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Cognitive performance during gait is worsened by overground but enhanced by treadmill walking
No full textPURPOSE: Walking is an attention-demanding task that affects and is affected by cognitive performance. Since treadmill walking (TW) assists gait automaticity, we have hypothesized that TW affects cognitive performance to a smaller extent than overground walking (OW). METHODS: Thirty young adults were recruited. Each subject walked overground over a 20-meter straight hallway at three different speeds (slow, normal and fast). Each task was repeated 3 times under Single Task (OW-ST) and Dual Task (OW-DT) condition, in a randomized sequence. DT was a serial subtraction by 7 starting from a different number (> 100) in each trial. Afterwards, each subject walked on the treadmill at the same three speeds as during OW-ST, while performing the dual task (TW-DT). The correct cognitive response (CCR), calculated from the number of correct responses and mistakes, was compared between rest, OW-DT and TW-DT. Dual-task cost (DTC) was calculated for speed and for CCR. RESULTS: Backward counting diminished normal and fast OW-DT speed by about 15 %. Slow OW-DT speed was not significantly reduced. In turn, OW affected the cognitive performance. DTC for speed during OW-DT increased during normal and fast speed. CCR significantly decreased, more at slower OW-DT speed. Conversely, CCR was not worsened by TW-DT. CCR did not decline at slow TW-DT speed and improved significantly from slow and normal to fast speeds. DTC for CCR resulted smaller in TW-DT than OW-DT. CONCLUSIONS: Decline in the cognitive performance during OW-DT is more prominent at slow speed, in keeping with higher demand of attentional resources for this unusual locomotor behaviour. Conversely, motorized TW improves the cognitive performance likely because it reduces the attentional cost of walking. Gait training by TW might improve automaticity in patients with movement disorders
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation residency: an Italian nationwide epidemiologic survey
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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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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