Distant Reader - keyword-ras-cord

Introduction

This is a Distant Reader "study carrel", a set of structured data intended to help the student, researcher, or scholar use & understand a corpus.

This study carrel was created on 2021-05-25 by Eric Morgan <emorgan@nd.edu>. The carrel was created using the Distant Reader cord process, and the input was the result of a query applied to a local mirror of CORD, a data set of scholarly articles on the topic of COVID-19. The actual query was: keywords:ras. The results of this query were saved in a cache and transformed into a set of plain text files. All of the analysis -- "reading" -- has been done against these plain text files. For example, a short narrative report has been created. This Web page is a more verbose version of that report.

All study carrels are self-contained -- no Internet connection is necessary to use them. Download this carrel for offline reading. The carrel is made up of many subdirectories and data files. The manifest describes each one in greater detail.

Size

There are 33 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 198,971 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 6,029 words long. If you dig deeper, then you might want to save yourself some time by reading a shorter item. On the other hand, if your desire is for more detail, then you might consider reading a longer item. The following charts illustrate the overall size of the carrel.

Readability

On a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 is very difficult and 100 is very easy, the documents have an average readability score of 44. Consequently, if you want to read something more simplistic, then consider a document with a higher score. If you want something more specialized, then consider something with a lower score. The following charts illustrate the overall readability of the carrel.

Word Frequencies

By merely counting & tabulating the frequency of individual words or phrases, you can begin to get an understanding of the carrel's "aboutness". Excluding "stop words", some of the more frequent words include:

ace, angiotensin, ras, ang, ii, receptor, covid, patients, sars, renin, cells, cov, enzyme, expression, system, disease, protein, also, may, converting, effects, role, cell, lung, induced, human, studies, hypertension, inhibitors, activation, activity, increased, mice, coronavirus, injury, renal, associated, i, clinical, type, blood, vascular, severe, levels, tissue, study, risk, infection, cardiovascular, podocyte

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are Review article: the pathophysiological roles of the renin–angiotensin system in the gastrointestinal tract, Targeting Neprilysin (NEP) pathways: A potential new hope to defeat COVID-19 ghost, and Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2: SARS-CoV-2 Receptor and Regulator of the Renin-Angiotensin System: Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Discovery of ACE2.

The most frequent two-word phrases (bigrams) include:

ang ii, angiotensin ii, converting enzyme, angiotensin system, blood pressure, acute respiratory, ace inhibitors, smooth muscle, type receptor, lung injury, ang i, ii type, angiotensin converting, respiratory syndrome, severe acute, ii receptor, growth factor, cardiovascular disease, heart failure, receptor blockers, coronavirus disease, amino acid, oxidative stress, ace expression, mas receptor, angiotensin receptor, angiotensin i, ace activity, epithelial cells, brain ras, novel coronavirus, spike protein, severe critical, diabetic nephropathy, protein kinase, gut microbiota, podocyte injury, ace gene, plasma membrane, renin receptor, endothelial cells, vascular smooth, acei arb, ras inhibitors, respiratory distress, muscle cells, amino acids, enzyme inhibitors, distress syndrome, ace ang

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are Review article: the pathophysiological roles of the renin–angiotensin system in the gastrointestinal tract Renin‐angiotensin system revisited, and Targeting Neprilysin (NEP) pathways: A potential new hope to defeat COVID-19 ghost.

While often deemed superficial or sophomoric, rudimentary frequencies and their associated "word clouds" can be quite insightful:

Keywords

Sets of keywords -- statistically significant words -- can be enumerated by comparing the relative frequency of words with the number of times the words appear in an entire corpus. Some of the most statistically significant keywords in the carrel include:

ras, ang, ace2, sars, covid-19, angiotensin, ace, cov-2, ace-2, vsmc, sex, senescence, sasp, renin, receptor, prr, protein, podocyte, pdr3, patient, orx, nep, kinase, insulin, injury, hxt11, golgi, gbm, drug, cell, bone, at2, at1, arb, ang-(1, aii, activation, acei, ace1, 61l

And now word clouds really begin to shine:

Topic Modeling

Topic modeling is another popular approach to connoting the aboutness of a corpus. If the study carrel could be summed up in a single word, then that word might be angiotensin, and The Renin-Angiotensin System in the Central Nervous System and Its Role in Blood Pressure Regulation is most about that word.

