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Pressão intra-ocular em pré-termos de muito baixo peso de nascimento e sua relação com a idade pós-concepção
Get PDFObjetivo: medir a pressão intra-ocular (PIO) em pré-termos de muito baixo peso (PMBP) e correlacionar com a idade pós-concepção (IPC). Métodos: Estudo longitudinal incluindo 50 pré-termos. Local: Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre. Período: entre novembro de 2008 e junho de 2010. Pacientes: PMBP definido como idade nascimento ≤ 1.500 g e idade gestacional ≤ 32 semanas. Intervenção: medidas semanais da PIO. Principais desfechos: variação da PIO de acordo com a idade pós-concepção (IPC definida como a idade gestacional ao nascimento mais a idade no momento do exame) nas semanas seguintes ao nascimento pré-termo. Análise estatística: modelos de efeitos mistos foram utilizados para determinar a variação da PIO em relação a IPC. Foram calculados as médias e os percentis 10 e 90 (P10 e P90) para os valores da PIO. Resultados: Cinqüenta PMBP com idade gestacional média de 29,7 ± 1,6 semanas e peso de nascimento de 1.127,7 ± 222,7 gramas foram avaliados. Não houve diferença significativa entre a PIO do olho direito e do olho esquerdo (p=0.177). A média da PIO em toda a coorte, considerando ambos os olhos, foi de 14,9 ± 4,5 mmHg, sendo que 13,5% das medidas isoladas da PIO foram superiores a 20 mmHg. A PIO reduziu em média 0,29 mmHg para cada aumento de uma semana da IPC (p=0.047 IC95%: -0,58 a -0,0035). A PIO média (P10-P90) reduziu de 16,3 mmHg (10,52-22,16) com 26,3 semanas de IPC para 13,1 mmHg (7,28-18,92) com 37,6 semanas de IPC. Conclusões: A PIO média em PMBP foi 14,9 ± 4,5 mmHg e apresentou correlação negativa em relação a idade pós-concepção.Purpose: To measure intraocular pressure (IOP) in very low birth weight preterm infants and correlate it with the postconceptional age (PCA). Methods: Longitudinal study including 50 premature infants. Setting: Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Brazil. Patients: Very low birth weight premature infants (defined as birth weight ≤1,500 g and gestational age ≤32 weeks). Intervention: Weekly measurements of the IOP. Main outcomes: The variation of IOP according to the postconceptional age (PCA defined as the gestational age at birth plus the age in weeks at the time of examination) in the weeks following preterm birth. Statistics: Mixed-effects models were used for the statistical analysis to determine IOP variation according to PCA. Means, 10th and 90th percentiles were calculated for IOP values. Results: Fifty preterm infants with a mean gestational age of 29.7 ± 1.6 weeks and mean birth weight of 1,127.7 ± 222.7 grams were evaluated. Mean IOP in the whole cohort considering both eyes was 14.9 ± 4.5 mmHg, and 13.5% of the IOP measurement values were greater than 20 mmHg. The analysis revealed a mean IOP reduction of 0.29 mmHg for each increase of PCA (p=0.047; 95% CI, -0.58 to -0.0035). Mean IOP (P10- P90) decreased from 16.3 mmHg (10.52-22.16) at 26.3 weeks PCA to 13.1 mmHg (7.28- 18.92) at 37.6 weeks PCA. Conclusions: Mean IOP in very low birth weight preterm infants was 14.9 ± 4.5 mmHg and was negatively correlated with PCA
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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