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The influence of the fear of veteran unrest on the development of university education as a rehabilitation measure in re-establishing Canadian soldiers of World War II
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Translating French Song as a Language Learning Activity
No full textKelly Andrew B. Translating French Song as a Language Learning Activity. In: Équivalences, 22e année-n°1-2 ; 23e année-n°1, 1992. Traduire et interpréter Georges Brassens, sous la direction de Martine Bracops. pp. 91-112
What is the epidemiology and burden of foot fractures in the United Kingdom? Analysis of the global burden of disease study 2021.
No full textBackground: Foot fractures account for approximately 10 % of all fractures and 40 % of lower extremity fractures. They are associated with pain, mobility limitations, and prolonged recovery, contributing to considerable healthcare and societal costs. While the clinical and economic burden of foot fractures is recognised globally, data specific to the UK population are sparse, outdated, and often grouped under broader injury categories. Given rising demands on the UK's publicly funded NHS, an up-to-date, population-level understanding of foot fracture burden is essential for targeted prevention and planning.
Methods: This retrospective cross-sectional study used publicly available model-based estimates from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2021 study. Incidence and Years Lived with Disability (YLDs) for foot fractures (excluding ankle) were analysed across the UK from 1990 to 2021. Age-standardised incidence rates (ASIR) and age-standardised YLD rates (ASYR) were examined. Poisson regression and Pearson correlation were used to explore associations between geography, age, and incidence. Leading causes of injury were also described.
Results: Between 1990 and 2021, the UK experienced an overall decline in ASIR for foot fractures, from 376.6 to 314.9 per 100,000. All four UK nations showed decreasing trends, with England demonstrating the steepest reduction (annual percentage change: -0.18 %). Regionally, London had the lowest incidence and highest rate of decline. Males had consistently higher incidence rates than females, with adolescent males (15-24) particularly affected. A strong negative correlation was observed between age and incidence (r = -0.850, p < .001), though incidence and YLDs in the elderly increased between 1990 and 2021. Falls were the leading cause of foot fractures, especially among older adults, and their incidence rose markedly over time.
Conclusion: Foot fractures remain a significant and evolving public health issue in the UK, particularly among young men and older women. The observed trends highlight successes in injury prevention but also reveal emerging needs-particularly in fall prevention and support for the ageing population. These findings support more targeted public health strategies and future economic evaluations of injury-related care in the NHS.This study was conducted as part of an MSc in Surgical Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. The lead author received an ASiT–ESO bursary to support MSc tuition fees. No other funding was received, and the authors declare no additional conflicts of interest relevant to this work
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
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