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Electromyography in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis
No full textIntroduction: What can be obtained from electromyographic examination in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis? Methods: 120 patients received a physical and electrophysiological examination before surgical operation. The lumbar spinal stenosis was confirmed radiologically. Results: 81% of the patients had typical neurogenic claudication symptoms. 45% had paresis in one or more segments. The lumbar stenosis involved more than one segment in 44% of the patients. Mainly the spinal level L4/5 was affected (76%). EMG changes were found in 77% of the patients, usually bilateral. In 70% of the patients more than one segment was involved. The most abnormal EMG changes (more than 60%) were found in the L5- and S1-segment. Depending on the myotome, involved the EMG was three to eight times more sensitive than neurological examination alone. The EMG changes consisted of spontaneous activity, chronic neurogenic changes or both. Mainly we found a combination of spontaneous activity in S1 and chronic changes in L5. Conclusions: The EMG provides exact information of the segments involved. It is helpful in determining the type (acute and/or chronic) and severity of nerve root lesions. It is not possible to determine the level of spinal stenosis by EMG. Follow-up EMG-examinations yield information on the progression of the disease and help determine the time for surgery
High-resolution rotational spectroscopy of iminosilylene, HNSi
No full textBy means of Fourier transform microwave spectroscopy of a supersonic beam, the fundamental rotational transition of isotopic and vibrationally excited iminosilylene, HNSi, has been detected. In addition to seven isotopic species, vibrational satellite transitions from more than 30 vibrationally excited states, including the three fundamental modes, have been detected. Those from ν2 are particularly intense, enabling detection of transitions from as high as (0,220,0) (i.e. ∼10,000 cm−1 above ground). At high spectral resolution, well-resolved nitrogen quadrupole structure has been observed in nearly every transition. Excitation of ν1 or ν3 changes eQq(N) little, but eQq(N) systematically decreases with increasing excitation of the ν2 bend, from a value of 0.376(5) MHz for (0,00,0) to −2.257(5) MHz for (0,200,0). With the large amount of new data in hand, it has also been possible to determine the leading vibration–rotation constants (αi and γi) for ν2 or ν3 to high precision, and derive a revised semi-empirical equilibrium structure for this fundamental triatomic molecule. Various electronic and molecular properties of iminosilylene have been calculated at the coupled cluster level of theory, and these generally agree well with experiment and previous calculations. An unsuccessful search for HSiN, a highly polar isomer calculated to lie nearly 3 eV above HNSi, is also reported
The molecular distribution of the IRDC G351.77-0.51
No full textContext. Infrared dark clouds are massive, dense clouds seen in extinction against the IR Galactic background. Many of these objects appear to be on the verge of star and star cluster formation.
Aims: Our aim is to understand the physical properties of IRDCs in very early evolutionary phases. We selected the filamentary IRDC G351.77-0.51, which is remarkably IR quiet at 8 μm.
Methods: As a first step, we observed mm dust continuum emission and rotational lines of moderate and dense gas tracers to characterise different condensations along the IRDC and study the velocity field of the filament.
Results: Our initial study confirms coherent velocity distribution along the infrared dark cloud ruling out any coincidental projection effects. Excellent correlation between MIR extinction, mm continumm emission and gas distribution is found. Large-scale turbulence and line profiles throughout the filament is indicative of a shock in this cloud. Excellent correlation between line width and MIR brightness indicates turbulence driven by local star formation
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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