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Evaluation of Self-Medication Practices and its Associated Factors among Urban Population of Ahmedabad City, Gujarat
No full textIntroduction: Self medication is an important issue for health authorities especially in developing countries like India. The study was conducted to assess the socio-demographic profile of urban population and also to assess the trend of self-medication practices & its associated factors.
Methodology: A cross sectional study was conducted among urban population of central and north zone of Ahmedabad municipal Corporation (AMC) area during January to April 2015. Pretested performa was used for study. Among 250 houses, total 647 people were selected for study after their informed consent.
Results: Out of 647 people, males were 54.3% & females were 45.7%. Majority of people were belongs to 25 to 35 yr. age group (27.2%). Majority of people were found in S-E class-3. Majority of male were used NSAIDS (74.6%) and female were used Anti emetics (81.8%) for self-medication practices. Most common influencing factor was media (37.9%) & pharmacist (41.9%) among upper & lower S-E class respectively.
Conclusions: Mean age was 37.4 ± 2.6. Most common reason for self-medication was time constrains & high consulting fees of doctors among upper & lower S-E class respectively. Knowledge on different drug related reactions were shows significant different among both S-E classes (P: <0.0001)
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
Socio-Demographic and Health Profile of Indoor Pediatric Patients Admitted in VS General Hospital, Ahmedabad
No full textIntroduction: Children under 15yr. of age comprise about 35.3% of India's population. The study was conducted to assess socio-demographic profile of pediatric patients and to assess the health status and probable etiology for hospitalization among them.
Methodology: A cross sectional study was conducted among indoor pediatric patients under 15 yr age group admitted in V.S. general hospital, Ahmedabad during February to June 2015. Pretested Performa was used for study after informed consent of their parents.
Results: Out of 193 children, majority (31.1%) were belongs to 0 to 2 yr age group. Major cause for hospitalization was gastrointestinal diseases (24.9%) followed by respiratory diseases (22.8%). 81(42%) children were malnourished. Gender wise significant difference was found among children for malnutrition status (P= 0.006). Majority children (upto 5yr) were partially immunized (56.5%). An average hand hygienic practice was noted of parents.
Conclusion: Significant gender wise age distribution was noted. Almost half of admitted children (42%) were malnourished. Higher number of infectious diseases (gastrointestinal and respiratory) might be due to improper hygienic measures, average literacy and low socio-economic condition of family. Higher dropout rate was noted in immunization
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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