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Female lichen sclerosus genitalis: Discomfort and adaptation
No full textIntroduction Female genitalis lichen sclerosus (FGLS) occurs on skin and mucous membranes and shows inflammatory lesions, chronic atrophic, itching and pain. These physical damages produce a decline in sex and a resulting relational couple discomfort. Aim We describe the discomfort and the relationship between physical and psychological damage. Materials and Methods A random sample, between 35-55 years (average 44.55, SD 6.00) includes 2 groups of 55 subjects: - the first with LSAG diagnosis since 24 months - the latter with controls. We evaluated personality by the MMPI-2, discomfort by short SF-36, couple relationship by ISS, coping by Cope and resilience by CR-RISC scales. Statistical analysis was performed by SPSS 14 version. P-values < 0.05, 95% confidence limits, t, F, W and P tests and two by two table, compare two rates and Cohort/RTC were employed. Results Discomfort makes same personality factors changed. 50 FGLS recorded higher scores than 50 controls in MMIP-2, ISS and CD-RISC scales, lower in ISF-36 and COPE scale. Statistical tests show a valid significance (p < 0.00001), a 94.3% of exposed with outcome, an etiological fraction in exposed of 96,15% and a 26 risk / prevalence ratio. Discussion The psychological distress arises as a result of somatic damage and reduces expression and thought of self. Lesion and pain produce depression, anxiety, negative emotionality and decline of sex. High values of t, F and W tests indicate a good validity of results. Conclusions The psychological distress grows from somatic damages and, in progressive way, it reduce expressions and thoughts of ego in increasingly tight limits: through successive stages, it involves social relations, couple relationships and individual identity
Discomfort and adaptation in psoriatic patients: An inchoate supportive care trial
No full textIntroduction. Psoriasis produces functional and aesthetic damages which cause psychosocial discomfort and require new adjustment factors. Aims. We describe the correlation among discomfort and personality factors as traits, coping, defense mechanism (DM) and resilience in Ps (skin psoriasis) and PsA (psoriatic arthritis) patients. Materials and Methods. A random sample, age between 45-60, with 1:1 female/male, includes 3 groups each of 90 subjects: - single psoriasis (Ps, average 50.11, SD 4.9928) - Ps and psoriatic arthritis (PsA, average 50.61, SD 4.8765) - controls (C, average 50.0 and SD 4.8019). We evaluated traits by the 16PF-5, coping by Cope Scale, defence mechanism (DM) by DMRS, dysmorphophobia by BDDE and resilience by CR-RISC scales. Statistical analysis was performed by SPSS 14 version, p < 0.05 and t, F, W and P tests and clinical analysis. Results. We recorded a reduction in traits and coping and an increase in DM, dysmorphophobia and resilience. PsA patients showed a greater distress and adjustment factors than Ps alone. Tests showed a valid significance (p < 0.00001), an effect size from 0.30 to > 0.50 in comparison patients-C and η2 = 1.4 in comparison Ps-PsA. In all patients- controls OR, PAR and NNT registered very high values. Discussion. Reduction in autonomy and imperfections cause an internal damage. The adaptation process searches coping factors (to integrate traits) when lesions appear. It selects DM when stressful dynamics require a further adaptation. Finally it results in adequate resilience when damages and dysmorphophobia are offset by traits, coping and DM. Conclusions. Clinical signs increase more then traits in severity, coping decrease in resources, resilience and DM grow in use and dismorphophobia just increases in intensity
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
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