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Use of m-Health Technology for Preventive Interventions to Tackle Cardiometabolic Conditions and Other Non-Communicable Diseases in Latin America- Challenges and Opportunities
Full text linkIn Latin America, cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality rates will increase by an estimated 145% from 1990 to 2020. Several challenges related to social strains, inadequate public health infrastructure, and underfinanced healthcare systems make cardiometabolic conditions and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) difficult to prevent and control. On the other hand, the region has high mobile phone coverage, making mobile health (mHealth) particularly attractive to complement and improve strategies toward prevention and control of these conditions in low- and middle-income countries. In this article, we describe the experiences of three Centers of Excellence for prevention and control of NCDs sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute with mHealth interventions to address cardiometabolic conditions and other NCDs in Argentina, Guatemala, and Peru. The nine studies described involved the design and implementation of complex interventions targeting providers, patients and the public. The rationale, design of the interventions, and evaluation of processes and outcomes of each of these studies are described, together with barriers and enabling factors associated with their implementation.Fil: Beratarrechea, Andrea Gabriela. Instituto de Efectividad Clínica y Sanitaria; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Diez Canseco, Francisco. Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia; PerúFil: Irazola, Vilma. Instituto de Efectividad Clínica y Sanitaria; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Miranda, Jaime. Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia; PerúFil: Ramirez Zea, Manuel. Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama; GuatemalaFil: Rubinstein, Adolfo Luis. Instituto de Efectividad Clínica y Sanitaria; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentin
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
Final Technical Report / Non-Communicable Disease Research Training Program. A Graduate and Postgraduate Initiative in Central America
No full textSee the dc.relation.uri fields for links to three related policy briefsThe Research Training Program (RTP) aimed to strengthen research capacity in Central America needed to generate policy relevant evidence for prevention and control of non-communicable diseases (NCD). It provided mentored research awards and training to recent healthcare graduate professionals and postgraduate students. Most research fellows and scholars (83%) were able to present the main results of their study in an international scientific meeting. However, only 13% were able to publish their work in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. The RTP also allowed mentors to experience enhancement of their own personal and professional knowledge while teaching and learning from each mentee
Benjamín Torún Rymer, 1939 – 2010
No full textBenjamín Torún, de nacionalidad guatemalteca, obtuvo el título de Médico y Cirujano de la Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala en 1965, siendo galardonado como el mejor estudiante de su promoción y con el premio Flores a la mejor tesis. En 1969 terminó una maestría en Fisiología en la Universidad de Harvard, gracias a una beca otorgada por el Fundación Kellogg y en 1972 un doctorado en Bioquímica y Metabolismo Nutricional en el Instituto Tecnológico de Massachussets, para lo cual también obtuvo dos becas, una otorgada por la Universidad de las Naciones Unidas (UNU) y otra por la Agencia de los Estados Unidos para el Desarrollo Internacional (USAID). Sus compañeros lo apodaron “Benny questions” (Benny preguntas), por ser quien, al final de la clase, nunca se quedaba sin hacer más de alguna pregunta. Ese mismo año regresó al INCAP, en donde laboró hasta su retiro obligatorio en 2001, ocupando múltiples posiciones, entre las que destacan Director del Centro Clínico de Investigación, Jefe de la División de Biomédica, Jefe de la División de Nutrición y Salud y Coordinador de los programas de fisiología, metabolismo y nutrición clínica y nutrición y enfermedades crónicas. Autor y co-autor de 10 libros y monografías y de más de 100 artículos en revistas científicas y capítulos de libros. Fue miembro de múltiples grupos de expertos que produjeron varios reportes y monografías publicadas por OMS, FAO, OPS, UNU, IDECG, INACG y otras organizaciones internacionales. A su vez, fue miembro de varios consejos editoriales de revistas científicas, incluyendo Archivos Latinoamericanos de Nutrición.Su muerte en agosto de 2010 fue una pérdida no sólo para su esposa Betty, sus tres hijos, sus seis nietos y tantísimos amigos, sino para toda América Latina y el mundo. Hasta pronto querido maestro, amigo, colega y miembro de la familia INCAPense
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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