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PREVALENCE OF SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS AT URINE WET PREPARATION AMONG PATIENTS AT THE SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE CLINIC AT MULAGO HOSPITAL.
No full text<p>This study was conducted in 2016 and submitted as a dissertation in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of a bachelor's degree in Cytotechnology at Makerere University, Uganda.</p>
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
Histopathologic study of papular pruritic eruption in people living with HIV-AIDS as seen in Mulago Hospital.
No full textA Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of the degree of Master of Medicine (Pathology), Makerere University, Kampala.Background: Pruritic popular eruption is a generalised pruritic eruption of unclear aetiology. Many PLHA in Uganda suffer from it. This rash appears at all stages of the disease and it has been assumed that there are multiple pathologic entities affecting these patients.
Objective: The objective of the study was to establish the histopathology of PPE in PLHA.
Methodology: The study was a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted in Mulago hospital. Patients with PPE were selected. Each patient received a detailed explanation of the study in his/her preferred language and provided a written informed consent to a clinical and personal history and skin biopsy. Punch biopsy of skin lesions that had not been traumatised were taken. Histology was done in the Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Makerere University.
Results: The study recruited 134 patients with popular pruritic eruption (PPE) of whom 65.7% were females and 34.3% males. The minimum age was 18 years and the maximum 60 years with Baganda constituting the largest tribe seen. The initial lesions of PPE were on the arms and face but later became generalized. Fifty percent of the patients had a normal epidermis while in the other fifty percent of the patients the epidermis had one lesion or lesions. Several two percent of the patients had a perivascular infiltrate; other lesions found in the dermis included cellular infiltrate of lymphocytes, eosinophils or both, necrobiosis, pigment incontinence severe vessel damage and red cell deposits. The epidermal changes in PPE are attributable to mechanical injury. The dermal changes are suggestive of reaction to insect bites, allergic dermatitis. HIV viral proteins and immune dysregulation may play a role in PPE.
In conclusion PPE in HIV shows a varied histological picture with the distribution of the rash anad histologic findings characteristic of reaction to insect bites
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
Burkitt Lymphoma in Uganda. A study of some biological and epidemiological aspects of endemic Burkitt lymphoma
Full text linkDispelling 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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