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[Urothelial neoplasia as a late complication of transitional-cell carcinoma of the bladder].
No full textWe evaluated the long term incidence of lower urinary tract neoplasms in patients with primary transitional bladder carcinoma. 8 patients had lower urinary tract neoplasm after a median elapse of time of 44 months (range 28 to 70). In 5 patients wa present vesicoureteral reflux. All the patients were undergone trial of BCG after the first recurrence of bladder carcinoma. We suppose that the vesicoureteral reflux may be the possible cause of ureteral neoplasm onset. Because of patients with primary bladder tumors are at the risk for lower urinary tract neoplasm, we suggest the need regular and continuous monitoring in case of frequent recurrence of transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder
[Does the neurologic assessment have a decisive role in the early diagnosis of urinary disorders of uncertain etiology? A case of spinal chordoma].
No full textThe Authors report a rare case of detrusor areflexia due to a sacral column chordoma characterized as initial symptomatology, by dysuria and recurrent urinary tract infections. The patient was treated for a long time in a symptomatic way by her physicians. The Authors while discussing the case, underline the importance of an accurate differential diagnostical framing in patients with voiding and/or anorectal dysfunctions of uncertain nature. This framing must exclude those voiding pathologies of neurological origin which are frequently evinced merely by an aspecific voiding symptomatology of dysuric or irritative nature
Intracorporeal lithotripsy of large calcium-oxalate monohydrate bladder stones with the Lithospec device
No full textPLASMID ANALYSIS IN PPNG STRAINS ISOLATED IN ITALY
No full textItalian reports of PPNG strains are rare. In this paper we report the plasmidial characteristics of two strains: one harbouring 3.2 and 2.6 Mdal plasmids and the other 24.5, 4.5 and 2.6 Mdal plasmids. Restriction analysis was carried out on plasmids transferred to E. coli by transformation for Africa and conjugation for Asia plasmid
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
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