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Survey of prophylactic antibiotic use amongst UK cochlear implant surgeons
No full textCochlear implant patients are at an increased risk of pneumococcal meningitis. Recent government guidelines require all implant patients to undergo pneumococcal vaccination. The guidelines also suggest antibiotic prophylaxis but no clear guidelines regarding which antibiotic to use or for how long were issued.We asked each implant centre within the UK to describe their antibiotic protocol for cochlear implantation.Our results have showed that 100% of UK implant surgeons use antibiotic prophylaxis. The type of antibiotic and duration vary significantly between centres. Interestingly, however, the regimes followed by most practices do not adhere to surgical principles of antibiotic prophylaxis
Charles King Emma (1921-2014) Papers, undated, 1941-2012, 1943-1945
No full textThis collection is comprised of armed forces material, correspondence, and other documents and ephemera related to Charles King Emma’s military service in the United States Army between 1943 and 1946. Most of the correspondence uses the name Charles Emma while a smaller number use the name Charles Garfiel. The collection includes three folders of correspondence primarily from him to his mother while he was stationed at various places in the Army and also includes one letter from the American Museum of Natural History to Mr. Emma regarding a project he worked on for the museum. There are also two undated address books which may precede the war. The collection includes the many Armed Forces Instructional Exams he took while in the Army, one among them on writing short stories. The collection includes postcards sent by Mr. Emma to his mother and other relatives in addition to the correspondence. Also in the collection are magazines, ephemera, patches, souvenirs, and photographs he received while enlisted in the U.S. Army. Contained in the collection are five diaries from the WWII years, with a veterans and an Intercollegiate Zionist identification card within one of them. There are also copies of several newspaper clippings and advertisements and a 2012 draft of a short story Mr. Emma was attempting to write.Published citations should take the following form: Identification of item, date (if known); Charles King Emma Papers; P-966; box number; folder number; American Jewish Historical Society, Boston, MA and New York, NY.Charles King Emma and Stephen FlaxCharles King Emma, presumably born and raised in Brooklyn, enlisted in the U.S. Army from 1943 through 1946. His original last name was Garfiel. It is not known how his name was changed to Emma, but there are indications that his aunt, Mrs. S. Emma, adopted him through the Hebrew Orphan Asylum. He served in the Pacific Theater of World War II until 1945. There is little else known about him.Finding Aid available in Reading Room and on Internet
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
The immune response in HPV(+) oropharyngeal cancer
No full textAlthough human papillomavirus (HPV)(+) oropharyngeal cancers often present with metastasis, most patients have excellent long-term survival. The reason underlying such an apparent contradiction remains unclear, but we have recently demonstrated that the improved survival of HPV(+) oropharyngeal cancer patients has an immunological component, as the levels of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) can be used to stratify HPV(+) patients into high-risk and low-risk groups
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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