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Evaluation of the promotion of body hygiene in the prevention of infectious diseases in rural milieu in Sénégal
No full textDans cette thèse, nous avons utilisé l’approche culturomique pour explorer le microbiote cutané d'individus en bonne santé. Nous avons isolé 176 bactéries par culturomique. Parmi ceux-ci, nous avons ajouté 58 bactéries au répertoire du microbiote cutané, dont 6 nouvelles espèces isolées pour la première. Dans cette partie nous avons étudié le portage asymptomatique de certaines bactéries pathogènes sur la peau de sujets en bonne santé. Nous avons détecté Streptococcus pneumoniae dans 33,06%, Staphylococcus aureus dans 18,08% et Streptococcus pyogenes dans 1,95% des échantillons. Un portage asymptomatique de S. pneumoniae a été détecté dans plus d'un tiers d'une population rurale en Afrique rurale, ce qui souligne la nécessité de développer des programmes de désinfection des mains afin de réduire la charge des infections. Dans cette partie de la thèse nous avons étudié l’impact de l’utilisation du savon sur l’incidence des infections respiratoires, des fièvres et des bactéries pathogènes sur la peau. Nous avons distribué du savon à la population du village test pour son hygiène quotidienne. Nous avons enregistré quotidiennement les événements cliniques dans les deux villages et ont encouragé l'utilisation du savon dans le village test. En 2016, des réductions significatives des taux d'incidence de la toux, de l'écoulement nasal et de la fièvre ont été observées chez les enfants de moins de 15 ans dans le Ndiop. La prévalence de S. pneumoniae, S. aureus et S. pyogenes dans la paume des mains a chuté de manière significative à Ndiop. L'utilisation du savon à travers le lavage des mains et une hygiène corporelle quotidienne réduit l'incidence des infections respiratoires.In this thesis, we used the culturomic approach to explore the cutaneous microbiota of healthy individuals. We isolated 176 bacteria per culturomic. Of these, we added 58 bacteria to the repertoire of the cutaneous microbiota, including 6 new species isolated for the first one. In this part we studied the asymptomatic carriage of certain pathogenic bacteria on the skin of healthy subjects. We detected Streptococcus pneumoniae in 33.06%, Staphylococcus aureus in 18.08% and Streptococcus pyogenes in 1.95% of the samples.In this part of the thesis we studied the impact of soap use on the incidence of respiratory infections, fevers and pathogenic bacteria on the skin. We distributed soap to the population of the test village for their daily hygiene. We recorded daily clinical events in both villages and encouraged soap use in the test village. In 2016, significant reductions in the incidence rates of cough, runny nose and fever were observed in children under 15 years of age in Ndiop. The prevalence of S. pneumoniae, S. aureus and S. pyogenes in the palms of the hands dropped significantly in Ndiop. The use of soap through hand washing and daily personal hygiene reduces the incidence of respiratory infections
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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