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Tremor and myoclonus: clinical, neurophysiological and neuroimaging phenotypes in children and adolescents
No full textTremor, defined as an involuntary rhythmic oscillatory movement, and myoclonus, characterized by brief, jerk-like movements, are distinct hyperkinetic movement disorders. Despite differences in their pathophysiology and clinical management, tremor and myoclonus are often confused due to their potentially similar presentations.
Tremor and myoclonus are considered uncommon in children and adolescents, and few studies have investigated their causes and clinical features in the pediatric population. Therefore, the spectrum of clinical features and underlying causes of tremor and myoclonus in young patients remains only partially understood. Additionally, classification systems for tremor and myoclonus are largely based on adult-onset conditions, and their clinical applicability in children and adolescents has not yet been tested.
The aim of this thesis is to dissect the phenotype of tremor and myoclonus in children and adolescents.
By assessing a large cohort of patients with childhood-onset tremor and myoclonus, including the collection of clinical, neurophysiological and neuroimaging data, this project aims to address currently unanswered questions about these disorders in children.
First, through a deep analysis of a large pediatric cohort, we tested whether the latest classification of tremor syndromes is applicable to childhood-onset tremor, analyzing specific peculiarities and diagnostic uncertainties. Second, we investigated the clinical phenotype of essential tremor in children, examining its neurophysiological features. Third, we explored whether co-occurring subtle neurological abnormalities in patients with essential tremor ("essential tremor plus") are associated with identifiable anatomical differences in brain volumetry. Fourth, we assessed the role of combined EEG-polymyography in the diagnosis of tremor and myoclonus, evaluating its utility in refining clinical diagnoses. Finally, we investigated the neurophysiological features of myoclonus in a cohort of affected children, focusing on the accuracy of polymyographic recordings in differentiating myoclonus subtypes
Occupational Therapy’s Role in the Criminal Justice System: A Scoping Review
No full textAbstract
Date Presented 4/1/2017
This scoping review maps the range of literature and emerging evidence articulating the role of occupational therapy (OT) in criminal justice systems. Practice guidelines for OT in these settings do not currently exist. This synthesis provides useful data for occupational therapists interested in growing the profession in these settings.
Primary Author and Speaker: Jaime Muñoz
Additional Authors and Speakers: Justin T. McTish, Joelle M. Ruggeri, Gesina Phillips
Contributing Authors: Abigail Catalano</jats:p
Due nuovi ritratti imperiali a Olbia
No full textThe author examines two marble portraits, a male and a female one; they are eaten away and without archaeological context. Thanks to comparison with the other imperial portraits, is possible to recognize Domitianus and Domitia or Iulia Titi
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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