Academic Productivity Research Articles

Academic production, teaching profiles and the training of academic departments of normal schools

Academic production, teaching profiles and the training of academic departments of normal schools

Mentoring: Shaping the professional identity of the academic internal medicine hospitalist.

Burnout and lagging academic productivity are pressing challenges in hospital medicine, leading to stagnation and attrition. Mentoring shapes professional identity formation and enhances faculty vitality and retention, but has not been optimized among academic hospitalists. We sought to explore how mentoring impacts academic hospitalist professional identity and to elucidate barriers to mentoring in the field. We conducted focus groups at three academic medical centers. Informed by social-constructivist theory of identity development, we coded deidentified data and performed thematic analysis. Thirty-one academic hospitalists participated with 1 to >20 years experience. Mentoring shaped professional identity formation in six core domains: choosing academic hospital medicine, identifying and focusing on an area of interest, progressing career, navigating work-life integration, staying in academic medicine, and becoming a mentor. Distinct models included dyadic mentoring, peer mentoring, organic mentoring, and mentoring teams, each with benefits and limitations. We identified nine key mentoring actions that influenced hospitalist professional identity formation and career development. Mentoring barriers included lack of time, awareness, and access to experienced mentors, as well as poor quality mentoring and mentor-mentee malalignment. Aspects of hospitalists' professional identity also posed barriers, including ambivalence around academic identity. Mentoring fosters academic thriving and retention in academic hospitalists. Access to effective mentoring remains lacking due to few senior mentors in the relatively new field of hospital medicine and reticence in academic identity, among other factors. Mentoring training, impact on underrepresented minority hospitalists, and integration into institutional culture should be considered for enhancing the career development of academic hospitalists.

Evaluating academic productivity and match outcomes in neurosurgery residents from medical schools without a neurosurgery residency program: a 2016-2022 bibliometric analysis.

Transition of the United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 1 to a pass/fail structure has focused attention on medical student research in residency application. Previous studies have explored how various factors affect the neurosurgery match success, but none have focused on applicants from schools without a neurosurgery residency program. The authors compiled a list of neurosurgery residents matched from 2016 to 2022 from schools lacking a neurosurgery program. They gathered demographic and bibliometric data, focusing on academic productivity before residency. The distinction between the top 40 and non-top 40 programs used the 5-year institutional h-index (ih[5]-index) of departments. Between 2016 and 2022, the gross number of students entering neurosurgery from schools without a home program rose from 15 to 26 in 2021, declining to 23 in 2022. The range of matched applicants per school was 0 to 10. The median number of publications per resident increased from 2 in 2016 to 5 in 2022 (p < 0.001). The lowest and highest numbers of publications by applicants were 0 and 40, respectively, with 22.5% reporting no publications. The lowest and highest h-indices by applicants were 0 and 11, respectively, with nearly one-third (31.2%) possessing an h-index of 0. Applicants from schools lacking a neurosurgery residency program who matched into top 40 programs had a publication range of 0-11, with a higher median of 3 compared with those who did not (median 2, range 0-8). While no significant differences were found in publication numbers (p = 0.084), a difference in h-index was observed (p = 0.024) between the two groups. Publications significantly correlated with the h-index, with each additional publication increasing the h-index by 0.19 (p < 0.001, adjusted R2 = 0.3348). Median publication counts have increased in this cohort, but they do not distinguish top 40 program matches. Conversely, the h-index, correlating with publication quantity and journal impact factor, does.

Generative Artificial Intelligence as Hypercommons: Ethics of Authorship and Ownership

In this editorial essay, we argue that Generative Artificial Intelligence programs (GenAI) draw on what we term a “hypercommons”, involving collectively produced inputs and labour that are largely invisible or untraceable. We argue that automatizing the exploitation of common inputs, in ways that remix and reconfigure them, can lead to a crisis of academic authorship in which the moral agency involved in scholarly production is increasingly eroded. We discuss the relationship between the hypercommons and authorship in terms of moral agency and the ethics of academic production, speculating on different responses to the crisis of authorship as posed by GenAI.

