79 research outputs found
Correction to: Short- and long-term outcomes in infective endocarditis patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis
No full textCorrection Unfortunately, after publication of this article [1], it was noticed that the name of the fifth author was incorrectly displayed as Akshaya Srikanth Bahagavathula. The correct name is Akshaya Srikanth Bhagavathula and can be seen in the corrected author list above. The original article has also been updated to correct this error
Distribution of partial credit given to different authors for an imaginary publication with 1–10 authors with one first author and one corresponding author<sup>#</sup>.
No full text<p>: The first and corresponding author is the same.</p><p>#: The last author has been assumed to be the corresponding author.</p
The partial credit (a<sub>0</sub>) given to the primary author for articles with 1–100 imaginary authors.
No full text<p>The partial credit (a<sub>0</sub>) given to the primary author for articles with 1–100 imaginary authors.</p
Correlation of <i>Ab-</i>, h- and w-indices with the percentage of credit earned as primary author.
No full text<p>The correlation of <i>Ab-</i>, h- and w-indices to the percentage of credit earned as the primary author of ten individuals randomly chosen from top-20 highly cited authors in the field of Molecular Biology & Genetics of the year 2010 (data source: Thomson Reuters Essential Science IndicatorsSM).</p
A quantitative investigation of the knowledge and attitudes to obesity among LJMU students
No full textBackground: Obesity is regarded as an important public health issue that affects an increasing number of people worldwide due to its prevalence, high cost, and negative health consequences. Global data reveals that obesity affects more than one billion people globally, including 650 million adults. University students are more prone to stress, unhealthy eating, and reduced physical activity which contributes to obesity. The aim of the study was to investigate the knowledge and attitudes to obesity among LJMU students.
Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study of LJMU Faculty of Health students was carried out. An online self-administered and validated questionnaire was used to evaluate the knowledge and attitude of the students. The survey was completed by a total of 27 participants.
Results: The main findings of this investigation showed that majority of the participants had better knowledge about the definition of obesity (81.5%), recommended daily calorie intake for men and women (63.0%), and had less knowledge on the percentage of world’s obese population (85.1%). According to the study, there is a statistically significant difference between students\u27 knowledge of the causes of obesity, their attitudes towards obesity, and both their level of study and their international status. The study also found a statistically significant correlation between students\u27 knowledge of the health consequences of obsesity and their international status. Additionally, the research found that students of both genders were equally knowledgeable on the causes and consequences of obesity and showed no variations in their attitude towards obesity.
Conclusion: Most of the international students and postgraduate students had poor knowledge about the causes and health consequences of obesity and also showed significant variations on their attitudes towards obesity. Therefore, there is a need for enhanced health education programmes among these students focusing on obesity and other associated issues both inside and outside of university campuses
An absolute index (Ab-index) to measure a researcher's useful contributions and productivity.
No full textBibliographic analysis has been a very powerful tool in evaluating the effective contributions of a researcher and determining his/her future research potential. The lack of an absolute quantification of the author's scientific contributions by the existing measurement system hampers the decision-making process. In this paper, a new metric system, Absolute index (Ab-index), has been proposed that allows a more objective comparison of the contributions of a researcher. The Ab-index takes into account the impact of research findings while keeping in mind the physical and intellectual contributions of the author(s) in accomplishing the task. The Ab-index and h-index were calculated for 10 highly cited geneticists and molecular biologist and 10 young researchers of biological sciences and compared for their relationship to the researchers input as a primary author. This is the first report of a measuring method clarifying the contributions of the first author, corresponding author, and other co-authors and the sharing of credit in a logical ratio. A java application has been developed for the easy calculation of the Ab-index. It can be used as a yardstick for comparing the credibility of different scientists competing for the same resources while the Productivity index (Pr-index), which is the rate of change in the Ab-index per year, can be used for comparing scientists of different age groups. The Ab-index has clear advantage over other popular metric systems in comparing scientific credibility of young scientists. The sum of the Ab-indices earned by individual researchers of an institute per year can be referred to as Pr-index of the institute
Decision-making for Schiphol Airport: An approach towards developing a framework for prioritisation of projects for the existing asset portfolio
No full textTransportation domain forms a significant part of the infrastructure sector in The Netherlands. After the second world war in the 1960s and 1970s, substantial development occurred in transportation infrastructure with the construction of new assets like highways, railways, roadways and airports. As a result of this, the forthcoming decades are about maintaining and replacing these assets.In a dynamic environment like an airport, it becomes necessary to have a prioritisation(ranking) within these maintenance and replacement projects. A prioritisation helps the decision-makers plan project activities in a better way, curtail risks related to disruption of operations, use their financial resources wisely and have a preference on what 'maintenance and replacement' activities should be undertaken. Thus to obtain this prioritisation in 'maintenance and replacement' project initiatives, the need for forming a decision-making process is triggered. The framework is thus developed comprised of a data-driven rational model and intuitive models that take conflicts within decision-makers into consideration. The framework is developed in three levels of - 1. Project identification and development, 2. Project comparison and review and 3. Project selection and approval in this research. The framework can be adopted to obtain a prioritisation in project initiatives, having flexibility to rely just on the data driven results or to adopt some intuitive decision making models.Civil Engineering | Construction Management and Engineerin
Partial credits earned by the different authors of three important research articles of last decade.
No full text<p>(The articles with 55 and 135 authors have only one combined first and corresponding author but the article with 100 authors has three first co-authors and three corresponding authors who share equal credit).</p
Decoding of Cluster Array Errors in Row-Cyclic Array Codes
No full text[[abstract]]Row-cyclic array codes equipped with m-metric [13] suitable for parallel
channel communication systems have been introduced by the first
author in [10] and the notion of cluster/burst array errors were introduced
by the first author in [6]. In this paper, we study cluster array
errors detection and correction in row-cyclic array codes
An absolute index (Ab-index) to measure a researcher's useful useful contributions and productivity
No full textBibliographic analysis has been a very powerful tool in evaluating the effective contributions of a researcher and determining his/her future research potential. The lack of an absolute quantification of the author’s scientific contributions by the existing measurement system hampers the decision-making process. In this paper, a new metric system, Absolute index (Ab-index), has been proposed that allows a more objective comparison of the contributions of a researcher. The Ab-index takes into account the impact of research findings while keeping in mind the physical and intellectual contributions of the author(s) in accomplishing the task. The Ab-index and h-index were calculated for 10 highly cited geneticists and molecular biologist and 10 young researchers of biological sciences and compared for their relationship to the researchers input as a primary author. This is the first report of a measuring method clarifying the contributions of the first author, corresponding author, and other co-authors and the sharing of credit in a logical ratio. A java application has been developed for the easy calculation of the Ab-index. It can be used as a yardstick for comparing the credibility of different scientists competing for the same resources while the Productivity index (Pr-index), which is the rate of change in the Ab-index per year, can be used for comparing scientists of different age groups. The Ab-index has clear advantage over other popular metric systems in comparing scientific credibility of young scientists. The sum of the Ab-indices earned by individual researchers of an institute per year can be referred to as Pr-index of the institute
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