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    The European society of cardiology ACCA-EAPCI registry on ST elevation myocardial infarction: A new Registry to evaluate the treatment of STEMI across Europe and the Mediterranean countries is discussed

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    The main objective of this study is to describe the demographic, clinical, and biological characteristics of patients with STEMI admitted to a representative setting of cardiology centres in ESC-member countries in Europe. Other objectives are to assess management patterns and in particular the current use of reperfusion therapies and to evaluate how recommendations of most recent STEMI European guidelines regarding reperfusion therapies and adjunctive pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments are adopted in clinical practice and how their application can impact on patients’ outcomes. Information on the reasons why evidencebased treatments are not utilized will be collected. An interesting objective will be to evaluate the organization of STEMI management across Europe and Mediterranean countries specifically regarding the diagnostic and admission process and treatment pathways. The registry will validate the prognostic predictors of inhospital and 1-year outcomes. In particular, patients with Cardiopulmonary resuscitation and/or cardiogenic shock, who still present a high mortality rate despite reperfusion therapy. A 1-year follow-up will be performed to assess long-term event rate and adherence to secondary prevention measures

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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

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    We 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

    Author Index

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    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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

    Sociology of Politics - Ethnographic Research in Political Party at the Regional Grade - Comparison of two Political Parties.

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    Diplomová práce se snaží o propojení dvou disciplín - sociologie a politiky. Hlavním cílem práce je rozkrytí mechanismů fungování vybrané politické strany na komunální úrovni a také, jak v tomto prostředí fungují mocenské struktury. Mezi vybrané aspekty spojené s politickým životem autor zařazuje motivy vstupu do politiky, gender a také moc, která je později propojena s teorií oligarchizace. Dalším důležitým kritériem v této práci je věk. Autor se snaží najít odpověď na otázku, zda spolu souvisí věk a výše rozhodovacích pravomocí v politickém prostředí. Celý výzkum je založen na kvalitativních metodách. Šetření je doplněno o kvantitativní data vývoje kandidátních listin (rozmístění kandidátů na kandidátních listinách a jeho proměna).ObhájenoThis thesis is trying to connect two disciplines - sociology and politics. The main aim is to unveal the mechanisms of the functioning of the selected political party on municipal level, and as well to detect the power structures existing in this milieu. The theoretical part of the paper is focusing on selected aspects connected with political life. They are the motivations to join politics in general, gender aspects, and also the question of power. This last aspect is later discussed under the view-angle of oligarchisation. Other important aspect, the author is dealing with, is the age. The question whether there could be found the relationship between the age and the position in the hierarchy of decision-making. The whole research is based on qualitative methods. The survey is complemented by quantitative data drawn from the development of candidate lists (the presence of the subjects on the candidate list and their positioning there)
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