A Bibliometric and Visualised Analysis of Proliferative Verrucous Leucoplakia From 2003 to 2023

BackgroundProliferative verrucous leucoplakia (PVL) is a rare but slow-growing, aggressive leucoplakia lesion associated with the highest malignant transformation rate in oral potentially malignant disorders (OPMDs). With increasing attention paid to PVL, it is urgent for us to analyse and summarise the publications globally using comprehensive bibliometric studies to help researchers propose possible future research directions and guide them to further conduct relevant studies in the domain. ObjectivesThe purpose of the study was to evaluate global academic productivity, impact, and collaboration of potentially malignant oral disorder PVL utilising bibliometrics based on annual number of publications, countries and regions, institution, authors, journals, citations and co-occurrences of author keywords over the last 20 years. MethodsThis study searched publications pertaining to proliferative verrucous leucoplakia in the Web of Science Core Collection, spanning from 2003 to 2023. Utilizing VOSviewer, R software, Bibliometric online analysis platform, CiteSpace software, and Microsoft Excel, we conducted a bibliometric and visualised analysis of PVL. ResultsThe quantity of pertinent publications in this research domain displays a fluctuating but overall upward trend. In aggregate, there are 148 articles and 61 reviews, encompassing research contributions from 44 countries, 45 institutions, and involving 831 authors. Among these publications, the USA, Spain, and UK emerged as the predominant contributing nations. Predominantly, articles found their publication venue in “Pathology Research and Practice.” Notably, the author with the highest number of publications and most influence is Warnakulasuriya S. The top 3 keywords include “Proliferative Verrucous Leucoplakia,” “Squamous-Cell Carcinoma,” “Oral Leucoplakia,” and “Potentially Malignant Disorders.” ConclusionIn this investigation, statistical analysis and network visualisation were conducted to reveal the research progress, trends, and trending topics on PVL via a thorough bibliometric analysis. We found that current publications comprise mainly case reports, there is a significant research need to explore the molecular mechanisms, specific diagnostic criteria, and effective management options for PVL. Our work should serve as a key reference and a directional guide for future research in this domain.

Semeadura dos Cravos: intelectuais expatriados na resistência ao salazarismo

In this article we deal with the political resistance of intelectual Portugueses who migrated to the city of São Paulo in the 1950s. The vast majority of these intellectuals, were persecuted for their contrary ideas to the Salazarist regime in Portugal. Such intellectuals left their homeland to avoid being persecuted and arrested by the PIDE. In São Paulo city, they began to express themselves through academic productions, conferences, publications of books, articles and magazines; later they created the newspapers Portugal Democrático and Portugal Livre, the latter being the result of dissent from the former. These intellectuals formed a platoon of resistance to the Portuguese dictatorial regime, spreading ideas favorable to freedom of expression in Portugal and the decolonization of Portuguese Africa, which consequently weakened the Portuguese dictatorial system. The ideas of these intellectuals added to the international situation and the transformations through which spans this historical period.

Análise jurimétrica de acórdãos fundamentados na Lei Anticorrupção e do controle judicial nos processos administrativos de responsabilização

The research examines the judicial control in administrative processes of accountability governed by the Anti-Corruption Law, by observing judicial decisions from second instance courts, encompassing Appeals, Interlocutory Appeals, Writs of Mandamus, and Necessary Reviews. The work is divided into three parts: presentation of the methodological itinerary, exposition of the doctrinal and legal aspects of the administrative and judicial processes of accountability provided for in the Anti-Corruption Law, and analysis of the collected data through the study of judgments, their grounds, and the presentation of comparative graphs. The justification for this research is based on the relevance attributed to the accountability of legal entities in the administrative sphere, as well as the importance of examining the jurisprudential actions in accountability processes governed by the Anti-Corruption Law. With the law approaching its ten-year anniversary in August 2023, there is a need for greater academic production, employing a qualitative and quantitative approach through the analysis of judicial decisions. The methodology combines techniques of bibliographic research, jurimetrics, and documentary analysis, encompassing both quantitative and qualitative approaches. The results of this study highlight inconsistencies in jurisprudence, such as difficulties in researching court websites, the application of Necessary Reviews in cases related to the Anti-Corruption Law, and the application of the theory of administrative deference on a case-by-case basis.

