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Social inequalities and pediatric type 1 diabetes: a study of the association between social deprivation, measured at both the individual
No full textMalgré l’avènement de nouvelles technologies améliorant la prise en charge du diabète de type 1 (DT1), de nombreux enfants et adolescents ne répondent pas aux objectifs fixés d'hémoglobine glyquée (HbA1c). Nous avons étudié l'impact du désavantage social sur la trajectoire d'HbA1c après le diagnostic de DT1. Méthodes : Une étude de cohorte rétrospective était menée chez des enfants et adolescents avec un DT1 diagnostiqué entre 2017 et 2020 au Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) de Bordeaux. Le désavantage social était apprécié par un indicateur individuel, le score EPICES, et un indicateur écologique, le score EDI. Des modèles linéaires à effets mixtes par morceaux étaient utilisés pour estimer l'effet du désavantage social sur la trajectoire d'HbA1c. Résultats : Un total de 168 patients était inclus dans l’étude. Le groupe le plus défavorisé comprenait 29 % des patients selon le score EPICES et 22 % selon le score EDI. Ces deux indicateurs étaient peu corrélés. La trajectoire d’HbA1c différait selon le niveau de désavantage social. A court terme, les sujets avec un plus haut niveau de désavantage social individuel (EPICES ≥ 30,17) avaient une diminution de l’HbA1c plus faible. A long terme, la trajectoire était influencée par le désavantage social écologique (score EDI) : les sujets les moins défavorisés (quintile 1) avaient des valeurs moyennes d’HbA1c plus stables. Conclusion : Le désavantage social pourrait expliquer en partie un moins bon équilibre glycémique chez certains de nos patients. D’autres travaux sont nécessaires pour évaluer comment intégrer ce facteur dans notre stratégie thérapeutique.Despite the advent of new technologies improving the management of type 1 diabetes (T1D), many children and adolescents do not meet glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) targets. We investigated the impact of social deprivation on the HbA1c trajectory after diagnosis of T1D. Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted in children and adolescents with T1D diagnosed between 2017 and 2020 at Bordeaux University Hospital. Social deprivation was assessed by two measures: an individual indicator, the EPICES score, and an ecological indicator, the EDI score. Piecewise linear mixed-effects models were used to estimate the effect of social deprivation on HbA1c trajectory. Results: A total of 168 patients were included. The most disadvantaged group comprised 29% of patients according to the EPICES score and 22% according to the EDI score. These two indicators were poorly correlated. The HbA1c trajectory differed according to the level of social deprivation. In the short term after diagnosis, subjects with a higher level of social individual deprivation (EPICES ≥30.17) had a smaller decrease in HbA1c. In the long-term, the trajectory was influenced by area-level deprivation (EDI score) : the least disadvantaged subjects (quintile 1) had more stable mean HbA1c values. Conclusion: Social deprivation may partly explain poorer glycemic control in some of our patients. Further work is needed to evaluate how to integrate this factor in our therapeutic strategy
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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