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Exploring Illness Uncertainty and Treatment-Specific Optimism Among Individuals with Refractory and Relapsed Hairy Cell Leukemia.
No full textHairy Cell Leukemia (HCL) is a rare form of leukemia that invades the spleen and bone marrow causing severe pancytopenia. Little is known about the HCL patients' perception on illness uncertainty and treatment-specific optimism. Purpose: This study aims to explore correlations between uncertainty in illness and treatment-optimism and to present the descriptive summary of numerical and categorical data analysis in patients with relapsed and refractory HCL. Methods: Mishel's uncertainty in illness-community form (MUIS-C) and Cohen's treatment-optimism (CTO) questionnaires were used through a mail survey method. A total of 31 participants completed the questionnaires from a phase II study at the National Cancer Institute, NIH. Data were analyzed using descriptive summary statistics and Pearson correlations. Results: Both MUIS-C (propto=0.85) and CTO (propto=0.84) were tested for reliability with Cronbach's coefficient. The total score for MUIS-C showed a moderately negative correlation with the total score for CTO (Pearson's r=-0.61, p=0.000). Conclusions: The negative Pearson's r-value indicated an inverse relationship between MUIS-C and CTO. This finding is consistent with other cancer related uncertainty-optimism studies where patients with higher disease uncertainty exhibit lower levels of optimism. Future work should focus on a larger sample and factor analyses to examine variability among observed variables with focus on identifying specific factors that affect uncertainty and optimism
New InterCity-station “Rotterdam-Zuid”: Infrastructure in Architecture
No full textStationbuilding in Rotterdam South.Hybrid BuildingsArchitectureArchitectur
EASY Usage Statistics
No full textHet instituut DANS heeft als grootste doel het opslaan en beschikbaar stellen van onderzoeksgegevens. Sinds januari 2005 hebben zij een programma genaamd EASY in gebruik waarin dit soort gegevens als dataset worden opgeslagen en weer opgevraagd kunnen worden. Gebruikers kunnen zich voor deze service registreren en kunnen dan zelf hun eigen werk ook deponeren. Omdat de omvang van het gebruik zo snel gegroeid is heeft men de laatste tijd behoefte aan informatie betreffende het gebruik van de applicatie. De enige manier om in het huidige systeem informatie hierover te kunnen vinden is door ingewikkelde database queries te schrijven wat veel tijd kost en niet handig is voor de beheerders van EASY omdat ze dan eerst de databasetaal SQL moeten gaan leren. Het doel van onze opdracht is om een web-applicatie te maken die de beheerders van EASY alle nodige informatie d.m.v. een paar clickjes met de muis kan tonen. Dit hebben we gedaan door eerst een vooronderzoek te doen en daarna middels eXtreme Programming[6] en wekelijkse vergaderingen de webapplicatie te bouwen. Bij eXtreme Programming begin je na het vaststellen van de requirements gelijk met programmeren, je hebt wekelijkse vergaderingen(Planning games) waar samen met de opdrachtgever gediscussieerd wordt welke requirements de week daarop geïmplementeerd gaan worden. Het uiteindelijke product(Easy Usage Statistics) werkt als volgt: Bij het inloggen op EUS krijg je een algemeen scherm te zien met daarin gelijk de belangrijkste informatie zoals b.v. meeste downloads, meeste deposits, soorten ingevoerde zoektermen, laatste 10 bekeken datasets etc. Verder hebben we aan de zijkant een menu waarin je kunt kiezen uit Home(startpagina), User statistics, AIP statistics, Category statistics, Help, About en Back to EASY. Verder hebben wij nog nagedacht over onze webapplicatie binnen het nieuwe EASY project Fedora en hebben we gekeken naar mogelijke uitbreidingen op EUS in de toekomst.Media and Knowledge EngineeringElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
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