Geography of Knowledge Production in European Urban Studies

The production of scientific knowledge in urban studies is not evenly distributed. Studies produced in some academic centres are cited more frequently than others and have a larger impact on the academic community. This article traces the spatial concentration of urban studies in European countries over the last decade. On a theoretical level, it refers to the theory of dependent development, distinguishing areas of global core, periphery and semi-periphery, and applying this theory to the production of academic knowledge.Based on the bibliometric data of articles from selected renowned international journals, the article constructs a synthetic index of the centrality of academic knowledge production in urban studies, developed in the academic centres of individual countries. In particular, it draws attention to the peripheral or semi-peripheral position of almost all Central and Eastern European countries.

Academic Productivity of Applicant and Program as Predictors of a Future Academic Career in Neurosurgery

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Academic productivity is viewed as a critical objective factor for a neurosurgery residency applicant. There has been a consistent rise in academic productivity over the last decade, but a lack of consistent data on the utility of this in helping neurosurgery residency programs identify which applicants will enter academic neurosurgery. This cross-sectional study evaluates the predictiveness of academic productivity before and during residency on career choice, both independent and dependent of training environment. METHODS: The 116 accredited neurosurgery residency programs were split into 4 quartile groups based on their 2022 Doximity rankings. Six neurosurgery residency programs were randomly selected from each quartile. Publicly available information including number and type (before or during residency) of publication and type of employment (academic vs nonacademic) was collected on neurosurgeons who matriculated into residency in the year 2000 or later. Multivariable logistic regression was used to explore the associations among neurosurgeon and program characteristics, and an academic career. RESULTS: A total of 557 neurosurgeons were identified. Group 1 (n = 194) had the highest median publications during residency total (12) and first author (5), as well as the highest percentage of neurosurgeons who attended a top 20 medical school (38.7%), hold a higher educational degree (20.6%), and pursued an academic career (72.2%). Neither attending a top 20 medical school, holding a higher educational degree, nor publications were significant multivariable predictors of an academic career. Being in group 1 was the only significant predictor of entering an academic career across analyses. CONCLUSION: Only residency group ranking, not academic productivity, predicted a future academic career. For residency programs evaluating applicants as future academic neurosurgeons, this suggests that program environment is more predictive than traditionally valued characteristics such as research productivity. Additional work is needed to elucidate characteristics or practices by which future academic neurosurgeons can be identified.

Senior Mentorship and Scholarly Success: Assessing Influences on Successful Neurosurgery Residency Applicant's H-Index

Research productivity is on the rise as neurosurgical residency positions become increasingly competitive. We explored the relationship between neurosurgical residency applicant's senior author's research productivity and matching into a neurosurgery residency program. A retrospective analysis of bibliometric data for applicants who matched into neurosurgery in 2022-2023 and their senior authors was conducted using Scopus. Logistic regression revealed a significant association between h-index values and top 40 match outcomes (P= 0.038). The maximum h-index of senior authors significantly predicted matches at top 40 programs (P=0.003). Affiliation with a top 40 medical school increased both applicant and senior author h-indices (P=0.05, P < 0.001 respectively). Linear regression of the maximum h-index of senior authors in preresidency publications explained 42% of this variability (P < 0.001). A multiple linear regression model incorporating this with publication number elucidated 69% of the variance in interns' h-index. Authorship data categorized as first, second, and third author positions showed 1847 first author, 1417second author, and 118 third author publications over 2-years. Applicants at top 40 residency programs had more first and second author publications compared to those from nontop 40 programs (P= 0.0158, P= 0.0275). There is a strong correlation between a neurosurgical applicant's academic output and that of their senior authors. The number of publications and the maximum h-index of senior authors significantly predict applicant h-indices. We also demonstrated that there is a significant difference in the academic productivity of applicants and senior authors of applicants who successfully match into a top 40 i(h)5 rated neurosurgical residency.

