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Supplementary Material to ‘Subtotal cholecystectomy: results of a single-centre, registry-based retrospective cohort study of 180 adults in 2011–2018’
No full textA cholecystectomy is a standard treatment for symptomatic cholecystolithiasis. Significantly less focus, however, is given to subtotal cholecystectomy (STC), the alternative procedure to conventional cholecystectomy in extraordinary surgical situations. We produced a multi-aspectual report that aims to reduce the STC-specific knowledge gap and inform clinical decision-making strategies.
The Supplementary Material is organised into broad sections that follow the structure of the main paper. It provides further introductory and methodological detail. It contains data within the 109 tables and 53 figures that are complementary and directly relevant to the article content. It offers the comprehensive descriptions of results for the cohort of 180 patients and its six subgroups stratified by surgical setting (elective/non-elective), surgical approach (open/laparoscopic), and type of completion of the procedure (reconstituting/fenestrating). The core of the main paper is formed around these tables and figures.
We used three methods to improve the search, visibility, and readability of the information provided in the main text of the Supplementary Material and each page containing the STC figure or STC table. First, each reference to the STC figure or STC table within the main text of the Supplementary Material is in blue letters. Second, each page with STC figure or STC table contains a reference to a section of the main text of the Supplementary Material, in which the comments on an individual figure or table are provided. Third, key points related to individual STC table or STC figure are provided below each table or figure.
The style of terms of the supplemental content conforms to the rest of the paper
Supplemental Data Content to 'Data from 81 cases of subtotal cholecystectomy used to generate a multiple logistic model prediction model for postoperative bile leak'
No full textThis is the supplemental data content for the original paper titled “Multiple logistic regression model to predict bile leak associated with subtotal cholecystectomy” (Surg Endosc 2023 Apr 4:1–9. DOI: 10.1007/s00464-023-10049-2. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37016083; PMCID: PMC10072799), and data article titled “Data from 81 cases of subtotal cholecystectomy used to generate a multiple logistic model prediction model for postoperative bile leak”. The study was reported according to the preferred reporting of case series in surgery (PROCESS) and transparent reporting of a multivariable prediction model for individual prognosis or diagnosis (TRIPOD) guidelines. The data are presented by FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles. Multivariable logistic regression revealed two independent predictors of bile leak associated with subtotal cholecystectomy: open-tract STC (odds ratio [OR], 7.07; 95% confidence interval [CI], 2.191–25.89; P = 0.0170) and acute cholecystitis (OR, 5.449; 95% CI, 1.584–23.48; P = 0.0121). The area under the receiver-operating characteristic curve was 82.11% (95% CI, 72.87–91.34; P < 0.0001). Tjur’s pseudo-R2 was 0.3189, and the Hosmer–Lemeshow goodness-of-fit statistic was 4.916 (P = 0.7665).This supplement for the Mendeley repository provides further details to reproduce the study results. It is organised into sections that follow the structure of the articles. It contains 9 tables
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe 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
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
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
Letter from R. R. Zellick, Assistant Trust Officer, Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco, to Joseph R. Goodman, October 2, 1942
No full textLetter from R. R. Zellick, Assistant Trust Officer at The Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco, to Joseph R. Goodman, regarding property owned by Dave Tatsuno. Zellick mentions a dispute between current tenants and Tatsuno, and that Tatsuno has asked Goodman to help locate trustworthy tenants.Personal correspondence, organizational records, government documents, publications, and other papers created or collected by Joseph R. Goodman documenting the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, as well as organized resistance to incarceration. Included in the collection are records of the Japanese Young Men's Christian Association and the Japanese American Citizens' League in San Francisco, including papers of the Japanese YMCA's executive secretary Lincoln Kanai; Sakai family papers; Goodman's correspondence to and from Japanese American incarcerees, organizations opposing forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, the War Relocation Authority, and others; publications, photographs, and ephemera from the Topaz Relocation Center, where Goodman taught high school; War Relocation Authority records and publications; and newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and reports about forced removal and incarceration created by various government, religious, and civic organizations, in California and nationwide
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
Liftings for noncomplete probability spaces
No full textThe current state of knowledge concerning liftings for noncomplete probability spaces is discussed. This is a somewhat expanded version of the author's talk given at the 1991 Summer Conference on General Topology and Applications in Honor of Mary Ellen Rudin and Her Work.PT: S; CR: BURKE MR, IN PRESS P AM MATH S BURKE MR, 1991, ISRAEL J MATH, V73, P33 BURKE MR, 1992, ISRAEL J MATH, V79, P289 CARLSON T, THEOREM LIFTING CHRISTENSEN JPR, 1974, TOPOLOGY BOREL STRUC FREMLIN DH, 1989, HDB BOOLEAN ALGEBRAS, P877 INOESCUTULCEA A, 1966, 5TH P BERK S MATH ST, V2 IONESCUTULCEA A, 1967, CONTRIBUTIONS PROB 1, P63 IONESCUTULCEA A, 1969, TOPICS THEORY LIFTIN JECH TJ, 1978, SET THEORY JOHNSON RA, 1980, P AM MATH SOC, V80, P234 JUST W, IN PRESS T AM MATH S KUPKA J, 1983, INDIANA U MATH J, V32, P717 LOSERT V, 1983, LNM, V1080, P95 MAHARAM D, 1958, P AM MATH SOC, V9, P987 SHELAH S, 1983, ISRAEL J MATH, V45, P90 TALAGRAND M, 1982, P AM MATH SOC, V84, P379 VONNEUMANN J, 1931, CRELLES J MATH, V165, P109; NR: 18; TC: 0; J9: ANN N Y ACAD SCI; PG: 4; GA: BZ86BSource type: Electronic(1
Hansen, Lee (Lee R.). Union, non-union, and managerial pay plan state employees, 2008-2019
No full text1 online resource (2 pages)"July 1, 2021."Provides the number of union and non-union state employees in each of the last 14 years. Also provides the number of state employees paid under the state's managerial pay plan during each of those years. Updates OLR research report 2019-R-011
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