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    Diffusive author(s), cohesive author: Analysis of S/N (1994)

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    This study indicates the ways in which various aspects of the author(s) are brought forth in Dumb type’s performance art, the S/N production. Previous research has suggested a non-hierarchical organization of Dumb type and the absence of a “privileged author” in Dumb type’s collaborative work, S/N. However, the results that I have investigated from member’s interviews on the creative process of S/N along with my analysis of the recorded images of S/N, indicate a different aspect of the author(s). First, S/N was created through, so to speak, the collective ideas of the members of Dumb type. Further, S/N has at least nine quotations from previous performances, installations, and printed writings, besides the work-in-progress technique. Explicating one of the “author functions” as given by Michel Foucault, each text has plural subjects of the author. However, it has been revealed from members’ interviews that Teiji Furuhashi had a decision-making role in selecting the members’ ideas within the performance. Since then, S/N has had plural subjects of creation; however, Furuhashi is one of the subjects of creation along with the “privileged author.” S/N has plural authors (diffusive authors) yet at the same time, it has a “privileged author,” Teiji Furuhashi (cohesive author)

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

    Isolation and chemoantibiotic resistance of Ureaplasma urealyticum in HIV-1 infected patients

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    The presence of Ureaplasma urealyticum was evaluated on 1912 vaginal and urethral swabs from HIV-1 seronegative (HIV-) inpatients (210) and outpatients (503) suffering from acute urethritis or vaginitis; asymptomatic HIV- outpatients (201); and asymptomatic HIV-1 seropositive (HIV+) inpatients (120). The study reported an increased frequency of Ureaplasma urealyticum isolates in asymptomatic HIV+ compared to asymptomatic HIV- subjects. As expected, the frequency of Ureaplasma urealyticum isolates increased in symptomatic HIV- subjects. Strains of Ureaplasma urealyticum resistant to ciprofloxacin , tetracycline and minocycline were more frequently isolated in HIV+ (34.1%) than HIV- (3.8%) subjects; on the other hand, only 1 out of 704 (0.1%) strains isolated from outpatients was resistant to ciprofloxacin. We found no association in HIV+ patients between Ureaplasma urealyticum infection and CD4 count or HIV-1 p24 antigenemia
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