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Level of NICU Qualità of Developmental Care and Neurobehavioral Performance in Very Preterm Infants.
No full textOBJECTIVE: To examine the relation between the neurobehavior of very
preterm infants and the level of NICU quality of developmental care.
METHODS: The neurobehavior of 178 very preterm infants (gestational
age #29 weeks and/or birth weight #1500 g) from 25 NICUs
participating in a large multicenter, longitudinal study (Neonatal
Adequate Care for Quality of Life, NEO-ACQUA) was examined with
a standardized neurobehavioral assessment, the NICU Network
Neurobehavioral Scale (NNNS). A questionnaire, the NEO-ACQUA Quality
of Care Checklist was used to evaluate the level of developmental care in
each of the NICUs. A factor analyses applied to NEO-ACQUA Quality of Care
Checklist produced 2 main factors: (1) the infant-centered care (ICC)
index, which measures parents’ involvement in the care of their infant
and other developmentally oriented care interventions, and (2) the infant
pain management (IPM) index, which measures the NICU approach to
and the procedures used for reducing infant pain. The relations between
NNNS neurobehavioral scores and the 2 indexes were evaluated.
RESULTS: Infants from NICUs with high scores on the ICC evidenced higher
attention and regulation, less excitability and hypotonicity, and lower
stress/abstinence NNNS scores than infants from low-care units.
Infants from NICUs with high scores on the IPM evidenced higher
attention and arousal, lower lethargy and nonoptimal reflexes NNNS
scores than preterm infants from low-scoring NICUs.
CONCLUSIONS: Very preterm infant neurobehavior was associated
with higher levels of developmental care both in ICC and in IPM, suggesting
that these practices support better neurobehavioral stability
Measuring maternal stress and perceived support in 25 Italian NICUs
No full textAims: To determine the validity and reliability of the Parental Stressor Scale: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (PSS: NICU) and the Nurse Parental Support Tool (NPST) for use with Italian parents; to investigate to which extent demographic variables and ⁄ or situational factors affect NICU-related maternal stress.
Methods: Mothers (N = 156) of very preterm (VPT) infants from 25 Italian NICUs
completed a socio-demographic form, the PSS: NICU and the NPST at discharge. Psychometric properties of both tools were evaluated.
Results: High internal consistency and split-half reliability were found for both measures. The multi-dimensional structure of the PSS:NICU was confirmed. Alteration in parental role emerged as the greatest source of NICU-related stress. Length of stay in NICU and familiar socio-economic status explained partial variance in the PSS: NICU scores. NPST score mitigates the stress because of the infant’s appearance and behaviour, but not that related to the parental role alteration.
Conclusions: PSS: NICU and NPST demonstrated adequate psychometric properties in a large sample of Italian mothers. The need for a psychologically informed support to NICU mothers is suggested
Internalizing behaviors at 18 months in children born very preterm associated with quality of developmental care in 22 Italian Neonatal Intensive Care Units. Data from the NEO-ACQUA Study
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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
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