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Improvement of the hydraulic conductivity of a landfill cap cover for a low activity nuclear waste by bentonite treatment
No full textItalian Paediatric Health-Related Quality of life (HRQoL) Measurements
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The Cold Pressor Test for the Pediatric Population: Refinement of Procedures, Development of Norms, and Study of Psychological Variables
No full textObjective The aims of the study were: (a) to propose focal refinements to the cold pressor test (CPT) for the
pediatric population, contributing to the development of subjective and behavioral norms; (b) to analyze the
influence of personal (gender, age, and skin-fold thickness), and psychological (anxiety, depression, internalization,
and externalization) variables on pain perception and its correlation with room temperature.
Methods After a phase of adaptation in a water bath (24–27C), the child immersed one arm in cold water
(10C) and reported pain threshold and tolerance. Results The test was conducted on 141 healthy children.
Pain tolerance was reached within the first minute by 50% of the children. Pain intensity affected the children’s
emotional status. Older children tolerated pain for longer. Gender, psychological, and environmental variables
did not influence pain perception. Conclusion This study provides methodological refinements to the CPT
contributing to the development of norms for children
Analysis of the Bispectral Index during natural sleep in children
No full textThe Bispectral Index (BIS) is a system used to measure sedation levels. Some investigators recently analyzed changes in the BIS during natural sleep in adults and found that the BIS diminished considerably as sleep became deeper. No such studies have been undertaken to investigate changes in the BIS in sleeping children. The aim of this work was to assess the trend of the BIS in the various stages of sleep in a group of children, performing a descriptive analysis on a limited number of cases. We evaluated 15 children with negative clinical findings and a normal electroencephalogram (EEG) as part of their follow-up for prior episodes of epilepsy, recording the BIS and EEG in a waking state, in the various stages of sleep and on reawaking. For each stage, the mean value, the standard deviation, and the range of BIS values were calculated. The results showed that the BIS decreased progressively as sleep became deeper. The correlation between the stage of sleep and the BIS was significant. On reawaking, a slow increase was apparent in the BIS. ©2005 by the International Anesthesia Research Society
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
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