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Primary and secondary prevention of human papillomavirus-associated cancer: it's not all about women
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Epidemiology of Parvovirus B19 Infection In an Italian Metropolitan Area, 2012–2024: COVID‐19 Pre‐Pandemic, Pandemic and Post‐Pandemic Trends
Full text linkParvovirus B19 (B19V) is the most relevant human pathogenic virus in the Parvoviridae family. In years 2023-2024, a high incidence of B19V infections has been reported from many countries; we reconstructed the circulation of B19V in an Italian metropolitan area during the past 12 years (2012-2024), to elucidate evolving epidemiological trends and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. To this aim, we included a consecutive time-series analysis of the B19V laboratory investigation carried out in the Microbiology Unit, S.Orsola University Hospital of Bologna, Italy. A total of 29020 serum samples, from July 2012 to June 2024, were tested for the presence of both B19V IgG/IgM antibodies and/or for the presence of B19V DNA. Results were treated in aggregate form, by elaboration of demographic and laboratory data. Data reveal how circulation patterns of B19V have been conditioned by the COVID-19 pandemic. From 2012 until 2019, alternating phases of lower (years 2012-2014, 2017-2018) or higher (years 2015-2016, 2019) circulation were present, respectively 1.8%-2.6% and 4.7%-4.9% of tested patients. From 2020 to 2023, the lowest incidence of B19V infection was reported, 1.0%-1.3%. An unprecedented increase was observed in the first 6 months of 2024, up to 20.1%, mainly in the 0-10 and 41-50 age groups. In 2024, 53 infections were diagnosed in 115 pregnant women (46.1%). Our data highlight the epidemiological trends in B19V and confirm both the block during the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing upsurge in transmission in 2024. The inclusion of B19V in rationally planned screening and diagnostic protocols appears justified in terms of appropriate surveillance and clinical management
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
Human papillomavirus evaluation of vemurafenib induced skin epithelial tumors: a case series
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