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Epidemiology of cytomegalovirus infection in pregnant women living in the Greater Romagna Area, Italy
No full textBackground. Aim of this study was to assess the incidence of Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection in pregnant women living in Romagna area, in North East Italy to implement the best management of this infection. Materials and Methods. In 2012, 23,727 serological tests for CMV IgG and IgM antibodies were performed in the Microbiology Unit, the Hub Laboratory of the Greater Romagna Area: 6931 were pregnant women. Results and Conclusions. 179 subjects were positive for CMV IgM antibodies: 82 were not pregnant; 97 were IgM positive during pregnancy or in the course of a pre-conception evaluation. The detected incidence of the CMV infection in pregnancy (calculated at 1.40%) actually validates the literature data. This study’s findings clearly underline the usefulness of testing the CMV specific immune response in the pre-conception period or as early as possible during pregnancy
The seroprevalence of anti-hepatitis E IgG antibodies in blood donors in the Greater Romagna area, Italy
No full textObjective: Data about Hepatitis E virus (HEV) prevalence are variable in Europe and also limited inItaly.WeaimedtodescribetheseroprevalenceofimmunoglobulinG(IgG)antibodiesagainst HEV infection among blood donors (BDs) in the Greater Romagna area, North-Eastern Italy.
Materials and Methods: All serum samples were at first screened for anti-HEV IgG antibodies by a commercial enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) (DIA.PRO Diagnostic Bioprobes, Sesto San Giovanni (MI), Italy), used in our diagnostic routine and so considered as the reference test. Then, all serum samples were re-tested for anti-HEV IgG antibodies by the other two commercial ELISA (Wantai, Biologic Pharmacy Enterprise, Beijing, China; Euroimmun, Lübeck, Germany). The seroprevalence rate was calculated based on the immunoblotting (IB) assay confirmation.
Results: A total of 500 BDs samples were tested by three commercial ELISA tests; positive and borderline results were confirmed by an IB assay. The overall anti-HEV IgG prevalence was 3.8% (CI: 2.303 – 5.871), 1.6% (CI: 0.693 – 3.128) and 2.8% (CI: 1.539 – 4.653) when samples were tested with DIA.PRO, Euroimmun and Wantai methods, respectively. The seroprevalence of IgG antibodies against HEV infection was found to be similar or lower than the previous reports in Italy. The results obtained by the different ELISA tests were similar.
Conclusion: The data obtained in this study underline the need for achieving a harmonised testing algorithm that is necessary in order to be able to compare data from different studies. We suggest that the identification of potential HEV human infection should be added to the standard laboratory work-up for viral hepatitis
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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