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Supplemental Material, DS1_VET_10.1177_0300985818798094 - Tumor Thickness and Modified Clark Level in Canine Cutaneous Melanocytic Tumors
No full textSupplemental Material, DS1_VET_10.1177_0300985818798094 for Tumor Thickness and Modified Clark Level in Canine Cutaneous Melanocytic Tumors by Serenella Silvestri, Ilaria Porcellato, Luca Mechelli, Laura Menchetti, Sofia Rapastella, and Chiara Brachelente in Veterinary Pathology</p
Supplemental Material, DS1_VET_10.1177_0300985818808530 - FoxP3 and IDO in Canine Melanocytic Tumors
No full textSupplemental Material, DS1_VET_10.1177_0300985818808530 for FoxP3 and IDO in Canine Melanocytic Tumors by Ilaria Porcellato, Chiara Brachelente, Livia De Paolis, Laura Menchetti, Serenella Silvestri, Monica Sforna, Gaia Vichi, Selina Iussich, and Luca Mechelli in Veterinary Pathology</p
A Comparative Study of Intramuscular Alfaxalone- or Ketamine-Based Anesthetic Mixtures in Gray Squirrels Undergoing Gonadectomy: Clinical and Physiologic Findings
Full text linkThe gray squirrel is one of the most common invasive species in Europe, whose presence is dangerous for the survival of the European red squirrel. To cope with this biological invasion and to safeguard biodiversity, the LIFE+U-SAVEREDS project aims to protect the red squirrel, by limiting the growth of the current population of gray squirrels and simultaneously promoting their eradication with surgical sterilization. This study compares two different anesthetic protocols, including dexmedetomidine (40 μg/kg) and midazolam (0.3 mg/kg) associated with ketamine (15 mg/kg; n = 25 squirrels) or alfaxalone (5 mg/kg; n = 22 squirrels). A blinded investigator evaluated the quality and onset of sedation, intraoperative anesthesia, and recovery, as well as the physiologic parameters for each animal. Alfaxalone provided a good quality of anesthesia with limited cardiovascular effects (p < 0.05) and good intraoperative myorelaxation. Ketamine induced complete relaxation in a shorter time (p < 0.05) and a rapid (p < 0.001) and excellent (p < 0.05) recovery. Despite the overall superiority of ketamine, alfaxalone appeared to be an adequate alternative anesthetic drug that can be administered without requiring intravascular access. It should be rapidly metabolized and excreted; however, it requires the combination of longer acting sedatives/myorelaxants to prevent a poor recovery quality
An innovative tool for assessing welfare of camels
No full textWhilst there are many tools for the assessment of welfare in livestock, there is none for camels. This study aimed therefore to pilot a method for assessing the welfare status of camels using animal-, resource- and management-based indicators at a camel market in Qatar. Adapting the AWIN protocol, data
related to housing, feeding, health, and behaviour were collected at three levels: caretaker, herd, and animal. The Caretaker level was an interview exploring the caretaker’s background, experience, and routine management practices. The Herd level was a check of the herd and of the place (i.e. box/pen) where camels were kept. At the Animal level, BCS, health, and behavioral parameters were recorded from 2 animals/pens, randomly selected. The number of animals/pens varied (average: 7, range: 1–37 animals) with a total population of 528 animals. The size of the pen was variable
(26–256 m2), and consequently the space allowance varied from 2.5 to 34 m2/animal. The environmental temperature was high (average: 42 °C, range: 37–50 °C) and when in the paddock there was a shelter (86%) the camels moved into the shade (313/528 animals). In all paddock, there was a water point, but the water was often not available (22%), dirty (41%), or warm (max:42.9 °C); the majority of the camels therefore drunk when clean and fresh water was offered (bucket test latency time: median =8 sec, IQR =3–40 sec). BCS varied and was rarely optimal (median =2, IQR =2–3). Most of the animals (89%, p < .001) were free of movements (1% tied, 10% hobbled). However, many animals were not free from disease (38%), injuries (5%), scars
(7%), and cauterization (38%). Skin diseases were the most common health problems (28%; p < .001), followed by respiratory diseases (4%). The majority of the animals showed a good human-animal relationship (friendly, 48%, or neutral, 30%, approach; p < .001), and no stereotypes were noted. However, some animals were aggressive (6%), when they were old, in pain (2%), or distressed (8%). The caretaker came mainly from Sudan (91%; p < .001), with experience in camel handling often learned by father-son tradition (82%; p < .001) and for many of them, animal welfare was ‘treat the animals gently, feeding and watering them’. This was a preliminary study to pilot a tool to assess welfare in camels; further studies are needed to validate this tool
in other camel farms worldwide
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
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