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Effect of Mamsyadi Kwatha along With Structured Satvavajaya Module in the Management of Post Stroke Mood and Emotional Disturbances - Single Group Pre-Test Post-Test Design
Get PDFStroke is considered as one of the major causes of physical disability which has a serious impact on mental health and affecting the quality of life (QoL) of an individual. This study is intended to explore the effect of Mamsyadi kwatha along with structured module for addressing the psychological problems of stroke survivors and to measure its effects on improving the issues like depression, anxiety, anger proneness, fatigue, emotional incontinence and quality of life in them. Mamsyadi kwatha with proven efficacy in anxiety and depression was selected with the structured Satvavajaya module and administered in 21 participants. The participants were in the age group of 30-75 without any history of psychiatric illness and recent stressful life events or trauma and those who can communicate properly were recruited for the study. Mamsyad kwatha and Satvavajaya module were administered for initial 14 days. Assessments were done on 0th day/ 7th day/ 15th. Main outcome measures included emotional problems like depression and anxiety, fatigue, emotional incontinence, anger proneness and stroke related QoL. After the treatment, significant improvements were noted in depression (p<0.001), anxiety (p<0.001), anger proneness (p<0.001) and in majority of the domains in SSQoL (p<0.001)- quality of life
Ayurvedic Management of Alzheimer’s Dementia with Depressive Symptoms - A Case Study
Get PDFDementia is a syndrome due to degeneration of the cerebral cortex, usually of a chronic or progressive nature, in which there is disturbance of multiple higher cortical functions, including memory, thinking, orientation, calculation, comprehension, capacity to learn, language skills and judgment. Alzheimer’s dementia, Frontotemporal dementia, dementia with lewy bodies, vascular dementia, Huntington’s dementia and Parkinson dementia are the types of dementia. Alzheimer’s dementia is the most common one among the category. The prevalence of depressive symptoms in dementia is 30% and is presented with symptoms such as poor appetite, sleep perversions and social withdrawal. Features of Smrti vibhrama and characteristics of Pranavrta vyana are being observed Alzheimer’s dementia. There is still no effective cure for dementia in contemporary medicine. So, developing an Ayurvedic protocol to treat dementia is a necessity. This is the case of a 72-year-old male presented with loss of interest in daily activities, fatigue, reduced appetite and increased sleep for duration of 7 months and underwent treatment for 1 month. Diagnosis was done based on the criteria in DSM 5 and the severity was assessed by Mini- mental status Examination and Hamilton’s Depression Scale. The management was a combination of modalities including Deepana, Pacana, Virecana, Nasya and follow-up of 1 month. The treatment modalities were found to be effective in the cognitive and depressive symptoms as well as improving the social behaviour in dementia patient
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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