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Closing volume detection by single breath gas washout and forced oscillation technique
No full textClosing volume (CV) is commonly measured by single-breath nitrogen washout (CVSBW). A method based on the forced oscillation technique was recently introduced to detect a surrogate CV (CVFOT). As the two approaches are based on different physiological mechanisms, we aim to investigate CVFOT and CVSBW relationship at different degrees and patterns of airway obstruction. A mathematical model was developed to evaluate the CVSBW and CVFOT sensitivity to different patterns of airway obstruction, either located in a specific lung region or equally distributed throughout the lung. The two CVs were also assessed during slow vital capacity (VC) maneuvers in triplicate in 13 healthy subjects and pre and post-methacholine challenge (Mch) in 12 mild-moderate asthmatics. Model simulations suggest that CVSBW is more sensitive than CVFOT to the presence of few flow-limited or closed airways that modify the contribution of tracer-poor and tracer-rich lung regions to the overall exhaled gas. Conversely, CVFOT occurs only when at least ~65% of lung units are flow-limited or closed, regardless of their regional distribution. CVSBW did not differ between healthy subjects and asthmatics (17±9%VC vs 22±10%VC) while CVFOT did (16±5%VC vs 23±6%VC, p<0.01). In asthmatics, both CVSBW and CVFOT increased post-Mch (33±7%VC p<0.001 and 43±12%VC p<0.001, respectively). CVSBW weakly correlated with CVFOT (r=0.45, p<0.01). The closing capacities (CV+residual volume) were correlated (r=0.74, p<0.001) but the changes with Mch in both CVs and closing capacities did not correlate. CVFOT is easy to measure and provides a reproducible parameter useful for describing airway impairment in obstructive respiratory diseases
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
Etude de la distribution de la ventilation dans la périphérie du poumon: application à la détection d'altérations de structure et de fonction
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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
Modeling nitric oxide production and transport in the human lung
No full textLe travail présenté ici porte sur l’étude de la production et du transport du monoxyde d’azote (NO) dans le poumon humain. Le NO est une molécule dont l’implication dans des processus physiologiques n’a été mis en évidence qu’en 1987. Depuis, il a été démontré que le NO joue de nombreux rôles dans le corps humain. Le NO est un gaz labile (instable) dans les conditions physiologiques, il diffuse très facilement au travers des parois et il a une grande affinité pour l’hémoglobine. La production du NO est liée à 3 isoformes différentes de la protéine appelées synthases du NO ou NO synthases.<p>\Doctorat en sciences, Spécialisation physiqueinfo:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublishe
Asthma control is not related to large airways function
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A european respiratory society technical standard: Exhaled biomarkers in lung disease
No full textBreath tests cover the fraction of nitric oxide in expired gas (FENO), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), variables in exhaled breath condensate (EBC) and other measurements. For EBC and for FENO, official recommendations for standardised procedures are more than 10 years old and there is none for exhaled VOCs and particles. The aim of this document is to provide technical standards and recommendations for sample collection and analytic approaches and to highlight future research priorities in the field. For EBC and FENO, new developments and advances in technology have been evaluated in the current document. This report is not intended to provide clinical guidance on disease diagnosis and management. Clinicians and researchers with expertise in exhaled biomarkers were invited to participate. Published studies regarding methodology of breath tests were selected, discussed and evaluated in a consensus-based manner by the Task Force members. Recommendations for standardisation of sampling, analysing and reporting of data and suggestions for research to cover gaps in the evidence have been created and summarised. Application of breath biomarker measurement in a standardised manner will provide comparable results, thereby facilitating the potential use of these biomarkers in clinical practice.0SCOPUS: re.jinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishe
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
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