ChatGPT: Between Opportunities and Challanges in Increasing Academic Productivity

Introduction: CHATGPT, one of Open AI's successful new innovations, has amazed people all over the world. ChatGPT helps scientific research in learning can be a beneficial educational innovation for students and higher education but also has promising potential and threats. Purpose: This research will provide an overview of the opportunities and challenges of using ChatGPT for students. Method: Literature Study, a qualitative approach. Finding: The main challenges and ethical implications of ChatGPT in higher education :1. Academic Integrity 2. Gender and Diversity 3. Accessibility. Navigating the Digital Shift: Enhancing Digital Competency in Education. Human-AI collaboration and advanced technology pedagogy: an opportunity for ChatGPT. Conclusion: ChatGPT can be used in higher education and training, to (i) assign individualized teaching resources and study plans based on each learner's needs and interests, (ii) guide learners through their education in a timely manner, (iii) produce learning materials that interesting things such as tests, interesting assignments, and interactive videos, (iv) supporting lecturers in evaluating student work and providing constructive criticism, and (v) organizing online discussions and collaboration between students and lecturers and librarians. Keyword: ChatGPT, Academic productivity, AI, Artificial Intelligence ------------------------------------- CHATGPT: ANTARA PELUANG DAN TANTANGAN DALAM MENINGKATKAN PRODUKTIVITAS AKADEMIK ABSTRAK Pendahuluan: CHATGPT, salah satu inovasi baru Open AI yang sukses, telah membuat kagum banyak orang di seluruh dunia. ChatGPT membantu penelitian ilmiah dalam pembelajaran dapat menjadi inovasi pendidikan yang bermanfaat bagi pelajar dan perguruan tinggi namun ChatGPT memiliki potensi dan ancaman. Tujuan Penelitian: memberikan gambaran mengenai peluang dan tantangan penggunaan chat GPT bagi pelajar/mahasiswa. Metode Penelitian: Studi Literatur, pendekatan kualitatif. Hasil Penelitian: Tantangan utama dan implikasi etis ChatGPT di pendidikan tinggi :1. Integritas Akademik 2. Gender dan Keberagaman 3. Aksesibilitas. Menavigasi Pergeseran Digital: Meningkatkan Kompetensi Digital dalam Pendidikan Kolaborasi. Manusia-AI dan pedagogi teknologi canggih: peluang untuk ChatGPT. Kesimpulan: ChatGPT dapat digunakan dalam pendidikan tinggi dan pelatihan, untuk (i) menetapkan sumber daya pengajaran dan rencana studi individual berdasarkan kebutuhan dan minat masing-masing peserta didik, (ii) membimbing peserta didik melalui pendidikan secara tepat waktu, (iii) menghasilkan materi pembelajaran yang menarik hal-hal seperti tes, tugas menarik, dan video interaktif, (iv) mendukung dosen dalam menilai hasil karya mahasiswa dan memberikan kritik yang membangun, dan (v) menyelenggarakan diskusi online dan kolaborasi antara mahasiswa dengan dosen dan pustakawan. Kata Kunci: ChatGPT, Produktivitas Akademik, AI, Kecerdasan Buatan

Gender dynamics and academic rank in emergency medicine collaboration networks: A social network and gender propensity analysis

BackgroundAcademic productivity is bolstered by collaboration, which is in turn related to connectivity between individuals. Gender disparities have been identified in academics in terms of both academic promotion and output. Using gender propensity and network analysis, we aimed to describe patterns of collaboration on publications in emergency medicine (EM), focusing on two Midwest academic departments. MethodsWe identified faculty at two EM departments, their academic rank, and their publications from 2020 to 2022 and gathered information on their co-authors. Using network analysis, gender propensity and standard statistical analyses we assessed the collaboration network for differences between men and women. ResultsSocial network analysis of collaboration in academic emergency medicine showed no difference in the ways that men and women publish together. However, individuals with higher academic rank, regardless of gender, had more importance to the network. Men had a propensity to collaborate with men, and women with women. The rates of gender propensity for men and women fell between the gender ratios of emergency medicine (65%/35%) and the general population (50%/50%), 59.6% and 44%, respectively, suggesting a tendency toward homophily among men. ConclusionOur study aims to use network analysis and gender propensity to identify patterns of collaboration. We found that further work in the area of network analysis application to academic productivity may be of value, with a particular focus on the role of academic rank. Our methodology may aid department leaders by using the information from local analyses to identify opportunities to support faculty members to broaden and diversify their networks.

