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Age Is Predictive of Immediate Postoperative Urinary Continence after Radical Retropubic Prostatectomy
No full textIntroduction: Immediate continence is a goal to take into consideration for better patient satisfaction after radical prostatectomy. Factors predicting urinary continence at catheter removal were investigated. Materials and Methods: We evaluated preoperative, operative, clinical, hormonal and pathological variables in a homogeneous series of radical retropubic prostatectomies (RRPs) following the principles of urinary sphincter restoration technique. Results: The study included 201 patients who underwent RRP. The overall immediate continence rate at catheter removal was 67.7% (136 patients); 28.8% (58 patients) were using one protective pad daily and 3.5% (7 patients) were incontinent. At 6-month follow-up incontinence had reached the lowest level of 2.5% (5 patients) and at 12 months the patients using one pad daily had decreased to 11.9% (24 patients). Multivariate logistic analysis showed that the only two factors independently associated with immediate continence were age <65 years (OR = 2.63, 95% CI 1.13-5.88, p = 0.02) and potency (OR = 3.6, 95% CI 1.2-10.7, p = 0.01) adjusting for D'Amico risk group, surgical margins, extracapsular extension, clinical stage, PSA, testosterone, LH and FSH. No significant association was noted for PSA, hormonal levels, hospital stay, prostate size, clinical stage, risk group, TNM stage, pathological Gleason score or extracapsular extension. Conclusions: In our series age <65 years was associated with immediate continence after RRP. Moreover, patients who were immediately continent had a 3.6-fold probability to be potent within 12 months
Intravesical mitomycin C combined with local microwave hyperthermia in non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer with increased European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) score risk of recurrence and progression.
No full textPurpose: To assess the activity of intravesical chemotherapy and local microwave hyperthermia (ICLMH) in increasing the disease-free interval (DFI) in patients with non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) and treatment toxicity. Methods: Forty-two patients with a diagnosis of high-risk NMIBC, according to the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) criteria, were treated with an intensive schedule of ICLMH using 40 mg mitomycin C. The treatment consisted of 4 weekly sessions, followed by 6 sessions delivered every 2 weeks, and by 4 monthly sessions, for a total of 14 sessions over 8 months. The DFIs before and after treatment were compared in each patient. Results: The schedule was completed as planned by 32 patients (76.2 %). The percentage of disease-free patients the year before study was 14.9 % (95 % CI 5.5-28.8) versus 88.8 % (95 % CI 73.7-94.8) after ICLMH (p < 0.0001). Patient EORTC scores, multifocality, and tumour stage were all associated significantly and independently with a higher risk of recurrence after ICLMH treatment with HR of 41.1 (p = 0.01), 17.7 (p = 0.02), and 8.5 (p = 0.02), respectively. After a median follow-up of 38 months, 24 patients (57.1 %) did not show evidence of disease, whereas 13 patients (30.9 %) underwent disease recurrence and 5 patients (11.9 %) showed also stage progression. Toxicity consisted in grades 1 and 2 frequency, non-infectious cystitis, and haematuria. Conclusions: ICLMH significantly increases the DFI of NMIBC patients with high EORTC score for recurrence and progression. Toxicity of the intensive treatment schedule was generally mild
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
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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