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Case report of delayed seroprotection rather than non-response after primary three-dose hepatitis B vaccination
No full textWe describe a delayed hepatitis B seroprotection 12 weeks after the primary vaccination schedule in a 57-year-old male with smoldering multiple myeloma. Based on undetectable anti-HBs antibodies 6 weeks after the third vaccination, the index person was previously considered to be a hepatitis B vaccine non-responder. Because hepatitis B vaccination started in the 1980s, many hepatitis B vaccine non-responders have received a revaccination regimen. If more cases of genuine delayed hepatitis B seroprotection surface in patients with hematologic malignancies, delayed seroprotection should be considered before the commencement of hepatitis B revaccination. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.</p
Cascade of care among hepatitis B patients in Maastricht, the Netherlands, 1996 to 2018
No full textBackground & aims: There are approximately 49,000 people (0.34%) in the Netherlands with a chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. It is unclear how many are linked to care and under follow-up in hepatitis outpatient clinics. This study determined the cascade of care and identified predictors for not being linked to care and loss to follow-up in Maastricht, the Netherlands.Methods: All hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg)-positive patients between December 1, 1996 and September 30, 2018 were retrospectively identified.Results: In total, 644 HBsAg-positive patients were identified; of whom 75 had acute HBV infection, 471 chronic HBV infection and 98 unknown. Out of 569 individuals with a chronic/unknown HBV status, 134/569 (23.6%) were not linked to care and 58.7% (195/332 after excluding those who died or achieved HBsAg-seroclearance) were loss to follow-up (LTFU). A predictor for not being linked to care was Caucasian ethnicity (odds ratio (OR) = 2.76 (95% Confidence Interval (CI) = 1.21-6.29); p = .015). Predictors for LTFU were older age (OR = 0.97 (CI = 0.94-0.99); p = .008), HBV DNA >20,000 IU/mL (OR = 0.44 (CI = 0.21 - 0.93); p = .033) and Asian ethnicity (OR = 0.46, (CI = 0.21-1.00); p = .050). Rates of not being linked to care and LTFU decreased over time from 12.7% in 1996 to 4.4% in 2018 and from 79.2% in 1996 to 37.2% in 2018, respectively.Conclusions: A considerable amount of HBsAg-positive individuals were not linked to care or LTFU. This study indicates that ethnicity plays a role in linkage to care and follow-up. Further research is needed to elaborate on those results.</p
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
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
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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