If the study carrel could be summed up in three words ("topics") then those words and their significantly associated titles include:

If the study carrel could be summed up in five topics, and each topic were each denoted with three words, then those topics and their most significantly associated files would be:

angiotensin, ace2, ras - Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2: SARS-CoV-2 Receptor and Regulator of the Renin-Angiotensin System: Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Discovery of ACE2
covid, patients, studies - COVID-19 and Individual Genetic Susceptibility/Receptivity: Role of ACE1/ACE2 Genes, Immunity, Inflammation and Coagulation. Might the Double X-Chromosome in Females Be Protective against SARS-CoV-2 Compared to the Single X-Chromosome in Males?
sars, cov, ace2 - Electrolyte Disturbances in SARS-CoV-2 Infection
angiotensin, ang, ii - The Renin-Angiotensin System in the Central Nervous System and Its Role in Blood Pressure Regulation
podocyte, podocytes, glomerular - Role of Podocyte Injury in Glomerulosclerosis

Moreover, the totality of the study carrel's aboutness, can be visualized with the following pie chart:

Noun & Verbs

Through an analysis of your study carrel's parts-of-speech, you are able to answer question beyonds aboutness. For example, a list of the most frequent nouns helps you answer what questions; "What is discussed in this collection?":

angiotensin, receptor, patients, cells, renin, expression, enzyme, system, disease, protein, effects, role, cell, studies, lung, hypertension, activity, mice, inhibitors, injury, activation, ace, levels, blood, tissue, coronavirus, risk, infection, receptors, type, study, gene, brain, inflammation, treatment, virus, function, pressure, proteins, membrane, kidney, diabetes, heart, effect, use, rats, mortality, fibrosis, pathway, evidence

An enumeration of the verbs helps you learn what actions take place in a text or what the things in the text do. Very frequently, the most common lemmatized verbs are "be", "have", and "do"; the more interesting verbs usually occur further down the list of frequencies:

increased, induced, converts, shown, mediated, associated, included, reduce, used, bound, activate, suggested, regulated, leading, reported, expressed, inhibiting, causes, signaling, compared, related, demonstrated, promotes, results, involving, decreased, plays, found, providing, contributes, targets, identified, requires, circulating, prevented, known, indicating, stimulates, produced, developed, attenuates, affects, enhances, based, act, treat, infects, observed, generated, following

Proper Nouns

An extraction of proper nouns helps you determine the names of people and places in your study carrel.

ACE2, RAS, II, Ang, SARS, COVID-19, CoV-2, ACE, Angiotensin, podocyte, ras, CoV, Fig, ACE-2, AngII, AT, ANG, Ang-(1, ARB, I, C, China, DN, Mas, ACEI, NEP, ARDS, angiotensinogen, Kinase, AT1, podocytes, AT1R, losartan, Wuhan, TGF, III, ROS, mRNA, Protein, TMPRSS2, Receptor, IV, Coronavirus, angiotensin, K, CVD, AGT, 61L, AII, RNA

An analysis of personal pronouns enables you to answer at least two questions: 1) "What, if any, is the overall gender of my study carrel?", and 2) "To what degree are the texts in my study carrel self-centered versus inclusive?"

it, its, we, their, i, our, they, them, his, us, you, itself, themselves, one, your, he, pdr1::hxt9, endothelin-1, atp6ap2, phiscada, ours, my, mg, gln37?ile

Below are words cloud of your study carrel's proper & personal pronouns.

Adjectives & Verbs

Learning about a corpus's adjectives and adverbs helps you answer how questions: "How are things described and how are things done?" An analysis of adjectives and adverbs also points to a corpus's overall sentiment. "In general, is my study carrel positive or negative?"

human, renal, severe, vascular, clinical, cardiovascular, acute, inflammatory, high, respiratory, viral, covid-19, cardiac, diabetic, pulmonary, endothelial, anti, therapeutic, novel, important, higher, specific, critical, hypertensive, new, glomerular, potential, immune, non, significant, cellular, local, several, active, functional, many, key, dependent, protective, different, chronic, normal, early, myocardial, low, smooth, experimental, oxidative, epithelial, small

also, however, well, significantly, therefore, recently, moreover, furthermore, now, highly, even, together, potentially, particularly, thereby, interestingly, previously, respectively, directly, mainly, still, yet, first, specifically, rather, often, additionally, spontaneously, finally, completely, indeed, subsequently, similarly, less, especially, effectively, almost, relatively, primarily, generally, currently, widely, strongly, rapidly, likely, importantly, far, exclusively, predominantly, possibly

Next steps

There is much more to a study carrel than the things outlined above. Use this page's menubar to navigate and explore in more detail. There you will find additional features & functions including: ngrams, parts-of-speech, grammars, named entities, topic modeling, a simple search interface, etc.

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