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Airway management for oral cancer surgery: a multidisciplinary patient-based approach is needed
No full textDeterminazione della velocità e della direzione di deflusso di una falda freatica in un sito dell'alta pianura veneta mediante l'impiego di metodologie geofisiche
No full textRe: Franclim R. Ribeiro, Rui Henrique, Ana T. Martins, Carmen Jerónimo and Manuel R. Teixeira. Relative copy number gain of MYC in diagnostic needle biopsies is an independent prognostic factor for prostate cancer patients
No full textRevisiting Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome ventilation management: Time for a paradigm shift focusing on tidal volume
No full textAcute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) remains a critical challenge in intensive care medicine, with persistently high mortality despite decades of research and advancements in supportive therapies. Mechanical ventilation, particularly low tidal volume (VT) strategies, has become the cornerstone of ARDS management; however, emerging evidence suggests that a uniform application of these approaches may not be universally beneficial. This viewpoint critically examines the evolution of ARDS ventilation strategies, from high VT methods to protective ventilation protocols centered on reduced VT and plateau pressures. It explores the limitations of current guidelines, highlighting how global parameters such as VT and driving pressure (Delta P) may inadequately capture the complex and heterogeneous pathophysiology of ARDS. Concepts like mechanical power, compliancebased ventilation, and transpulmonary pressure offer promising avenues for more personalized care but remain underutilized in clinical practice. Additionally, this viewpoint underscores the significance of heart-lung interactions and the impact of ventilator settings on cardiovascular function, further complicating one-size-fits-all approaches. Ultimately, this work calls for a reassessment of existing paradigms, advocating for individualized, physiology-driven strategies that move beyond population-based protocols to better address the nuanced needs of ARDS patients
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
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