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The Singapore story
No full textIn this presentation, Ms Tan Peng Chian talked about “Including preschool children with developmental needs: Factors influencing teachers’ Intention and use of inclusive practices”
Induction of labour: Facilitation of labour onset, prediction of success and improving the induction process / Tan Peng Chiong
Full text linkLabour is induced in about 25% of pregnancies demonstrating its importance in
contemporary obstetric practice. The papers forming the thesis are grouped as follows
surrounding the central theme of inducing labour:
1) Coitus as a home remedy and membrane sweeping as an office procedure to
facilitate onset of labour
The works on coitus provide important lessons about human studies. The initial
promise from an observational study demonstrating an association of coitus with
earlier labour onset was not supported by the findings of two subsequent clinical trials
on coitus as an intervention. The secondary data analysis of the first trial also provide
evidence that coitus at term does not facilitate labour onset. The paper on serial
weekly membrane sweeping to facilitate labour onset in women desiring vaginal birth
after Caesarean did not demonstrate statistically significant results but the observed
effect is smaller than assumed.
2) Evaluation of sonographic predictors of successful induction of labour resulting in
vaginal delivery
The works on ultrasound parameters as predictors of successful labour induction
contributed to the developing literature. We confirmed that transvaginal ultrasound is
better tolerated than digital assessment for the Bishop Score. This can be important for
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maternal satisfaction in obstetric care. Transvaginal ultrasound measurement of
cervical length is probably a better predictor of labour inducibility than Bishop Score
but additional equipment and skill acquisition are needed. Our original study linking
membrane sweeping and cervical length changes as assessed by transvaginal
ultrasound demonstrate a positive association between postsweep cervical shortening
and subsequent vaginal delivery. Postsweep cervical shortening may be a marker of
cervical pliability leading to labour success.
3) Novel refinements of currently used labour induction regimens to improve
efficiency in high, mixed and low risk populations.
The work on membrane sweeping as an immediate adjunct to formal labour induction
is important as it confirms that adjunctive membrane sweeping reduces operative
delivery. Concurrent titrated oxytocin infusion and dinoprostone pessary in nulliparas
with intact membranes and unfavourable cervixes is a viable option based on our
largely positive findings. The few past trials on concurrent regimens all used quite
different regimens; any meta-analysis would be difficult to constitute and interpret. On
the other hand in nulliparas with unfavourable cervixes after term prelabour rupture of
membranes, labour induction with titrated oxytocin infusion is possibly better leaving
little rationale for a future concurrent regimen trial. The case for immediate titrated
oxytocin infusion following amniotomy for labour induction in parous women with
favourable cervixes is more balanced. Immediate oxytocin is quicker at achieving
vaginal delivery but minor abnormality in fetal heart rate tracing is also more
common
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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