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Pathological monolateral Doppler velocimetry of the uterin artery and materno fetal outcome
Caesarean surgery or vaginal delivery in a pregnant woman with homozygous FXI deficiency and FXI level <1%? This is the question!
Lo screening della traslucenza nucale fetale: i risultati e la corretta comunicazione del test
Genetic thrombophilias and uterine artery Doppler velocimetry and preeclampsia
The aim of this study was to evaluate the correlation between genetic thrombophilic mutations, uterine artery Doppler at 24 weeks of gestation and preeclampsia.In a case control study we performed the genetic analysis for Leiden mutation of factor V gene (FV), G20210A mutation of the prothrombin gene (PT) and C677T polymorphism of the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) gene in 103 women that had already attended routine ultrasonography scanner at 20 weeks at our Department.The frequency of heterozygous carriers of the factor V Leiden was 17.4% in the women with preeclampsia and abnormal artery Doppler compared with 3.12% in the patients with normal pregnancies. This difference was statistically significant (P<0.05). The frequency of mutation G20210A of prothrombin gene was 1.5 vs. 4.3% between women with normal pregnancies and with preeclampsia. This difference is not statistically significant. The frequency of homozygous patients for the C677T mutation of MTHFR gene among the patients with preeclampsia was 21.7% and in the control group was 10.3%, but this difference is not statistically significant. No thrombophilic gene variants were found in women with preeclampsia and normal uterine artery Doppler.We demonstrated the important association between factor V Leiden mutation, abnormal uterine Doppler at 24 weeks and preeclampsia in our population
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
The 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
“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
We 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
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