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Sexual Function in Patients with Stoma and its Consideration Among Their Caregivers: A Cross-Sectional Study
No full textSexual function is a paramount issue in patients with stoma, but it is a problem often underestimated by physicians and caregivers. This study aimed to investigate the difference between patient expectations and the consideration of patients sexual function by caregivers. This multicentric study consisted of two surveys addressed to patients with stoma and to stomatherapists, between March 1st and May 31st 2012. The surveys were distributed among all Italian Regions. A total of 457 valid surveys from patients with stoma were included. The 40% of patients had a definitive colostomy. The 85% of cases referred a good health status and 71% was autonomous in the ostomy management. Sexual activity was defined "important" in 80% and 68% patients before and after the operation, respectively. The presence of the ostomy influenced sexual activity in 22.5% patients. This study demonstrated the major issues of patients with stoma about sexual function and the difficulty and embarrassment of caregivers in talking about it with their patients
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
Validation of a stoma specific quality of life questionnaire in a sample of patients with colostomy or ileostomy.
Full text linkAIM: The aim of this study was to determine how socio-demographic and clinical variables affect QoL and to assess the validity of this 20-item scale in a sample of Italian subjects with colostomy, ileostomy and multiple stomata.
METHOD:A cross-sectional multicentre survey was carried out in Italy between 2009 and 2010 in 73 Stoma Centres coordinated by the University of Padova. Patients aged 18 years old and above with a history of non-temporary stoma were included in the study. The Stoma Care QoL scale was measured and validated using a Rasch model. Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics were considered in the analyses.
RESULTS: Two hundred and fifty one patients were recruited for the study; mean age was 62, 58% were males, 72% had colostomy and 25% ileostomy; approximately 70% of patients had intestinal cancer requiring a stoma, 13% a complication, and 10% an inflammatory disease. No significant differences were observed throughout strata in the Stoma QoL index, except for geographical area, where subjects from South Italy showed a significantly lower index than subjects living in other parts of Italy (p<0.01). Colostomy and ileostomy patients reported very similar QoL. Cronbach's alpha for the Stoma QoL was 0.90 (95% CI 0.88-0.92). Rasch analysis supported the viability of the Stoma QoL questionnaire and showed acceptable goodness-of-fit. Three under-fitted items were observed.
CONCLUSIONS: The study confirms the validity of the 20-item Stoma Care QoL questionnaire as a research tool for stoma patients but the number of items could be reduced. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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