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One year follow up of spinal cord injury patients using a reciprocating gait orthosis: Preliminary results
No full textOne year follow up of spinal cord injury patients using a reciprocating gait orthosis: preliminary report.
Scivoletto G, Petrelli A, Lucente LD, Giannantoni A, Fuoco U, D'Ambrosio F, Filippini V.
Source
Spinal Cord Unit, I.R.C.C.S., S. Lucia, via Ardeatina 306, 00179 - Rome, Italy.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE:
To examine the influence of social, physical and psychological factors in determining the usage/non usage of reciprocating gait orthosis (RGO) in spinal cord injury (SCI) patients.
DESIGN:
Prospective clinical trial.
SETTING:
A large rehabilitation hospital in Rome, Italy.
PARTICIPANTS:
Twenty four SCI patients of traumatic aetiology (all fulfilling the criteria to prescribe the device). Methods: Social, physical and neurological examination according to ASIA standards; psychological enquiry by means of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) and the scale for self rating anxiety and depression of the Cognitive Behavioural Assessment.
RESULTS:
After 1 year follow up 11 (46%) of our patients no longer used the RGO. There was no statistically significant difference between patients who used the RGO and those who rejected the orthosis with regard to social and physical data. There was a significant difference (P=0.005 at the end of training and P=0.003 at 1 year follow up) with regard to functional ambulation level. With regard to psychological enquiry RGO-non users showed a higher frequency of values over the mean in the E scale (extroversion) of the EPQ than RGO-users (P=0.05).
CONCLUSIONS:
None of the identified parameters were useful to predict the use/rejection of the orthosis. Although they need to be confirmed, our psychological data suggest that extensive psychological testing could be useful to sharpen the ability to predict
Valutazione psicologica e sessualità in pazienti di sesso femminile affette da lesione midollare.
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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
Sequential treatment of chronic constipation in paraplegic subjects
No full textChronic constipation is the main gastrointestinal complaint of spinal cord injury (SCI) patients, and has a significant effect on patients' lives, concerning nursing dependence, morbidity and complications. Many therapies have been proposed to treat chronic severe constipation, most of them with limited effect or being unpredictable in their effect or being expensive or very radical. Ten spinal cord injury patients have been submitted to a therapeutic protocol based on a high residue diet, a standardised water intake, and on the use of a sequential schedule of evacuating stimuli. After four weeks of treatment the patients showed an increased frequency of bowel movements per week, a decreased total gastrointestinal transit time, and a decreased need for oral and rectal laxatives. This treatment seems to be effective in modifying patients' bowel habits, and therefore could be considered asa standardised protocol for the management of severe constipation in those who are paraplegic
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
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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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