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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
Educazione Professionale in Medicina e Psichiatria
No full textL’educazione del paziente costituisce una attività sanitaria che rap¬presenta parte integrante della gestione dei pazienti affetti da malattie croniche.
Per malattia cronica si intende una patologia caratterizzata dall’es¬sere:
• non guaribile per cui il paziente deve assumere terapia far¬macologica per tutta la vita ed eseguire regolari visite di con¬trollo da parte del personale sanitario ed accertamenti perio-dici
• ad evoluzione incerta e caratterizzata spesso da riacutizzazioni periodiche per cui si rendono necessari ricoveri ospedalieri ed assunzione di ulteriori farmaci,
• in grado di condizionare lo stile e le abitudini di vita dei pa¬zienti.
Per controllare i segni e i sintomi delle malattie croniche e prevenire pertanto ricadute o evoluzioni delle stesse, risulta indispensabile l’in¬tervento medico finalizzato alla prescrizione della terapia più adeguata ed efficace, ma lo scopo della assistenza medica è anche di migliorare la qualità di vita del paziente.
Il paziente stesso ha un ruolo attivo nella gestione e nel trattamento della malattia cronica in quanto solo una adeguata compliance, cioè re¬golare adesione alle terapie farmacologiche e alle prescrizioni mediche permette di raggiungere gli obiettivi prefissati.
Da qui emerge pertanto la necessità di condurre un processo di edu¬cazione terapeutica del paziente affetto da malattia cronica che si pre¬figge come scopo quello di responsabilizzare il paziente ad assumere un ruolo attivo nella gestione della propria malattia.
L’educazione del paziente e dei suoi famigliari è un processo gra¬duale, integrato al processo terapeutico, che comprende un insieme di attività di sensibilizzazione, informazione, apprendimento all’auto-ge¬stione, educazione ed aiuto psicologico e sociale, concerne la malattie, le cure, la terapia, l’organizzazione, le attività ospedaliere, i comporta¬menti relativi al miglioramento della salute ed alla gestione della ma¬Iattia cronica.
L’educazione dovrebbe permettere ai pazienti di acquisire e con¬servare capacità e competenze che consentano di affrontare il rapporto malattia/vita quotidiana, proponendosi pertanto di aiutare il paziente e la sua famiglia a comprendere la malattia, a collaborare durante la cura, a gestire il proprio stato di salute e di dipendenza dal curante e a favorire un ritorno alle normali attività o almeno al migliore stato di salute accettabile da parte del paziente (OMS, 1998).
La relazione con il paziente diventa pertanto uno dei principali fat¬tori per il buon esito della terapia, in quanto integra l’informazione e la formazione e ciò favorisce una evoluzione del rapporto operatore sanitario-paziente, talvolta autoritario, altre volte paternalistico.
Le malattie croniche più frequenti in ambito gastroenterologi’20 o le situazioni croniche che necessitano di adeguata educazione del pa¬ziente al fine di garantire i risultati attesi possono essere considerate le seguenti:
1) la cirrosi epatica,
2) il trapianto di fegato,
3) le malattie infiammatorie croniche intestinali (Colite Ulcerosa e Malattia di Crohn)
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
Quality of Life After Restorative Proctocolectomy for Ulcerative Colitis
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Quality of life after restorative proctocolectomy for ulcerative colitis - Different questionnaires lead to different interpretations
Author(s): Scarpa, M (Scarpa, Marco); Ruffolo, C (Ruffolo, Cesare); Polese, L (Polese, Lino); Martin, A (Martin, Alessandro); D'Inca, R (D'Inca, Renata); Sturniolo, GC (Sturniolo, Giacomo C.); D'Amico, DF (D'Amico, Davide F.); Angriman, I (Angriman, Imerio)
Source: ARCHIVES OF SURGERY Volume: 142 Issue: 2 Pages: 158-165 DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.142.2.158 Published: FEB 2007
Times Cited: 15 (from Web of Science)
Cited References: 34 [ view related records ] Citation Map
Abstract: Background: According to some researchers, health-related quality-of-life scores for patients who undergo restorative proctocolectomy (RPC) for ulcerative colitis (UC) are comparable to those of healthy control subjects. Other studies show evidence that patients who undergo RPC experience a health-related quality of life similar to patients with mild UC or UC in remission.
Hypothesis: The discrepancy in health-related quality of-life scores among studies may be due to different health-related quality-of-life analyses.
Design: Cross-sectional study.
Setting: Outpatient clinic of a tertiary care center.
Patients: In the first phase of the study, we consecutively enrolled 24 patients with UC, 24 patients with Crohn disease, and 24 healthy controls. In the second phase of the study, 40 patients who underwent RPC, 43 patients with UC, and 44 controls were consecutively enrolled.
Interventions: We administered an Italian version of the Cleveland Global Quality of Life (CGQL) instrument, the Padova Inflammatory Bowel Disease Quality of Life instrument, and the Italian 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey.
Main Outcome Measures: We evaluated the construct. validity, internal consistency, test-retest reliability, sensitivity to change, and discriminant ability of the Italian CGQL instrument. We compared its discriminative ability with that of the Padova Inflammatory Bowel Disease Quality of Life instrument.
Results: The Italian CGQL instrument obtained good construct validity, internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and sensitivity to change. The Italian CGQL score did not distinguish patients who underwent RPC from healthy controls and those with mild UC or UC in remission, while the Padova Inflammatory Bowel Disease Quality of Life instrument reported similar scores for patients who underwent RPC and those with mild UC or UC in remission, and showed a difference vs healthy controls.
Conclusions: We validated an Italian version of the CGQL score. The different results obtained with the CGQL and the Padova Inflammatory Bowel Disease Quality of Life instruments can be attributed to the different discriminative ability of the 2 questionnaires
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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