The State of Diversity Among Consultant Neurosurgeons in the United Kingdom: Open Science, Education and Academic Success

It is important to have a diverse workforce in clinical and research environments. A cross-sectional study was conducted to examine the possible presence of gender, perceived skin color, education, academic productivity, and career progression inequalities among neurosurgeons in the United Kingdom. A list of all consultant neurosurgeons working in the United Kingdom (N= 384) was obtained from the Specialist Info website. Data about their education, research activity, academic productivity, impact, and progression were obtained from publicly available online sources. Over 90% of consultants and all full professors were men. There was a small number of black or brown consultant neurosurgeons and no black full professors. Very few black or brown consultants obtained their medical degree from a top university or had a PhD. There were no gender disparities in currently being affiliated with a university (or top university), obtaining a PhD or Master's degree, ranking of the university from which they obtained their medical degree, Master's degree or PhD, or number of pages and open access availability of their PhD thesis. Neurosurgeons who obtained their medical degree from the UK and those with a PhD had more publications, citations and a higher h-index. Male (vs. female) academic neurosurgeons had more publications, nonself-citations, and a higher h-index, and white (vs. brown) female neurosurgeons had more citations per paper. This study identified important gender, skin color, education, academic productivity, and career progression inequalities in the 2023 UK consultant neurosurgery workforce.

Considerations about Heritage Education in publications indexed in BRAPCI

The production of scientific articles and events on Heritage Education indexed in the Reference Database of Journal Articles in Information Science was mapped. We sought to identify the stage of development of academic production; investigate who the researchers are, what are the preferred scientific communication channels and the areas where the topic approaches the world of Information Science. The research is quantitative-qualitative and exploratory in nature, using the methodology of metric information studies based on text analysis, covering the entire period of coverage of the base from 1972 to 2022. The research corpus consists of 32 publications. As a general result, it is clear that Archival Science and Librarianship are the disciplines that are most closely related to the topic respectively. It is concluded that scientific production on Heritage Education in Information Science is still embryonic, demanding discussions, studies and reflections compared to the potential of the areas involved.

Publish or Perish? An Analysis of the Internal Mechanism Driving Academic Productivity of Graduate Students

Publish or Perish? An Analysis of the Internal Mechanism Driving Academic Productivity of Graduate Students

Problems of digital inclusion in vocational (vocation-technical) education institutions

The content of the article presents an analysis of the problems and trends in the development of modern digital technologies of inclusive education in the field of professional education, taking into account the development of relevant guidelines for customers of educational services. Current problems of digital inclusion in vocational education institutions are considered, namely: high-quality digital Ukrainian-language content that is accessible to various nosologies of education seekers with special educational needs, and the problem of training pedagogical workers in educational institutions to implement the concept of digital inclusion. It was determined that the use of digital technologies means a paradigm shift in approaches to teaching and learning, which is a potential for the transformation of professional education and an opportunity for customers of educational services to succeed in the global economy, ensuring the personalization of the educational process and overcoming the distance between the academic environment and production. At the same time, realizing this potential requires concerted action to address issues such as the digital divide, technology obsolescence, and quality and trust issues. In the context of inclusive educational innovation, digital accessibility is an important aspect of ensuring that all people, including persons with disabilities, have equal access to digital technologies and services. During the study of trends in the development of modern learning technologies in the field of professional and technical education, the staff of the department conducted an analysis of the interaction of inclusive learning technologies and modern digital technologies, focused on understanding how these two elements can interact to create an inclusive educational environment. The ways and possibilities of using digital technologies in the process of inclusive education are determined. The implementation and integration of digital technologies requires significant investment in infrastructure and ongoing support to ensure their sustainability and effectiveness. A successful example of such an infrastructural solution is the single educational-digital ecosystem of the Bilotserk Institute of Continuing Professional Education, which combines the intellectual, scientific, professional, educational, and technological potential of the subjects of the network educational-digital environment, provides for the use of digital, andragogic and interactive technologies in virtual space. The findings of the study indicate that although digital technologies have the potential to significantly improve the quality of vocational education, their successful implementation depends on addressing the associated challenges. It is important to constantly evaluate, study and introduce new initiatives in the field of digital learning and digital inclusion into the educational process, constantly update the educational process through the integration of digital technologies, ensure the appropriate quality of educational programs and resources.

