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Aligning the Good Practice MASK With the Objectives of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing
No full textThe reference sites of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP on AHA) were renewed in 2019. The DG Sante good practice Mobile Airways Sentinel networK was reviewed to meet the objectives of the EIP on AHA. It included 1) Management of care process, 2) Blueprint of digital transformation, 3) EIP on AHA, innovation to market, 4) Community for monitoring and assessment framework, 5) Political, organizational, technological and financial readiness, 6) Contributing to European co-operation and transferability, 7) Delivering evidence of impact against the triple win approach, 8) Contribution to the European Digital Transformation of Health and Care and 9) scale of demonstration and deployment of innovation
Anti-inflammatory effects of glucocorticoids and cyclosporin A on human basophils.
No full textPro-inflammatory and vasoactive mediators released from human basophils and mast cells play a role in several inflammatory and immune disorders. It was recently demonstrated that cyclosporin A (CsA) exerts anti-inflammatory effects by inhibiting the release of preformed and de novo synthesized mediators from human basophils. This study compared the effects of pharmacological concentrations of deflazacort (DFZ) and prednisolone (PRED) on the anti-IgE-mediated release of preformed (histamine) and de novo synthesized (leukotriene C4: [LTC4]) mediators from basophils. Basophils were cultured for 18 hours in the presence of pharmacological concentrations of DFZ (10(-8) to 3 x 10(-6) M). DFZ inhibited the anti-IgE-mediated release of histamine and LTC4 from basophils in a concentration-dependent manner (6-40%), and had a similar efficacy and potency to PRED. The effect of DFZ (10(-8) to 10(-7) M) in combination with CsA on the immunological release of histamine and LTC4 from basophils was also evaluated. An 18-hour incubation of basophils with DFZ (10(-8) M) followed by a short (15-minute) incubation with CsA (30 ng/ml) resulted in an additive inhibition of the release of histamine and LTC4. The additive anti-inflammatory effect of these drugs makes them interesting candidates for future controlled clinical trials in inflammatory diseases in which basophil-derived mediators play a relevant role
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
Heterogeneity of the effects of radiocontrast media on mediator release from human mast cells and basophils
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