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Exploring adaptations to the modified shuttle walking test
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Objective: The 10 m modified shuttle walking test
(MSWT) is recommended to determine the functional
capacity in older individuals and for patients entering
cardiac rehabilitation. Participants are required to
negotiate around cones set 1 m from the end markers.
However, consistent comments indicate that for some
individuals manoeuvring around the cones can be
quite difficult. Therefore, the objective of this study
was to explore differences within and between noncardiac
and postmyocardial infarction (MI) males
during MSWT with and without the cones.
Design: Comparative study.
Participants: 20 post-MI (64.8±6.6, range
51–74 years) and 20 non-cardiac male controls
(64.1±5.7, range 52–74 years) participated.
Methods: Participants performed MSWT with and
without cones. Throughout, the participants expired
air, and the heart rate (bpm) (HR) and ratings of
perceived exertion (RPE) were measured. Participant
protocol preference was recorded verbatim.
Results: One-way analysis of variance found no
significant difference in VO2 peak (cones 20.4±5.1 vs nocones
21.9±4.8 ml/kg/min, p=0.197) or distance ambulated
(cones 631.8±132.9 m vs no-cones 662.4±164.1 m,
p=0.371) between protocols or groups. Analysis comparing
lines of regression showed a significant trajectory difference
in VO2 (ml/kg/min) (p<0.01) between protocols with higher
HR (p<0.01) and respiratory exchange ratio (RER, p<0.001)
values during cones. RPEs were higher for post-MIs versus
controls during both protocols (p<0.05). Post-MIs taking
?-blockers produce significantly lower HR values. The ?2
analysis found no significant difference in protocol
preference (no-cones: all n=25, 63%; post-MIs n=13, 65%;
and controls n=12, 60%).
Conclusions: Post-MIs found both protocols
subjectively harder than controls with no significant
difference in the VO2 peak. However, both groups worked
at a lesser percentage of their anaerobic threshold during
no-cones protocol as indicated by lower RER values.
Importantly, for the post-MIs, this would reduce their risk
of functional impairment. Therefore, though more
research is required, indicators at present are more
favourable for the use of the no-cones with post-MIs
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
The effect of 24 weeks of moderate intensity walking upon metabolic syndrome risk factors in previously sedentary/low active men
Get PDFVariations 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
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