Digital and Precision Technologies in Dairy Cattle Farming: A Bibliometric Analysis.

The advancement of technology has significantly transformed the livestock landscape, particularly in the management of dairy cattle, through the incorporation of digital and precision approaches. This study presents a bibliometric analysis focused on these technologies involving dairy farming to explore and map the extent of research in the scientific literature. Through this review, it was possible to investigate academic production related to digital and precision livestock farming and identify emerging patterns, main research themes, and author collaborations. To carry out this investigation in the literature, the entire timeline was considered, finding works from 2008 to November 2023 in the scientific databases Scopus and Web of Science. Next, the Bibliometrix (version 4.1.3) package in R (version 4.3.1) and its Biblioshiny software extension (version 4.1.3) were used as a graphical interface, in addition to the VOSviewer (version 1.6.19) software, focusing on filtering and creating graphs and thematic maps to analyze the temporal evolution of 198 works identified and classified for this research. The results indicate that the main journals of interest for publications with identified affiliations are "Computers and Electronics in Agriculture" and "Journal of Dairy Science". It has been observed that the authors focus on emerging technologies such as machine learning, deep learning, and computer vision for behavioral monitoring, dairy cattle identification, and management of thermal stress in these animals. These technologies are crucial for making decisions that enhance health and efficiency in milk production, contributing to more sustainable practices. This work highlights the evolution of precision livestock farming and introduces the concept of digital livestock farming, demonstrating how the adoption of advanced digital tools can transform dairy herd management. Digital livestock farming not only boosts productivity but also redefines cattle management through technological innovations, emphasizing the significant impact of these trends on the sustainability and efficiency of dairy production.

Abstract PO-023: CD70 deregulation in follicular lymphoma at diagnosis is associated with relapse and opens new avenues for dual CD19-CD70 CAR-T therapy

Abstract Follicular lymphoma (FL) is the most common indolent B-cell lymphoma. Despite most patients achieve a complete response with first-line treatment, an important fraction of them relapse, which may worsen the prognosis and increase the risk of a histological transformation to aggressive lymphoma. Therefore, there is a need to better stratify the patients at the diagnosis and develop tailored therapies for high-risk patients. Here we have assessed the immune profile (Nanostring® nCounter) in FFPE-derived biopsies in a series of FL patients at diagnosis, homogenously treated with immunochemotherapy regimen (mostly R-CHOP), and followed-up at Hospital Clínic de Barcelona for more than 12 years. By comparing patients who experienced relapse (n=20) with those who did not relapse at any time (NR, n=12), we have found 31 differentially expressed genes, 25 of them up-regulated in the relapse group. Among them, we have further focused on the role of CD70 in FL pathogenesis. mRNA CD70 was higher in those patients who eventually relapsed and correlated with inferior PFS. Moreover, CD70high FL cases bear a limited number of recurrent somatic mutations. We next sought to determine the specific subpopulations expressing CD70 by multiplex immunofluorescence (Vectra Polaris). Interestingly, we have demonstrated it is mainly expressed in tumor cells correlating with inferior PFS. Moreover, a fraction of T cells from the tumor microenvironment also expresses CD70. Intriguingly, higher levels of CD70 were detected in both CD4+ and CD8+ T cells in the relapse group, including T regulatory and T follicular helper cells. CD70 interacts with CD27, its only known ligand, and can be mutually activated. While CD27 RNA levels did not change between groups, CD27 protein was increased in the B cell population in patients who eventually relapse and in TFH cells, while it was down-regulated in CD8+ and CD4+ T helper non-follicular cells. Furthermore, we found an association between the percentage of CD70+ cells within B cell population and CD70+ in CD4+ and CD8+ cells (R=0.51, p &amp;lt; 0.05). To investigate the role of CD70 in FL pathogenesis we generated two CD70 KO cell lines and FL patient derived cells (n=4) using CRISPR/Cas9 technique. By co-culturing T cells from healthy donors with CD70+ or CD70- FL cell lines, we observed CD70+ tumor cells promote CD70 expression in T cells. In primary samples, we have demonstrated that CD70-KO B cells exhibit reduced response to proliferative stimuli. Moreover, RNAseq analysis followed by GSEA pathway assignment indicated that CD70 expression was related to increased angiogenesis, glycolysis and hypoxia. Finally, to advance towards personalized therapies for this high-risk patient and taking advantage of our institution CAR-T program, we have generated a dual CD19-CD70 CAR-T combining an approved academic product, ARI-0001, and a truncated CD27 protein. Finally, we have demonstrated that this novel CAR-T is effective in both cell lines and ex vivo FL spheroids (PDLS, Dobaño-López, Blood Cancer J 2024), while in vivo studies are ongoing. Citation Format: Ferran Araujo-Ayala, Mireia Bachiller, Raluca Alexandru, Pablo Mozas, Salut Colell, María Villalba-Esparza, Judith Mateos-Jaimez, Ferran Nadeu, Andrea Rivero, Maria Ros, Cèlia Dobaño-López, Juan Garcia Valero, Neus Serrat, Marta Gimenez-Alejandre, Ariadna Giro, Daniel Hodson, Armando López-Guillermo, Elias Campo, Dolors Colomer, Alba Maiques-Diaz, José Ignacio Martín-Subero, Sílvia Beà, Laura Magnano, Sonia Guedan, Carlos E. de Andrea, Patricia Pérez-Galan. CD70 deregulation in follicular lymphoma at diagnosis is associated with relapse and opens new avenues for dual CD19-CD70 CAR-T therapy [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the Fourth AACR International Meeting on Advances in Malignant Lymphoma: Maximizing the Basic-Translational Interface for Clinical Application; 2024 Jun 19-22; Philadelphia, PA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Blood Cancer Discov 2024;5(3_Suppl):Abstract nr PO-023.

