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sj-docx-1-pch-10.1177_21501351221127895 - Supplemental material for How do Adults With Congenital Heart Disease Evaluate Their Clinical Care?
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-pch-10.1177_21501351221127895 for How do Adults With Congenital Heart Disease Evaluate Their Clinical Care? by Pasangi M. Wijayarathne, Alexandrea Ng and Samuel Menahem in World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery</p
sj-docx-1-pch-10.1177_21501351221149897 - Supplemental material for Adolescents and Adults With Congenital Heart Disease: Why Are They Lost to Follow-Up?
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-pch-10.1177_21501351221149897 for Adolescents and Adults With Congenital Heart Disease: Why Are They Lost to Follow-Up? by Tianwei Liu, Alun C. Jackson and Samuel Menahem in World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery</p
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
An assessment of the medical and psychosocial outcomes of adolescents with heart disease
No full textApproximately 1 percent of newborns are born with congenital heart disease (CHD). Improved medical outcomes following recent advances in medical technology have resulted in an increasing number of CHD patients who survive into adolescence and adulthood. Therefore, the quality of life of these patients is becoming increasingly important. Though there have been many studies of the quality of life in adults with CHD, studies of the adolescent population are scarce. CHD is the main heart disease in adolescents. This study aimed to assess the medical and psychosocial outcomes and health related quality of life (HRQoL) of adolescents with heart disease. The majority of the adolescents studies have CHD. The study aimed to evaluate the prevalence and contributory factors of depression and anxiety in the subjects studied, and to assess their knowledge and understanding of their individual cardiac abnormalities. It also evaluated the predictors of health-related quality of life. A cohort of adolescents with heart disease was recruited from an ambulatory setting at a tertiary centre and a private clinic. Patients completed self-report questionnaires, which were supplemented by clinical information provided by the attending cardiologists. The patient questionnaires contained the Paediatric Quality of Life Inventory 3.0 - Cardiac Module, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, the Life Orientation Test-Revised and the Sense of Coherence-13. In addition, it included a researcher-designed questionnaire to assess the adolescent’s knowledge of his or her cardiac condition. Ethical approval was obtained from the hospital and Monash University prior to commencement of the study. SPSS 17.0 was used for statistical analysis. In general, the medical outcomes and health-related quality of life in this cohort of adolescents with heart disease were good. However their knowledge and understanding of their individual cardiac abnormalities were poor according to their score percentages. Approximately one-third of patients were above the cut-off score for probable/possible anxiety, and about one-tenth in the range for probable/possible depression. Anxiety and depression were the main predictors of health-related quality of life which was correlated with other multiple factors including a sense of coherence, a feeling of optimism, social support, and knowledge and understanding of individual cardiac abnormalities. A sense of coherence, social support (friends subscale) and a feeling of optimism were significantly negatively correlated with depression and anxiety that could impact on health-related quality of life. An improved knowledge and understanding of their cardiac abnormalities occurred with increasing age. These findings raise important questions about the high frequency of depression and anxiety in an apparently well group of adolescents. The poor knowledge and understanding of their cardiac condition impacted negatively on their cardiac- related quality of life. It is important to improve the psychological functioning of the increasing number of adolescents with CHD. Specific intervention studies to address these issues should be planned to translate the findings into improved clinical outcomes
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
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