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Health 2050: Bioinformatics for Rapid Self-Repair; A Design Analysis for Future Quantified Self
Full text linkAbout 75% of our healthcare costs go to four domains (cardio-, onco-, neuro- and metabolic) of diseases which are largely preventable or even reversible. Instead, they are ‘managed’ and made chronic, not cured. This is very costly and unsustainable for the future. Research is showing new opportunities for enhancing our body’s self-repair in a matter of hours or days. We want to empower personal cure with rapid feedback for self-management. What could be an interventionand bio-feedback portfolio to promote health self-repair within hours or days? Using a cross-case design analysis, we found large differences across the four health domains regarding: intervention aims, (self-)measurement options, focus on symptoms vs causes, plus degree of attention for health selfmanagement. Given recent developments in rapid cure, we advise advanced daily bioinformatics feedback, instead of current quarterly cycles, to improve our self-repair effectiveness
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
Service Experience Design for Healthy Living Support: Comparing an In-House with an eHealth Solution
Full text linkExtensive lifestyle interventions towards healthy living can help prevent, stabilize or even reverse some of the most common diseases facing our aging population (cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, obesity, some cancers and even dementia). One promising application can be found in ‘secondary prevention’, which starts from the moment of diagnosis and is aimed at prevention or reversal of disease progression. Several studies have shown that patients who make the largest lifestyle progress gain most (long term) health benefits. An important challenge is to motivate patients to a high degree of compliance with the lifestyle guidelines. In this paper we use principles from Service Experience Design and motivation theories for designing and evaluating (e)Health lifestyle interventions. A two-tier design approach is most sensible: First use generic motivational factors (like cognition/health insights, asking explicit commitments or generating fast results). Next use service experience factors to optimize details. The eHealth solution generates quite different experience benefits compared with the inhouse solution. On the one hand this indicates that they may be used to serve different patient segments. On the other hand, our analysis suggests ways in which in-house and eHealth elements may be combined. We argue, that the level of trust a patient gains in prevention or therapy programs can be increased substantially by this combination. Some innovative examples for ICT-based eHealth approaches are mentioned for illustration
Exploring e/mHealth Potential for Health Improvement: A Design Analysis for Future e/mHealth Impact
Full text linkOur aging population presents a huge challenge especially to our Western (public) health care systems and costs. Recent developments in the area of e/mHealth solutions hold some promise, especially if they are used in lifestyle interventions for several of the main Western diseases. We raise the question how e/mHealth solutions can help improve health by supporting lifestyle interventions? By using a design analysis approach and based on medical literature on health interventions, we raise a number of questions, which span the problem space: Which types of lifestyle interventions are more or less effective in generating health improvements? Which contents and formats of lifestyle interventions hold promise? What could e/mHealth care solutions contribute? System Quality and Information Quality issues are illustrated by using cases. Finally, in the discussion we briefly address the integration with traditional health care provisioning. Regarding the support of health (self-)management, we argue that specific e/mHealth care approaches could offer solutions for current system quality and information quality challenges. These solutions can in turn offer opportunities for care providers to improve the success of their patient recovery programs, and for patients to improve their health significantly. We provide a list of examples for such support provided by e/mHealth care approaches, e.g. integration with the increasing range of health applications in everyday life (on iPhone, Wii, Google, Nike+ and others). A significant number of patients want to actively contribute to improve their health and fight their disease, if they see that it makes a difference. A growing range of e- and m-Health applications is helping them do so
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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