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Surgical Prevention
No full textThe surgical strategies available today for breast cancer prevention are prophylactic bilateral or unilateral mastectomy and prophylactic bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy
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
Variation of the body composition measured by bioelectrical impedance vector analysis in overweight or obese breast cancer survivors' participants in the INForma trial
No full textIntroduction: Bioelectrical impedance vector analysis (BIVA) is a
non-invasive method for measuring body composition. The
“InForma” trial has been designed to measure improvement of
adherence to a healthy diet and/or to increase physical activity in
order to promote weight loss in overweight or obese breast cancer survivors. Breast cancer survivors frequently face progressive
weight gain and diminution of physical activity.
Objectives: The objective of the study was to achieve loss 5% of the
baseline body weight (BW).
Methods: Two hundred and sixty women were randomized into four
arms: Dietary Intervention (DI); Physical Activity Intervention (PAI);
Physical Activity and Dietary Intervention (PADI); and Less Intensive
Intervention (LII). Intervention included individualized counseling
about diet and/or physical activity, phone calls and group meetings.
Body composition measurements has been repeatedly assessed using
BIVA at baseline, at 6 months and after 2 years.
Results: 231 women (89%) completed the 6-month intervention and 166
(64%) were followed until the end of the study period (2 years). 65
women (28%) reached the study goal (loss 5% of the baseline BW) at the
6-month visit. A higher proportion was observed in the DI arm (24, 37%)
and in the PADI arm (22, 34%) than in the PAI (8, 12%) or LII arm (11, 17%).
Women who achieved the goal experienced on average a BW loss of
-7.3kg in DI, -6.8kg in PADI, -5.0kg in PAI and -5.4kg in LII. In these
women, greater fat mass (FM) loss was measured in DI (-6.2kg) and PADI
(-5.4kg). Instead, women in the PAI arm had the best result in main taining fat free mass (FFM) -0.2kg compared to DI -1.1kg and PADI -1.4kg.
After 2 years, the final average BW for all women was higher than that
measured at the 6th month, but still lower than at baseline (-1.1kg), with
an average FM decrease of -1.8kg, while FFM was almost stable (+0.8kg).
Conclusion: The results of this innovative project suggest that nutri tional counseling seems to be more effective for losing BW and for FM
reduction in overweight or obese breast cancer survivors. Physical
activity counseling seems to be more effective for FM loss, when it is
accompanied by nutritional counseling. The results of this trial provide
useful information for body weight management in breast cancer
survivors
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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