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    Il Dot Immunobinding Assy (DIB) nella ricerca dell'antigene capsulare di Cryptococcus neoformans: confronto con il latex test

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    A new technique, the Dot Immunobinding Assay (DIB) has been evaluated for the detection of Cryptococcus neoformans antigen in serum and cerebrospinal fluid samples collected from patients with AIDS. Patients with and without clinical and microbiological data of cryptococcal infection were included in this study. DIB results were compared with those obtained with the latex test (LA). DIB has shown to be more sensitive than LA test, simple to perform and economic

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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
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