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Effetti dell’umidità sul comportamtneo delle connessioni a piolo nelle strutture in legno.
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Manual therapy versus mesotherapy in treatment of chronic neck pain
No full textOur experience in the treatment of rotator cuff tears in
the ederly patients by a infiltrative and rehabilitative
treatment
C. Costantino, S. Olvirri, R. Ciraulo, E. Marangio.
Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine Postgraduated School ,
University of Parma, Italy
Introduction. Rotator cuff tears are cause of disability in elderly patients. The gold standard treatment is surgery. In selected cases several authors recommended the use of intraarticular infiltration of ialuronic acid in association by a rehabilitative program. The aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of rehabilitative and infiltrative treatment with hyaluronic acid in elderly patients with rotator cuff
tears, who do not present indications for a surgical intervention or were unwilling to do it. Materials and methods. We have selected 18 patients, (10 men and 8 women), in a range of 70 and 85 years (on average age 77.5 years) with a partial rupture of the rotator cuff showed by ultrasound and / or RMN. All patients showed symptoms
like sharp pain, loss of range of motion of the shoulder and loss of autonomy in daily life activities. Each patient has been evalued as far as pain by the Visual Analogic Scale (V.A.S.); and by Constant Murley and Shoulder Rating Questionnaire for functional limitation and independence in daily life activities. We performed a series of
three intra-articular infiltration of hyaluronic acid ( molecular weight between 800 and 1200 Kdalton ) followed by a focused.rehabilitation program. Results. The results achieved have been very encouraging
since the statistic evaluation showed a great success
(p<0,0005) and therefore an improvement of the parameters considered.
The protocol we have here shown has been appreciated by
all patients who have been satisfied. Conclusion. The infiltrativerehabilitative treatment practiced for these selected cases showed a certain efficacy. The action on pain it’s been possible due to the improvement of the range of motion and the functionality of the shoulder. It may be considered a valid choice instead of a surgical
treatment, that is at the moment the gold standard in classic cases of rupture of rotator cuff. However we believe we have to increase our survey . We are planning further follow-up (at 12th month) so as to compare this treatment with others already considered valid in literatu
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
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