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MEDICAL DEVICE, IMMUNOASSAY METHOD AND TEST FOR DETECTING PROLIFERATIVE DIABETIC RETINOPATHY
No full textThe present invention relates to a medical device (1) comprising three pathways (3, 4, 5), wherein each pathway is extending between a first zone (6) intended to receive a sample in the liquid form and an end zone (7) having an absorbent portion, wherein each pathway comprises the following zones, all extending between the first zone and the end zone: a catch zone (8) loaded with a predetermined amount of a predetermined protein, wherein the protein is constituted by TNF-alpha, Lactoferrin and Lipocalin-1, respectively; a conjugate zone (9) arranged upstream of the catch zone, loaded with a respective antibody bounded to an indicator means, wherein the antibody is specific for the TNF-alpha, Lactoferrin and Lipocalin-1 proteins, respectively; and a control zone (10) arranged downstream of the catch zone, loaded with an anti-immunoglobulin species-specific antibody, the invention relates also to an immunoassay method and test of the TNF-alpha, Lipocalin-1 and Lactoferrin proteins for detecting proliferative diabetic retinopathy in a patient
Driving to the Future
No full textThis book was written assuming that car driving, likely also racing car driving, will became obsolete while autonomous vehicles will be developed with technology progresses. However, the good legacy of these activities will stay forever and driving among life choices will certainly continue to be a fundamental feature of human nature. Actually, driving between good and bad is what an “Auriga Virtutum", a Charioteer of the Virtues, is expected to do using his free will. The book reports the feelings of a Formula One follower about drivers and championship seasons of the last fifty years. Following these competitions and all involved people may be not only pleasant and interesting, but it can also become a way to generally think over the goal of life and the sense of living, certainly this being just one possible way to do that among many others. While this effort is not specifically targeted to people interested to Formula One, hopefully it will be worth to read it also for them. Likely, it was possibly opportune to write a book about these subjects, but that it would also be much more important if anybody will find it useful to read
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
Functional Interference of Dexamethasone on Some Morphine Effects: Hypothesis for the Steroid-Opioid Interaction: An Updated
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