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    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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

    Spontaneous urinary extravasation from the renal pelvis associated with ureteral fibroepithelial polyp: report of a case

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    右腰背部仙痛を呈した26歳女で, 逆行性腎盂造影で右腎盂からの造影剤溢流, 及び尿管口の近位側4.5cmの右尿管に陰影欠損を認めた.尿細胞診は悪性陰性であった.右尿管部分切除術及び膀胱尿管新吻合術を行った.切除遠位側尿管に灰白色の表面平滑な3mmのポリープ及びポリープの直ぐ遠位側に長さ2cmの尿管狭窄を認めた.病理診断は線維上皮性ポリープであったA 26-year-old woman presented with a colicky right flank pain. Retrograde pyelogram showed extravasation of the contrast medium from the right renal pelvis and a filling defect in the right ureter 4.5 cm proximal to the ureteral orifice. Urinary cytology was negative for malignancy. A partial ureterectomy with a vesicoureteroneostomy was performed. Gross inspection of the resected distal ureter revealed a 3-mm polyp with a grayish-white smooth surface as well as a ureteral stenosis of 2 cm in length just distal to the polyp. Pathological diagnosis was a fibroepithelial polyp. In our case, urinary extravasation probably resulted from an impacted polyp in the stenotic ureter

    A case of primary squamous cell carcinoma of the ureter: biochemical modulation with cisplatin and 5-fluorouracil

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    肉眼的血尿, 左下肢しびれ感を主訴とした62歳男で, 画像診断は左水腎症, 骨盤骨に浸潤している左尿管下端の大きい腫瘤, 及び左閉鎖リンパ節転移を示し, 生検では未分化SCC(扁平上皮癌)であった.経皮的左腎瘻を造設した.CDDP/5FU療法により, 画像上38%縮小, 血中SCG抗原の64%減少をきたした為, 照射を追加し, 膀胱左壁部分切除を含め可及的腫瘍切除を行った.腫瘍切除後4ヵ月に肝転移が出現した.初診から14ヵ月後に死亡したA case of primary squamous cell carcinoma of the ureter is reported. A 62-year-old male presented with gross hematuria and paralysis of the left leg. Abdominal computed tomographic (CT) scan and ultrasonography revealed left hydronephrosis, a massive tumor (8 x 7 cm) in the left distal ureter which invaded the pelvic bone (T4), and left obturator lymph node metastasis (N2). Pathologic examination of the biopsy specimen revealed poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinoma. Cisplatin (100 mg/m2, day 1) and 5-fluorouracil (960 mg/m2/day, days 2-6) were administered systemically in accordance with biochemical modulation regimen for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, and a minor response was obtained (tumor regression rate 38%, serum SCC antigen regression rate 64%). Thereafter, resection of residual tumor was performed, resulting in noncurative operation because of direct invasion to the pelvic bone. Four months after tumorectomy, liver metastasis appeared, and the patient died of disease 14 months after the initial visit. Combination therapy with cisplatin and 5-fluorouracil is widely used for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, and the response rate has been reported to be 46-94%. This regimen may also be effective against urological squamous cell carcinoma

    Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts

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    We 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

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    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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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