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A model to evaluate diabetes self-management programmes
No full textSelf-management has emerged as an approach to enhance quality of care for patients suffering from long term conditions, and to control costs of health services. So far, however, the effects of this approach as adopted by the Saudi healthcare system in the early 1990s remain unclear. Although current models define the concept of self-management, they do not provide a systematic development or an explanatory theory of how self management affects the outcomes of care. The objective of this research is to develop a framework applicable to the evaluation of self-management programmes. The evaluation model is built on patient-related intervention. The effectiveness of these interventions is determined by the levels of patient engagement and effective participation. Therefore, studying factors that influence patients‘ adherence to self-management activities is crucial to explain the outcomes of these interventions. We apply this framework to the case of diabetes mellitus, one of the most common chronic conditions in Saudi Arabia, causing huge burdens on patients and healthcare providers.A non-experimental retrospective cross-sectional survey research design has been employed to conduct this research using a self-administered questionnaire. Closed-ended questions were used to measure all study variables related to model construction. One open-ended question was used to investigate barriers to diabetes self-management. A non-probability convenient sample design was used to select diabetes centres participated in this study and a systematic approach for selecting patients in these centres. Research data were collected from five diabetes centres and clinics in the main five regions in Saudi Arabia. Quantitative data were analysed using simple, multiple and logistic regressions, whereas a directed content analysis approach was used to analyse qualitative data.The results of this study revealed that diabetes self-management improves clinical outcomes and reduces utilization of health services. The theoretical approaches underpinning self-management were based on established models from the field of health psychology. By investigating the effect of self-efficacy patients‘ beliefs, and locus of control on self-management, we found that these behavioural theories support the core assumptions of self-management. Self-efficacy was the most significant predictor of self-management followed by patient beliefs. Social support, effective communication between patients and health providers in addition to diabetes knowledge were all important factors to positively influence diabetes self-management. However a new construct, misconception of fatalism from the Islamic point of view, was found to play a negative role in diabetes management. The research model also suggests that diabetes knowledge was influenced by several factors. Education level was the most significant predictor of diabetes knowledge followed by age and diabetes education. It was also found that group education improves diabetes knowledge more than individual education.This model is a valid tool that could be used to evaluate self-management programmes in other chronic diseases. It can be used as a decision making supporting tool; to identify different components of self-management interventions, and to compare outcomes of programmes. It can also be used to group patients into different categories to facilitate providing tailored services suitable for each group. It could assist health providers to plan new interventions or to refine existing ones by allocating efforts and financial resources toward the most influential factors that affect patients‘ adherence to self-management activities.<br/
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
Abdullah b. Übey b. Selâl ve hz. Peygamber’le iliskileri
