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Gender specific data in patients with acute appendicitis: a single center perspective
No full textBackgroundThe influence of sex, socioeconomic status and other factors on outcomes from acute illness has been found recently with an increasing interest; acute appendicitis is the most frequent urgency in pediatric age. The aim of this study is to show any gender differences. Materials and methodsWe retrospectively analysed the medical records of consecutive patients who underwent surgical exploration for acute appendicitis. Inclusion and exclusion criteria were created. Patient data, demographics, characteristics and outcomes were studied and evaluated on a gender perspective. ResultsAfter reviewing medical charts following the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 364 patients were studied; focusing on final outcomes, it was possible to add news from a gender perspective of appendicitis: gangrenous appendicitis was associated with younger female and older female were more likely to have false positive appendicitis; female had less post-operative pain respect to age-match male for all appendicitis and males had more symptoms respect to females especially for phlegmonous and gangrenous appendicitis. ConclusionsThere is a gender difference in appendicitis; as for adults girls appear to be affected less, have fewer symptoms and have better postoperative result
Gender specific data in patients with acute appendicitis: a single center perspective
No full textThe influence of sex, socioeconomic status and other factors on outcomes from acute illness has been found recently with an increasing interest; acute appendicitis is the most frequent urgency in pediatric age. The aim of this study is to show any gender differences
Newborn with incarcerated inguinal hernia and complete androgen insensitivity syndrome
Full text linkDisorders of sex development represent a large and heterogeneous group of diseases that have an important impact on physical and mental well-being of patients and their families. An early diagnosis and a multidisciplinary approach are fundamental to guarantee the highest standard of care.
We describe a case of complete androgen insensitivity syndrome (CAIS) in a six-days-old female newborn brought to our Emergency Department for intestinal occlusion due to an incarcerated inguinal hernia. During the operation, male-appearing gonads were identified in both inguinal canals and the histology confirmed the testicular features. Blood tests validated the diagnosis.
The diagnosis of CAIS is usually made during elective inguinal hernia repair or for delayed puberty. To our knowledge, this is the first case diagnosed in a neonatal urgent setting. Being able to immediately recognize this clinical picture, it allowed us to offer the best standard of care for the patient and the family
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
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