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Rivaroxaban for thromboprophylaxis in acutely Ill medical patients
No full text[No abstract available]Cohen AT, 2013, NEW ENGL J MED, V368, P513, DOI 10.1056-NEJMoa1111096; Eriksson BI, 2008, NEW ENGL J MED, V358, P2765, DOI 10.1056-NEJMoa0800374; Lassen MR, 2008, NEW ENGL J MED, V358, P2776, DOI 10.1056-NEJMoa0760160
Sustained improvement in cognitive and emotional status of apneic patients after prolonged treatment with positive airway pressure
No full textBackground: Obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (OSAH) is associated with impairment of cognitive functions and disturbances in emotional status. The aim of this study was to objectively evaluate the benefits of prolonged and sustained treatment for OSAH at two sleep centers serving rural community hospitals. Methods: Fifty-six patients diagnosed with OSAH syndrome underwent Cognistat, Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and Millon Behavioral Medicine Diagnostic Inventory (MBMD) testing before initiation of treatment. Repeated testing after six months of therapy with positive airway pressure (PAP) was performed. Results: Significant improvements were noted in the BDI scale scores and a reduction in the MBMD scores reflected initial abnormal clinical personal symptoms that improved with treatment. MBMD analysis showed subjects with fewer symptoms of anxiety post baseline, which were sustained at 6 months post-treatment. Memory function improved as reflected by performance on the Cognistat. Women were observed to have a higher post-treatment BDI and younger patients appeared to have more shifts for improvement than older subjects in depressive symptomatology. Conclusions: These results indicate that prolonged and sustained PAP therapy is effective in restoring some of the deficiencies in patients with OSAH, particularly in terms of memory, depression, anxiety and increased psychological pathology. Copyright © 2009 by The Southern Medical Association.Aikens JE, 1999, SLEEP, V22, P362; Aikens JE, 1999, SLEEP, V22, P775; American Academy of Sleep Medicine, 2005, INT CLASS SLEEP DIS; American Psychiatric Association, 1994, DIAGN STAT MAN MENT; Barnes M, 2004, AM J RESP CRIT CARE, V170, P656, DOI 10.1164-rccm.200311-1571OC; BECK AT, 1961, ARCH GEN PSYCHIAT, V4, P561; BENCA R, 1999, PRIM PSYCHIAT, V6, P52; Culpepper L, 2002, J CLIN PSYCHIAT, V63, P35; Engleman HM, 2000, SLEEP, V23, pS102; KELLY DA, 1990, NEUROPSYCHOL REV, V4, P323; Kingshott RN, 2000, AM J RESP CRIT CARE, V161, P866; Lim Weonjeong, 2007, J Clin Sleep Med, V3, P380; Neckelmann D, 2007, SLEEP, V30, P873; Ohayon MM, 2003, J CLIN PSYCHIAT, V64, P1195; Parati G, 2007, AM J PHYSIOL-REG I, V293, pR1671, DOI 10.1152-ajpregu.00400.2007; Ricketts TC, 1999, RURAL HLTH US; ROEHRS T, 1995, SLEEP, V18, P382; Saunamaeki T, 2007, ACTA NEUROL SCAND, V116, P277, DOI 10.1111-j.1600-0404.2007.00901.x; Schröder Carmen M, 2005, Ann Gen Psychiatry, V4, P13, DOI 10.1186-1744-859X-4-13; SCHWAMM LH, 1987, ANN INTERN MED, V107, P486; Valipour A, 2007, SLEEP, V30, P312; Zimmerman ME, 2006, CHEST, V130, P1772, DOI 10.1378-chest.130.6.1772; 1999, SLEEP MED, V22, P66776
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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