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One month ago we gave you a sneak preview on our upcoming reference style to use with Papers, a Mac-alternative for EndNote. Now we made this style available for download at our Author Instructions page.
It has also been validated and uploaded to GitHub, according to the suggestion of our reader Rintze Zelle.
Android users, we have not forgotten you! Our SNI Mobile app is running on iPhone, iPad and Android smartphones, but not on Android tablets…. yet.
Take a look at these screenshots…. we are working on it! Click the image for a full size version.
The menu available on Android OS 3.0
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Pretty neat… There is no release date planned at the moment, but we’ll keep you posted on the progress!
While you have been reading our previous post on the work we are currently doing on videos, we have upgraded our Vimeo Plus account to Vimeo Pro. This gives us now the opportunity to combine the flexibility of JW Player with streaming media, which -in turn- allows the large files we are using to be displayed smoothly without waiting. Simply said: you’ll like it.
Here is an example:
Rather neat, right?
Pieter Kubben
IT editor Surgical Neurology International
Soon you’ll see a lot more of videos on Surgical Neurology International. For that reason we are currently exploring better ways of displaying the videos. This post is about JW Player, and below you see an embedded video that is displayed using the JW Player WordPress plugin. The video fragment is taken from the “How I Do It: Carotid Endarterectomy” video by Dr Atos Alves de Sousa from Brazil.
In this case the video file is loaded directly from our server, which only works for small files. In reality, most neurosurgical videos have a large filesize and for that reason a technique called “streaming” is used. This is also done on our Vimeo channel, where our videos are hosted.
The next step will be to combine these two: the JW Player should display the streaming media from our Vimeo channel. This gives us all the advantages of the (highly flexible) JW Player while keeping all the advantages that Vimeo has offered us so far.
We’ll keep you posted!
Pieter Kubben
IT editor Surgical Neurology International
Good news for those who are using Papers instead of EndNote for their scientific bibliography and (since the latest version) also as citation manager. We already have an EndNote style for SNI which can be downloaded in the Author Instructions. Now we are working and testing an SNI style for Papers.
In my personal experience (nothing to disclose!) it is a wonderful Mac-application that really facilitaties handling your bibliography and now also citations.
To read more about the upcoming style and a reference to the underlying Citation Style Language, you can continue reading this post at DigitalNeurosurgeon.com. You can also download the beta version of the corresponding CSL file for testing purposes.
Pieter Kubben
IT editor Surgical Neurology International
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Stamates: LeWitt et al. completed the first multi-center, double-blind randomized trial in gene therapy insertion for advanced Parkinson’s disease to demonstrate any therapeutic effect. Gene transfer of glutamic acid decarboxylase and subsequent GABA production in the subthalamic nucleus (STN) was proposed by the authors as superior treatment to DBS and subthalamotomy when medication fails to control PD symptoms. The authors performed a gene therapy trial under rigorous experimental standards, whereas most such studies are open-label. The relative standardization of stereotactic frame placement and microelectrode recording allowed each center to uniformly infuse the treatment vector (Adeno-Associated Virus – AAV) into each subject’s bilateral subthalamic nuclei. Controls only received partial thickness burr holes and the injection was simulated but did not take place.
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Chapter 4 out of 5: posterior fossa mass lesions! After implementing the Brain Trauma Foundation surgical guidelines on epidural hematoma, acute subdural hematoma, and traumatic parenchymal lesions, now it is time for posterior fossa mass lesions. As usual, I take my “three-step-approach”:
Step 1: the original text-version of the guideline’s recommendations
Step 2: create a flowchart
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Step 3: convert into an app!
More screenshots are available from DigitalNeurosurgeon.com
Pieter Kubben
Information Technology editor
Surgical Neurology International