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Associação entre a intensidade de hemólise, marcadores genéticos e evolução clínica em pacientes com doença falciforme
No full textOrientador: Fernando Ferreira CostaTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Ciências MédicasResumo: Diversas hipóteses têm sido propostas para explicar a diversidade clínica da doença falciforme (DF). Estas incluem a classificação de um sub-fenótipo hemolítico e sugerem a potencial contribuição de marcadores genéticos. No entanto, estes não são explicam totalmente as expressões fenotípicas observadas nos pacientes com DF, assim, há a necessidade de buscar por mais marcadores candidatos para a DF. Este é um estudo de correlação fenotípica com alguns marcadores hemolíticos conhecidos e desconhecidos dentre os pacientes com DF. Este estudo avaliou a relação entre micropartículas eritrocitárias e outros marcadores tradicionais de hemólise com os fenótipos clínicos de 138 brasileiros com DF, após consentimento, sendo 78 HbSS (63 em uso de hidroxiureia, 15 sem o uso da medicação), 12 HbS-Beta0 talassemia, 12 HbS-Beta+ talassemia e 36 HbSC sem uso de hidroxiurea e em estado estacionário da doença. Ainda, 110 crianças nigerianas com DF, sendo 102 HbSS e 8 HbSC, foram avaliadas. Um total de 107 indivíduos, 39 do Brasil e 68 da Nigéria, fizeram parte do grupo controle. As micropartículas eritrocitárias foram quantificadas em plasma por citometria de fluxo, haptoglobina e hemopexina foram avaliadas por ELISA, e a hemoglobina plasmática e o heme foram mensurados por ensaio colorimétrico. PCR foi utilizada para confirmar o diagnóstico de DF. O perfil para alfa talassemia foi determinado por GAPPCR multiplex, os genótipos para UGT1A1 foram analisados por meio dos fragmentos gerados, e os haplótipos ßs e a deficiência de G6PD por meio de ensaio TaqMan. Os pacientes apresentaram níveis elevados de micropartículas, hemoglobina plasmática e heme livre na seguinte ordem: HbSS > HbSC > HbAA. Por outro lado, haptoglobina e hemopexina estiveram mais elevadas no grupo controle: HbSSAbstract: Several hypotheses have been proposed for the clinical diversity in SCD. These include the classification of a sub-hemolytic phenotype and hints on the potential contributions of genetic markers. However, these do not fully explain the phenotypic expressions observed in SCD patients. Hence, the need to search for more candidate markers of SCD. This is a study on phenotype correlation with some known genetic and newer candidate hemolysis markers among SCD patients. This study evaluated the relationship between red blood cell microparticles and other traditional markers of hemolysis in relation to clinical phenotypes of 138 consenting adult Brazilians with SCD made up of 78 HbSS (63-hydroxyurea treated &15-hydroxyurea naïve), 12 S-Beta0 thalassemia, 12 S-Beta+ thalassemia and 36 HbSC hydroxyurea naive patients in steady state. Also, 110 Nigerian children with SCD made up of 102 SS and 8 HbSC were studied. A total of 107 individuals, 39 from Brazil and 68 from Nigeria, served as controls. The plasma red blood cell microparticles were quantified by flow cytometer, haptoglobin and hemopexin by ELISA, plasma hemoglobin and heme were measured by colorimetric assays. PCR was used to confirm the diagnosis of SCD. Alpha thalassemia status was determined by multiplex GAP-PCR, UGT1A1 genotypes by Fragment analysis, ßs haplotype and G6PD by TaqMan SNP genotyping assays. The patients had significant higher levels of red blood microparticles, plasma hemoglobin, heme in the following order HbSS > HbSC > HbAA. On the contrary, both haptoglobin and hemopexin were higher in controls than the patients in the following reverse order HbSSDoutoradoPatologia ClinicaDoutor em Ciências Médicas2015/141693-0CNP
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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