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Hyaluronic acid, type IV collagen, procollagen type III N terminal peptide levels for noninvasive evaluation of hepatic fibrosis in patients with chronic viral hepatitis B and C
No full textKronik hepatitli hastalarda inflamasyon ve fibrozisin derecesini belirlemede karaciğer biyopsisi `altın standart' olarak kabul edilmektedir. Tedavi öncesi yapılmasındaki temel hedef tedaviden fayda görmesi beklenen grubu (orta derecede inflamasyon ve ileri derecede fibrozisli) belirlemektir. Bununla birlikte karaciğer biyopsisinin mortalite ve morbiditeye neden olması, etik nedenlerle takip için uygun olmaması ve karaciğerdeki patolojilerin heterojen dağılımı tanıdaki rolünün tartışılmasına neden olmaktadır.Yapılan çalışmalarda biyopsi yapılmadan fibrozisin evresini belirlemeye imk?n sağlayacak invaziv olmayan biyokimyasal belirleyicilerin histolojik hasarı tespit etme ve fibrozisin ilerlemesinin takibinde yardımcı olabileceği düşünülmektedir.Çalışmamızda kronik hepatit B ve C'li hastalarda karaciğerdeki fibrozisi değerlendirmede noninvaziv belirteçlerden olan hyaluronik asit, tip IV kollajen, prokollajen III aminoterminal peptit düzeyinin karaciğer histopatolojisi ile ilişkisini ortaya koymayı amaçladık.Bu çalışmada 56 kronik hepatit B ile 24 kronik hepatit C hastası incelendi. Hastalar Ishak skorlama sistemi kullanılarak yapılan karaciğer biyopsisinde fibrozis skorlarına göre HA, PIIINP, Tip IV kollajen düzeyleri açısından karşılaştırıldı. Kronik hepatit B'de ciddi fibrozis grubunda tip IV kollajen düzeyleri istatistiksel olarak anlamlı derecede yüksekti (p<0,05). Kronik hepatit C'li hastalarda ise fibrozis skoruna göre ayrılan gruplar arasında noninvaziv belirteçlerin düzeyi ile istatistiksel anlamlılık tespit edilmedi.Dolayısıyla bu çalışmanın sonucuna göre; karaciğer fibrozisinin noninvaziv ölçümünde kullanılabilecek serum belirteçlerinin değerleri gittikçe artıyor olmasına rağmen karaciğer biyopsi örneğinin histopatolojik incelenmesi halen, karaciğer hastalığının evrelemesinde önemini korumaktadır.Liver biopsy is the `gold standard' for evaluating the degree of inflammation and fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis. The aim of liver biopsy is to determine the patients with moderate degree of inflammation and advanced fibrosis who are expected to benefit from treatment. However, the role of biopsy in the diagnosis of liver diseases is controversial because the procedure has the risk of morbidity and mortality, performing recurrent liver biopsies cannot be accepted as an ethical conduct and the obtained specimen may not present the disease due to the heterogeneous nature of liver pathologies.In several studies it is suggested that non-invasive biochemical markers, which allow determining the stage of fibrosis without biopsy, may help to screen histological damage and the progression of fibrosis.In our study, our aim was to evaluate the relation of serum levels of hyaluronic acid, collagen type IV, and procollogen amino-terminal peptide type III which are non-invasive markers of liver fibrosis with the stage of histopathological liver fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis B and C.The study included 56 patients with chronic hepatitis B and 24 patients with chronic hepatitis C. The fibrosis in the liver specimens was evaluated according to Ishak scoring system and the results were compared with serum hyaluronic acid, collagen type IV, and procollogen amino-terminal peptide type III levels. For the patients with chronic hepatitis B, serum levels of type IV collagen were significantly correlated with the severity of fibrosis (p<0.05). However for the patients with chronic hepatitis C, there was no correlation between the serum levels of bio markers and histological liver fibrosis.Consequently, the results of this study revealed that even increasing value of the serum markers which can be used for non-invasive measurements of liver fibrosis, histopathologic examination of the liver is still important for determining the severity of liver diseases
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
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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