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Anxiety and female sexual functioning: an empirical study
No full textPrevious research regarding anxiety and female sexual functioning has yielded conflicting conclusions. This study examined the effect of state/trait anxiety and anxiety sensitivity on sexual responding and the propensity toward sexual inhibition/excitation in women without an anxiety disorder (n = 100, M age = 28.8 years) compared with women with an anxiety disorder (panic disorder or generalized anxiety disorder, n = 30, M age = 30.2 years). Participants completed self-report measures of state and trait anxiety, anxiety sensitivity, sexual functioning, and sexual inhibition/excitation. Women with an anxiety disorder reported worse sexual functioning compared with those without an anxiety disorder (except for desire, lubrication, and pain) and a greater propensity toward sexual inhibition, because of the threat of performance failure and its consequences. Dispositional anxiety and related worries significantly predicted various types of sexual dysfunctions. Findings suggested the importance of considering the relation between anxiety and sexual functioning to design optimal prevention and therapeutic interventions for women with anxiety disorders
NEGATIVE PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY NELL’ OPEN ABDOMEN PER CAUSE NON-SETTICHE: UNO STUDIO RETROSPETTIVO SU 75 PAZIENTI
No full textObiettivi: L’open abdomen (OA) rappresenta una valida opzione
chirurgica nel trattamento di un ampio spettro di condizioni settiche
e non settiche. In letteratura, emerge che il tasso di successo della
procedura di Temporary Abdominal Closure (TAC) nei pazienti non
settici, dipende dal tipo di metodica adottata. Lo scopo di questo
studio è valutare se i sistemi di chiusura della ferita a pressione
negativa (NPWT) inuenzano l’outcome dei pazienti trattati con OA
per cause non settiche.
Materiali e metodi: Abbiamo analizzato in maniera retrospettiva
75 pazienti trattati con OA per cause non settiche (Abdominal
Compartment Syndrome, trauma ed ischemia intestinale) tra il
2001 e il 2015. In 40 pazienti (53%) la TAC è stata eseguita con
sistema NPWT (Gruppo A); in 35 (47%) con sistemi non a pressione
negativa (Gruppo B). Abbiamo analizzato e comparato i seguenti
parametri: durata media della TAC, tasso di chiusura de!nitiva
della laparostomia e mortalità. Il t-test di Student e il test corretto
di Fisher sono stati utilizzati per l’analisi statistica. Il valore di p <
0.05 è stato considerato signi!cativo.
Risultati: In totale, la durata media della TAC è di 2,46 giorni, il
tasso di chiusura de!nitivo 75% e la mortalità pari al 44%. Tra il
gruppo A e il Gruppo B, la durata media dell’OA è risultata 2.42 vs
4.82 giorni (p = 0,09), il tasso di chiusura de!nitivo 85% vs 65% (p
= 0.06) e la mortalità 40% vs 48.6% (p=0.49).
Conclusioni: Questo studio, seppur limitato dal confronto tra
differenti “periodi storici”, dimostra la superiorità, anche se non
signi!cativa, della TAC NPWT rispetto a quella non-NPWT in
termini di durata media dell’OA, del tasso di chiusura de!nitivo e
della mortalità nei pazienti sottoposti a OA per cause non settiche.
È verosimile che un ampliamento del campione analizzato possa
fornire una conferma signi!cativa ai dati riportati
THE ROLE OF THE EARLY GASTROGRAFIN TEST IN A DECISION-MAKING ALGORITHM FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS WITH ADHESIVE SMALL BOWEL OBSTRUCTION (ASBO)
No full textIntroduction: The Gastrografin Test (GT) is a very useful tool for the management of ASBO without signs of peritonitis which facilitates the recognition of patients who will benefit from a surgical operation 1,2. The aim of this study is to analyze the results of GT protocol use and to identify failure predictive factors. Material and methods: During 2015-2016, 90 patients with overall 92 ASBO episodes were managed in our Unit using a decision-making algorithm. In 80 cases (87%), a conservative treatment with GT was adopted. We prospectively analyze patients’demographic data and diagnostic CT work-up (wall thickening [ 5 mm, mean small bowel maximum caliber, fluid collection and parietal pneumatosis). Results: 31 ASBO episodes (39%) were successfully managed with a conservative treatment with Gastrographin (group 1, G1). The remaining 49 episodes (61%) required a surgical exploration (group 2, G2). The incidence of intestinal wall thickening [ 5 mm was significantly higher in G1 (49% vs 19,4%, p = 0,015). The same was identified for the mean small bowel maximum caliber (4,35 cm vs 3,7 cm, p = 0,002). The latter parameter (p = 0,011; OR 2,6; IC 95%) and the wall thickening (p = 0,026; OR: 3,88; IC 95%) can be considered as predictive factors of GT failure Conclusion: GT is a safe and effective tool in the management of ASBO not requiring emergency surgery. It may be helpful in establishing whether or not to perform surgery. The mean small bowel maximum caliber and the intestinal wall thickening can be considered as predictive factors for GT failure. References: 1. Di Saverio S et al. Bologna guidelines for diagnosis and management of adhesive small bowel obstruction (ASBO): 2013 update of the evidence-based guidelines from the world society of emergency surgery ASBO working group. World J Emerg Surg. 2013; 8 (1): 42-51. 2. Azagury D et al. Small bowel obstruction: a practical step-by-step evidence-based approach to evaluation, decision making and management J Trauma Acute Care Surg 2015; 79 (4): 661-668.
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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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