod (SpO2). Lave verdier kan være indikasjon på hjerte- og/eller lungesykdom. Ingen befolkningsundersøkelser har tidligere sett på oksygenmetning i en voksen befolkning.
Avhandlingen er basert på de to befolkningsundersøkelsene, Tromsø 5 (2001/2002) og Tromsø 6 (2007/2008). I disse ble det gjort lungefunksjonstesting med spirometri og oksygenmetning ble målt med pulsoksymetri. Lav oksygenmetning ble definert som SpO2 ≤95 %, og fall i oksygen metning som fall i SpO2 ≥2 % til SpO2 ≤95 % fra Tromsø 5 til Tromsø 6.
I Tromsø 5 og 6 hadde henholdsvis 11,5 % og 6,3 % av deltakerne lav SpO2. Mellom undersøkelsene falt 4,9 % i SpO2. Lav SpO2 og fall i SpO2 var forbundet med røyking, overvekt, redusert lungefunksjon (FEV1 % av forventet) og forhøyet betennelsesreaksjon (CRP ≥5mg/L). Fall i SpO2 var også forbundet med reduksjon i lungefunksjonen og økning av betennelsesreaksjonen. Røykeslutt og vektreduksjon tenderte til mindre fall, men denne sammenhengen var ikke signifikant. Etter justering for kjente risikofaktorer fremkom det at lav SpO2 førte til økt 10 års totaldødelighet og dødelighet forårsaket av lungesykdommer. Det ble ikke funnet signifikant sammenheng for totaldødelighet ved justering for spirometriverdier, men en fant fortsatt signifikant sammenheng for dødelighet forårsaket av lungesykdommer. Hos personer som får påvist lave verdier bør en derfor anbefale røykeslutt hos røykende og vektnedgang hos overvektige da det sannsynligvis kan redusere risikoen for død, spesielt av lungesykdommer
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
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