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Effectiveness of Medical-dental Coordinated Care for Diabetes Patients With Periodontal Disease at Selected Public Primary Care Clinics, in Kuantan, Pahang
Get PDFIn Malaysia, prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) has increased almost a two-fold from
11.6% in 2006 to 22.6% in 2013 and among them only 20 % achieved treatment target
of HbA1c <6.5%) while healthy periodontal tissues in all age groups decreased from
9.8% in 2000 to 3.2% in 2010 with increasing severe complicated periodontal disease
(PD)cases. Medical-dental coordinated care is recommended under the light of bidirectional
relationship between DM and PD and effect of periodontal treatment (PT) on
glycemic control of DM patients. However, PD assessment and taking treatment for it
have been still overlooked by both DM patients themselves and medical professionals.
Besides, evidences on effectiveness of medical-dental coordinated care to DM patients
with periodontitis from public primary care clinics (PPCCs) and administrative issues to
implement it have been still limited. This clinical management intervention study aimed
to evaluate the effectiveness of medical-dental coordinated care to DM patients with
periodontitis including constraints to implement it. Screening PD among DM patient at
diabetic clinics of 3 PPCCs, referring DM patients with periodontitis to PD specialists’
clinics, providing standard-DM care and periodontal treatment (PT), sharing glycemic
control and PD-status information, tracing defaulters and encouraging for regular DM
follow-up and taking PT completely by the medical team and PD specialists were
included in the medical-dental coordinated care. Out of 239 DM patients who were
screened PD by basic periodontal examination (BPE), 52% (123/239) had periodontitis.
Out of 123 DM patients with periodontitis, 44 % (54/123) agreed to seek PT and
referred them to two PD specialists’ clinics. However, 71% (38/54) took PT and 27%
(16/54) declined to PT appointment offered by PD specialists’ clinics. Out of 38
patients, 97.4%(37/38) patients adhered to DM care while only 44.7% (17/38) patients
completed PT because of having inconvenience to take PT. Achievement of target
glycemic control HbA1c ≤ 6.5% of the cases who completed PT was significantly
highest comparing with that of the positive controls who did not complete PT and the
negative controls who did not take PT (47.1% vs 15.8% vs 15.2%). Clinical resolution
of periodontitis in PPD significantly reduced after taking PT -probing periodontal depth
3.34 mm (before) vs 2.63 mm (after). Number needed to treat (95%CI) and
standardized mean difference of taking PT on achieving glycemic control target in HbA1c were 4.9 (1.3-19.1), and -0.52 respectively. Thus, the medical-dental coordinated care should be provided to DM patients with periodontitis to assist in
reducing of DM patients who did not achieve their HbA1c target. A further study should
be conducted to explore the inconveniences of the patients to seek PT. (Abstract by Author
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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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