No full textArastırmamız giris, dört bölüm ve sonuç kısmından olusmustur. Giris bölümünde arastırmanın amacı, önemi ve Yesrib'in tarihi ele alınmıstır. Birinci bölümde Abdullah b. Übey b. Selûl'ün soyu üzerinde durulup, liderlige hazırlanısı incelenmistir. İkinci bölümde Abdullah b. Übey b. Selûl'ün Hz. Peygamber ve ashâbıyla münasebetleri degerlendirilmistir. Üçüncü bölümde Abdullah b. Übey b. Selûl'ün Mekkeli müsriklerle iliskileri, dördüncü bölümde ise adı geçen kisinin Medine'deki Yahudiler'le münasebetleri hakkında bilgi verilmistir. Abdullah b. Übey b.Selûl Hicret'ten önce Yesrib'in degil, sadece buradaki Araplar'ın lideri konumuna gelmistir. Evs ve Hazrec'in kabul ettigi bir kisi olması Yesrib'in lideri oldugu anlamına gelmemektedir. Yahudiler'in İbn Übey'i kendilerinin de lideri olarak gördüklerini gösteren hiçbir olaya rastlanılmamaktadır. İbn Übey'in Hicret'ten sonra Hz. Peygamber'e ve Müslümanlar'a karsı genellikle muhalefette bulundugu ifade edilmistir. Onun kendi siyasî hedeflerini İslâm'dan ayrı degerlendirdigi ve yaptıklarını liderliginin geregi olarak gördügü düsünülebilir. Bir diger tartısma konusu; Abdullah b. Übey b. Selûl'in münâfık mı yoksa muhalif mi oldugudur. Çıkarları geregi bir dinden gözüken ve yine çıkarları geregi aksi sekilde de hareket edebilen bir kisi için 'Münâfık' nitelemesinin kullanıldıgı dikkate alındıgında, Abdullah b. Übey b. Selûl'ün bu tür bir nitelemeye uygun bir davranısta bulundugunu gösteren açık bir delile rastlanılmamıstır. Abdullah b. Übey b. Selûl Hz. Peygamber'e karsı muhalefet etmistir. Buna ragmen Hz. Peygamber engin hosgörüsünden dolayı İbn Übey'in cenaze namazını kıldırmıstır. Mekke müsrikleri Müslüman olmadan önce Abdullah b. Übey b. Selûl'ü Hz. Peygamber'e karsı muhalefet etmeye tesvik ettiler. Mekkeliler, Müslüman olduktan sonra da İbn Übey'le iliskilerini sürdürdüler. Abdullah b. Übey b. Selûl'ün Hz. Peygamber'e karsı muhalefetinin sebeplerinden biri de Mekkeliler'in bu tutumudur. Hicret'ten önce Abdullah b. Übey b. Selûl Kaynukâogulları'yla antlasma yapmıstı. Abdullah b. Übey b. Selûl'ün Müslüman olduktan sonra onlarla dostlugunu devam ettirmesi liderligi baglamında yorumlanabilir. Abdullah b. Übey b. Selûl, Nadîrogulları ve Kureyzâogulları ile bir antlasma yapmamıstı. İbn Übey Hz. Peygamber'e karsı onları desteklemesiyle Müslümanlar'ı karsısına almıstır
L. Massir Q. Abdullah, Bo. Suatu Himpunan Catatan Kuno Daerah ' Bima
No full textChambert-Loir Henri. L. Massir Q. Abdullah, Bo. Suatu Himpunan Catatan Kuno Daerah ' Bima. In: Archipel, volume 28, 1984. pp. 229-230
L. Massir Q. Abdullah, Bo. Suatu Himpunan Catatan Kuno Daerah ' Bima
No full textChambert-Loir Henri. L. Massir Q. Abdullah, Bo. Suatu Himpunan Catatan Kuno Daerah ' Bima. In: Archipel, volume 28, 1984. pp. 229-230
Square Dancing with the Stars to Enhance Dynamic Hirschman Linkages?
No full textIn this Presidential Address, the author takes the reader on a reconnaissance of his life and time as a regional scientist. He points out scenery he found scintillating along the way, hoping that some may pick up the banner and chew on a few of the ideas for a while. He suggests a revisit to Albert O. Hirschman’s notion of key sectors and more empirical analysis related to Marcus Berliant’s and Masahisa Fujita’s notion of knowledge creation and transfer.Presidential Address, San Antonio, Texas, March 29, 2014 (53rd Meetings of the Southern Regional Science Association
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
Abdullah Gül au Caire
No full textLe Ministre des Affaires étrangères turc, Abdullah Gül, s’est rendu au Caire, les 3 et 4 mars derniers, pour participer à une réunion de la Ligue arabe à laquelle il était convié comme représentant d’un Etat frontalier de l’Irak. Le premier jour, Abdullah Gül a rencontré son homologue égyptien, Ali Aboul Gheit, auquel il a fait part de sa volonté de renforcer les liens économiques entre les deux pays, notamment, grâce à l’accord de libre échange qui a été signé récemment entre la Turquie et l..
