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Vaccine Hesitancy and Refusal
Full text linkver the past few years, an increasing number of European pediatricians, particularly primary care pediatricians, are facing the growing threat of vaccine hesitancy and refusal, a sort of a “cultural epidemic,” which seems to progressively affect the families of children under their care. In several communities, a growing number of individuals
are delaying or refusing available recommended and/or mandatory vaccinations for themselves and their children.
Furthermore, vaccination is increasingly perceived as unsafe and unnecessary by a rising number of parents, although it has been widely proven and recognized to be one of the greatest, safest, and most successful public healthmeasures ever adopted.The aim of the article is to describe vaccine hesitancy and refusal in an effort to further raise the awareness of pediatricians on this potential threat for their communities, and, in particular, for children under their care.
Definition and Effects of
Working with the Union of National European Pediatric Societies and Associations in "Building Bridges Across Europe":
No full textIn recent years, Europe and the entire world have experienced unprecedented economic and social changes that have affected health care services in many countries. The general perspectives that were foreseen at the beginning of the new millennium had to be remodeled to adapt to these new conditions.
Pediatric science and health care in Europe and in the rest of the world underwent similar processes. A different world requires new approaches to and strategies for pediatric science and practice. EUROPAEDIATRICS 2017 provides an opportunity to continue assessing and updating the status of pediatric science and health care in Europe, thus making its countries ready to meet new and often unexpected challenges
Epidemiologic changes caused by the preventive measures for the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: An additional challenge for pediatricians
No full textAfter the World Health Organization declared pandemic status and implemented restrictive measures to counter the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), there was a reduction in major pediatric diseases caused by common seasonal viruses. The typical increase in pediatric outpatient visits and workload in emergency departments and hospital wards that characterizes the winter season, usually dominated by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and influenza viruses, was not seen. Diseases such as bronchiolitis, asthma, and gastroenteritis, the protagonists of pediatric age, had drastically reduced or disappeared. This commentary,preparedby theSocial Pediatrics Working Group of the European Association of Pediatrics, Union of National Pediatric Societies and Associations, reports and briefly discusses data from the literature and the impact of preventive measures, established in various countries to contain the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, on the seasonal epidemiology of various pediatric infectious diseases. The purpose of the article is to raise awareness of this anthropogenic epidemiologic phenomenon and to emphasize the importance of being adequately trained to properly address this new challenge in their practice
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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