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Should non pharmacological and non-invasive interventions be used to treat neuropathic pain in adults with spinal cord injury? - A Systematic Review
No full textSpinal Cord Injuries (SCI) results in a permanent or temporary alteration of the motor, sensory and/or autonomic functions, frequently leading to neuropathic pain. To deal with this comorbidity, several non-pharmacological and non-invasive (NP-NI) interventions have been developed. However, their efficacy is still uncertain. The aim of this study was to systematically synthetize the available evidence assessing the efficacy of NP-NI interventions for treating neuropathic pain in people with SCI. An electronic search was conducted in five databases (Pubmed, Scopus, Cochrane Central, Web of Science and EBSCO) and trials registry databases, in addition to a manual search strategy to retrieve additional records. The review included randomized experimental studies including adults with SCI, in any stage of the condition. Data on the efficacy of the interventions was narratively synthetized. Of the 4853 identified references, 24 were included with a total of 653 participants with SCI and exclusively neuropathic pain, mostly male and with paraplegia. These studies investigated the Effect of 13 groups of NO-NI interventions with diferente protocols and methodological limitations. Seven diferente assessment scales were analyzed, with neuropathic pain being the primary outcome in 21 studies. Such high heterogeneity impaired the conduction of meta-analysis for any of interventions. Promising results were found regarding short, médium and long-team analgesic Effect of NP-NI interventivos on neuropathic pain in people with SCI. However, i tis not yet possible to safely state that these interventions are really effective. Further studies with homogeneous protocols and methodological quality are still needed
The effect of an adapted training protocol on ankle joint mobility in young soccer players
No full textBACKGROUND: Soccer practice can induce marked changes in ankle joint mobility (AJM) with dreaded consequences. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of an adapted training protocol (TP) on the AJM of young soccer players.
METHODS: In 31 male soccer players (age 13.2±0.5 years) and in 31 volleyball players matched for age, sex, and Body Mass Index, AJM was evaluated by using an inclinometer while the inclination of the leg on the sagittal plane was assessed by analysis of images. Soccer players performed two months (10 sessions) of a TP that included 4 exercises aimed at improving AJM.
RESULTS: At baseline, soccer players showed reduced AJM compared to volleyball players (127.6±15.3° vs. 141.0±20.5°; P<0.01) and a minor angle between leg and foot when evaluated in lying position (294.4±13.2° vs. 304.3±9.8°; P<0.001). TP produced a significant positive effect on ankle range of motion (ROM) in plantar flexion (P<0.001) but not in dorsiflexion. The limb of measurement (dominant-nondominant) did not affect AJM. The foot posture of subjects in lying supine was in dorsiflexion compared to controls (P<0.001).
CONCLUSIONS: Young soccer players showed a significant reduction in AJM, which was difficult to recover, even following a TP. These results indicate that further studies in this field are neede
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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