Hızır Bin Abdullah’ ın kitabü’ l- edvar’ ı ve makamların incelenmesi
No full textIX. yüzyıldan bu yana müziğin nazarî yönü pek çok müzisyenin ilgisini çekmiş, Edvâr adı altında birçok eser yazılmıştır. Notanın kullanılmadığı bir dönemde kaleme alınan bu edvârlar, o dönemin müziği hakkında kaynak teşkil etmeleri bakımından önemlidirler. Bu eserlere edvâr denmesinin sebebi makamların ve usûllerin dâirelerle açıklanmasından dolayıdır. Hızır bin Abdullah, Kitâbü'l-Edvâr'ı XV. yy.'ın ilk yarısında yazmıştır. Eserin yurt içi ve yurt dışında çeşitli kütüphânelerde bulunan nüshalarının mikrofilmleri elde edilerek üzerinde edisyon kritik çalışması yapılmıştır. Hızır bin Abdullah'ın Kitâbü'l-Edvâr'ının incelenmesi sonucu eserin muhteviyâtı bakımından geleneksel edvâr kalıplarının dışına çıktığı tesbit edilmiş, edvârda, astronomi ile ilgili konulara geniş yer verildiği, yıldızlar ve burçlar ile makamlar arasında bağlantılar kurulduğu görülmüştür. Yüzyıllar boyunca Türk mûsikîsinde pek çok makam ve terkib ortaya koyulmuş, bunlardan bazıları unutulmuş, bazıları isim değiştirerek ya da hiçbir değişikliğe uğramadan günümüze ulaşmıştır. Edvârlarda devirler âvâze, şu'be ve terkib adları altında tasnif edilmiş ve bugün bunların tümü makam adı altında toplanmıştır. XV. yy. içinde dahi makam isimlerinde, dizilerinde ve karar seslerinde teorisyenlere göre farklılıklar olduğu dikkat çekicidir. Kitâbü'l-Edvâr'da kayıtlı olan bazı makamların aynı dizi ile günümüze ulaşmayı başardıkları görülür. Hızır bin Abdullah tarafından makamlara âvâzelerin ve âvâzelere makamların eklenmesi sonucu 144 yeni terkib ortaya koyulmuştur. Kitâbü'l-Edvâr'daki makamların aynı yüzyılda yazılmış diğer edvârlar ile karşılaştırılarak incelenmesi sonucu XV. yy. Türk Mûsikîsi'nde kullanılan makamlar hakkında günümüz teorisyenleri ve icracılarına faydalı olabilecek bilgiler edinmiş bulunuyoruz. Daha sonraki yüzyıllarda terkib edilmiş makamların da araştırılması ile Türk Mûsikîsi'nde bestecisi bilinmeyen eserlerin hangi yüzyıllarda bestelenmiş olabileceği konusu gün ışığına çıkarılabilecektir.HIZIR BIN ABDULLAH'S KITABÜ'L-EDVAR and EXAMINATION OF TONALITIES Since the 9th Century, the theoretical aspect of music has attracted the attention of many musicians and many works called Edvar have been written. These Edvars written in times when scores were not yet used are important for being sources about the music of the time. The reason these works were called Edvar was due to the tonality (makam) and rhythms (usul) being explained with cycles. Hızır bin Abdullah wrote Kitabü'l-Edvar in the first half of the 15th Century. The microfilms of the work's copies in Turkey and in foreign countries have been obtained and critic edition researches on it have been carried out. After the examination of Hızır bin Abdullah's Kitabü'l-Edvar, it was understood that the work exceeded the traditional edvar models in terms of content, and was been seen that the edvar contained detailed information on astronomy, and that connections were made between stars, the zodiac and tonality. Many tonalities and integrated tonalities have been established in the Turkish music for centuries. Some of these have been forgotten and some have reached the present day by changing names or without suffering any changes. Cycles in Edvars have been classified under names such as avaze, şu'be and terkib and all of these have been gathered today under the name tonality. It is interesting to see that even in the 15th Century there were differences in the tonality names, scales and a return to the original mode; between theoreticians. It can be seen that some tonalities recorded in Kitabü'l- Edvar have reached the present day with the same scale. By the addition of avazes to tonalities and tonalities to avazes by Hızır bin Abdullah, 144 new integrated tonalities have been created. By examining the tonalities in Kitabü'l-Edvar by comparing them with other edvars written in the same century, we have obtained information on the tonalities used in the 15th Century Turkish Music which may be of use to present theoreticians and performers. By carrying out researches on the tonalities constituted in the following centuries, the determination of the composition date of works with anonymous compositors in Turkish music shall be possible
Letter from unknown writer to Jesse L. Boyce
No full textLetter to Jesse L. Boyce from unknown author (possibly Jack) about the investigation into the powder magazine located in the Grand Canyon. Some personal news is included in the letter such as the writer's marriage to the daughter of C.A. Taylor, former Supervisor of Cochise County
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