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Prevalence of aging population in the middle east and its implications on cancer incidence and care
No full textThe Middle Eastern population is aging rapidly, and as aging is the main risk factor for cancer, the incidence and prevalence of that disease are increasing among all the populations in the region. These developments represent huge challenges to national and community-based health services. At the current state of affairs, most Middle Eastern countries require the cooperation of international agencies in order to cope with such new challenges to their health systems. The focus and emphasis in facing these changing circumstances lie in the education and training of professionals, mainly physicians and nurses, at the primary, secondary and tertiary levels of health services. It is imperative that these training initiatives include clinical practice, with priority given to the creation of multidisciplinary teams both at the cancer centers and for home-based services. © The Author 2013. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society for Medical Oncology. All rights reserved.Abu-Saad Huijer Huda, 2007, J Med Liban, V55, P121; Alexeyev MF, 2009, FEBS J, V276, P5768, DOI 10.1111-j.1742-4658.2009.07269.x; [Anonymous], 2010, CHRON DIS AG E MED R; [Anonymous], 2010, EUR POP REP; [Anonymous], 2013, ADDR BAS POP DAT; Audisio RA, 2008, CRIT REV ONCOL HEMAT, V65, P156, DOI 10.1016-j.critrevonc.2007.11.001; Baker DJ, 2011, NATURE, V479, P232, DOI 10.1038-nature10600; Balistreri CR, 2012, IMMUN AGEING, V9, DOI 10.1186-1742-4933-9-8; Barzilai N, 2012, DIABETES, V61, P1315, DOI 10.2337-db11-1300; Boonekamp JJ, 2013, AGING CELL, V12, P330, DOI 10.1111-acel.12050; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2012, NAT VIT STAT SYST; Cohen HJ, 2003, AM J MED, V114, P180, DOI 10.1016-S0002-9343(02)01484-5; Cohen HJ, 2002, NEW ENGL J MED, V346, P905, DOI 10.1056-NEJMsa010285; Dale W, 2012, JNCI-J NATL CANCER I, V104, P581, DOI 10.1093-jnci-djs145; Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, 2012, WORLD POP PROSP 2006; Eikelenboom P, 2012, ALZHEIMERS RES THER, V4, DOI 10.1186-alzrt118; Extermann M, 2012, CANCER-AM CANCER SOC, V118, P3377, DOI 10.1002-cncr.26646; Ferlay J., 2010, IARC CANCERBASE; Ferrucci L, 2005, BLOOD, V105, P2294, DOI 10.1182-blood-2004-07-2599; Hacettepe Universitesi, 2008, TURK NUF SAGL AR 200; Hajjar RR, 2012, LEBAN MED J, V60, P188; Huffman KM, 2011, J GERONTOL A-BIOL, V66, P1369, DOI 10.1093-gerona-glr121; Hurria A, 2012, J NATL COMPR CANC NE, V10, P162; Hurria A, 2011, J CLIN ONCOL, V29, P3457, DOI 10.1200-JCO.2011.34.7625; IOM (Institute of Medicine), 2008, RET AG AM BUILD HLTH; Jilha A, 2007, J GERONTOL A-BIOL, V62, P1016; Kanapuru B, 2009, AM J MED, V122, P605, DOI 10.1016-j.amjmed.2009.01.030; Kane RL, 2012, J AM GERIATR SOC, V60, P896, DOI 10.1111-j.1532-5415.2012.03942.x; Khatib O, 2004, East Mediterr Health J, V10, P778; Lakkis NA, 2010, CANCER EPIDEMIOL, V34, P221, DOI 10.1016-j.canep.2010.02.013; Liu Y, 2009, AGING CELL, V8, P439, DOI 10.1111-j.1474-9726.2009.00489.x; Maggio M, 2012, J NUTR HEALTH AGING, V16, P40; Ministry of Public Health National Cancer Registry (NCR), CANC LEB 2004 UPD 20; Mitnitski Arnold B, 2004, J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci, V59, pM627; Muezzinler A, 2013, AGEING RES REV, V12, P509, DOI 10.1016-j.arr.2013.01.003; Muller-Sieburg CE, 2012, BLOOD, V119, P3900, DOI 10.1182-blood-2011-12-376749; Naylor BM, 2013, CIN PHARM THER, V93, P105; Pan Arab Project for Family Health (PAPFAM), 2008, LEAG AR STAT AN SURV; Pang WW, 2011, P NATL ACAD SCI USA, V108, P20012, DOI 10.1073-pnas.1116110108; Puts MTE, 2012, J NATL CANCER I, V104, P1133, DOI 10.1093-jnci-djs285; Silbermann M, 2010, ASIAN PAC J CANCER P, V11, P1; Silbermann M, 2010, ENDEAVORS IMPROVE PA, P217; Silbermann M, 2012, ANN ONCOL, V23, P15, DOI 10.1093-annonc-mds084; Sinclair AJ, 2012, PATHYS PRINCIPLES PR; State Planning Organization, 2007, SIT ELD PEOPL TURK N; Turkish Cancer Statistics Database, 2009, TURK CANC STAT DAT; Turkish Ministry of Health RSHCP School of Public Health National Burden of Disease and Cost-Effectiveness Study, 2005, NAT BURD DIS COST EF; Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT), 2013, POP DAT; United Nations (UN), 2011, WORLD POP PROSP 2010; Wang E., 2009, CURR GENOMICS, V10, P1439; Weiskopf D, 2009, TRANSPL INT, V22, P1041, DOI 10.1111-j.1432-2277.2009.00927.x; Yilmaz H.H., 2010, JPN J CLIN ONCOL, V41, P10; Yount K. M., 2009, INT HDB POPULATION A, P277, DOI 10.1007-978-1-4020-8356-3_13; Yourman LC, 2012, JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC, V307, P182, DOI 10.1001-jama.2011.1966; Zhang PP, 2013, CANCER EPIDEMIOL, V37, P207, DOI 10.1016-j.canep.2012.12.00911
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
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