QOL-25. DETERMINING THE BURDEN OF SLEEP PATHOLOGY AMONG PEDIATRIC NEURO-ONCOLOGY PATIENTS

Abstract BACKGROUND Children with brain and spinal cord tumors are at higher risk for sleep disruption. The incidence and characteristics of sleep difficulties in this population is not well understood. Our aim is to use survey and chart review to retrospectively and prospectively evaluate the frequency, severity, and types of sleep difficulties experienced by pediatric patients who have brain and spine tumors. METHODS Pediatric patients with a diagnosis of a brain or spinal cord tumor and their parents were surveyed at three time points during routine visits with their neuro-oncology team. Parents and children completed the following self-reported standardized surveys: The San Diego Pediatric Sleep Survey (Child) and The San Diego Pediatric Sleep Survey (Parent). RESULTS Identified sleep disturbances include difficulty initiating sleep, excessive movement while asleep, increased incidence of nocturnal awakening, and snoring. We identified high rates of behavioral and environmental modifiers of sleep quality including sleeping in a shared bed with another family member and poor sleep hygiene. CONCLUSIONS Identification of sleep disruption and factors contributing to sleep difficulties in this high risk population will encourage proactive screening and recognition of these issues in future patients. Next steps include implementation of interventions such as referral to appropriate specialists, sleep hygiene modification, and parent/patient education. Early intervention may lead to overall improvement in quality of life and health, including increased academic success and job productivity in children and their caregivers.

Situation actuelle de l'évaluation de l'anglais comme langue étrangère en Colombie

This article presents the current status of bibliographical production of the research in the field of assessment of English as a foreign language in Colombia. A collection and analysis of the main Colombian academic production related to the principles, definitions, and criteria of EFL assessment was conducted in order to identify the most relevant topics. Following an analysis of the data, four main areas were identified as the most relevant for research purposes: teachers’ assessment literacy, assessment of language skills, alternative assessment, and standardized testing. The four areas of agreement identified in this study are united by a common concern: the necessity for teachers to have access to robust and continuous professional development programs that encompass not only theoretical foundations and literacies about assessment, but also practical tools and instruments that can be utilized in any EFL context.