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The Writer Walking the Dog: Creative Writing Practice and Everyday Life
No full textCreative writing happens in and alongside the writer’s everyday life, but little attention has been paid to the relationship between the two and the contribution made by everyday activities in enabling and shaping creative practice. The work of the anthropologist Tim Ingold supports the argument that creative writing research must consider the bodily lived experience of the writer in order fully to understand and develop creative practice. Dog-walking is one activity which shapes my own creative practice, both by its influence on my social and cultural identity and by providing a time and space for specific acts instrumental to the writing process to occur. The complex socio-cultural context of rural dog-walking may be examined both through critical reflection and creative work. The use of dog-walking for reflection and unconscious creative thought is considered in relation to Romantic models of writing and walking through landscape. While dog-walking is a specific activity with its own peculiarities, the study provides a case study for creative writers to use in developing their own practice in relation to other everyday activities from running and swimming to shopping, gardening and washing up
TISSUE ENGINEERING OF VALVED VENOUS CONDUITS (VVC) VERSUS CONSERVATIVE THERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY (CVI). A DECISION ANALYTIC MODEL USING EXPERT ESTIMATED UTILITIES BASED ON DERIVED DATA FROM ANIMAL STUDIES AS A PRE-MARKETING TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT APPROACH WITH GERMAN DATA
No full textDintsios CM, Hagen A, Gerhardus A, Krauth C. TISSUE ENGINEERING OF VALVED VENOUS CONDUITS (VVC) VERSUS CONSERVATIVE THERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY (CVI). A DECISION ANALYTIC MODEL USING EXPERT ESTIMATED UTILITIES BASED ON DERIVED DATA FROM ANIMAL STUDIES AS A PRE-MARKETING TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT APPROACH WITH GERMAN DATA. In: Value in Health. VALUE IN HEALTH. Vol 11. BLACKWELL PUBLISHING; 2008: A406
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Hospitalisations for Acute Myocardial Infarction - Comparing Data from Three Different Sources
No full textGrobe TG, Gerhardus A, A'Walelu O, Meisinger C, Krauth C. Stationäre Behandlung des Akuten Myokardinfarktes – ein Vergleich unterschiedlicher Datenquellen. Gesundheitswesen. 2008;70(08/09):e37-e46.Information on hospitalisations for acute myocardial infarction from three different sources are compared (national hospital discharge statistics, claims data, registries). The differing results can partly be explained by methodological and regional effects. According to recent legislation, data from statutory sickness funds in Germany are supposed to be merged. This would simplify comparisons and most likely would allow for more valid information regarding the incidence and treatment of many diseases
Mitomycin C in highly myopic eyes - Author reply
No full textOphthalmology. 2005 Feb;112(2):208-18; discussion 219.
Mitomycin C modulation of corneal wound healing after photorefractive keratectomy in highly myopic eyes.
Gambato C, Ghirlando A, Moretto E, Busato F, Midena E.
SourceRefractive Surgery Service and Antimetabolite Therapy Research Unit, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
Abstract
PURPOSE: To evaluate the role of topical mitomycin C in corneal wound healing (CWH) after photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) in highly myopic eyes.
DESIGN: Prospective, double-masked, randomized clinical trial.
PARTICIPANTS: Seventy-two eyes of 36 patients affected by high (>7 diopters) myopia.
METHODS: In each patient, one eye was randomly assigned to PRK with intraoperative topical 0.02% mitomycin C application, and the fellow eye was treated with a placebo. Postoperatively, mitomycin C-treated eyes received artificial tears (3 times daily, tapered in 3 months), whereas the fellow eye was treated with fluorometholone sodium 2% and artificial tears (3 times daily, tapered in 3 months).
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Uncorrected visual acuity (UCVA) and best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA), contrast sensitivity, manifest refraction, and biomicroscopy. Contrast sensitivity was determined using the Pelli-Robson chart. Corneal confocal microscopy documented CWH.
RESULTS: Mean follow-up was 18 months (range, 12-36). No side effects or toxic effects were documented. At 12-month follow-up examination, UCVAs (logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution) were 0.4+/-0.48 and 0.5+/-0.53 (P = .03) in mitomycin C-treated eyes and corticosteroid-treated eyes, respectively. At 1 year, corneal haze developed in 20% of corticosteroid-treated eyes, versus 0% of mitomycin C-treated eyes. At 12, 24, and 36 months, corneal confocal microscopy showed activated keratocytes and extracellular matrix significantly more evident in untreated eyes (Ps = 0.004, 0.024, and 0.046, respectively).
CONCLUSION: Topical intraoperative application of 0.02% mitomycin C can reduce haze formation in highly myopic eyes undergoing PRK.
Comment in
Ophthalmology. 2006 Feb;113(2):357; author reply 357-8
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
Liquid-hexatic transition for soft disks
No full text<p>This dataset provides data files for the equation of state and equilibrium configurations of soft-disk models used in <a href="https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.108.024103">"Liquid-hexatic transition for soft disks" Physical Review E <strong>108</strong>, 024103 (2023) by Yoshihiko Nishikawa, Werner Krauth, and A. C. Maggs.</a> </p>
<p>The following directories are included.</p>
<p>- equation_of_state: This directory includes two CSV files for the equation of state plotted in the paper. <br>
- equilibrium_configuration: This directory includes equilibrium configurations of N = 1024^2 particles of the models studied in the paper. An equilibrium configuration is stored in start.h5, a HDF5 file, together with the parameters for the simulation. By using the CUDA code available at <a href="https://github.com/jellyfysh/SoftDisks">https://github.com/jellyfysh/SoftDisks</a>, you can perform an equilibrium simulation starting from the configuration stored in start.h5.</p>
A Multi-Language Comparison of Influences on Author Verification using Character N-Grams
No full textWe create a new multi-language corpus for author verification based on Wikipedia talkpages, and evaluate the influence that differences in topic and time have on character n-gram author profiles. Topic alignment between two texts is found to increase author verification precision, and an authors writing style is found to change over time, but not more significantly after 3 years than after 1 year.Information ArchitectureWISElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
A 0.12mm<sup>2</sup> Wien-Bridge Temperature Sensor with 0.1°C (3σ) Inaccuracy from -40°C to 180°C
No full text Resistor-based temperature sensors can achieve much higher resolution and energy efficiency than conventional BJT-based sensors [1], but they typically occupy more area (> 0.25 mm 2 ) and have lower operating temperatures (le 125 {circ} {C}) [2]-[4]. This work describes a 0.12mm 2 resistor-based sensor that uses a Wien-bridge (WB) filter to achieve 0.1 {circ} {C} (3 sigma) inaccuracy from - 40 {circ} {C} to 180 {circ} {C}. Compared to a state-of-the-art WB sensor [4], it occupies 6 × less area and achieves comparable relative accuracy over a 76% wider operating range. Session 10.3 Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Electronic InstrumentationMicroelectronic
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