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I questionari per la valutazione della customer satisfaction nelle aziende ospedaliere: risultati preliminari
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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
When the sun goes down. What helps or hinders Pasifika professional rugby players to successfully transition to another career pathway when they retire from professional rugby
No full textFull text is available to authenticated members of The University of Auckland only.This research uses the Pasifika male voice to identify what helps or hinders Pasifika professional rugby players’ successful transition from rugby to a new career. Using the Critical Incident Technique (Flanagan, 1954; Airini et al 2011) ten former Pasifika professional rugby players were interviewed about their transition from rugby and how these experiences helped or hindered their success in this new career period. Building upon previous research into career transitions, this thesis provided the opportunity for the voices of PPRP to be heard in ways that have not happened before. The theoretical underpinnings and research practices were explicitly Pasifika. Aspects of male Pasifika identity were identified to make an analytical 'lens' (the 'Tamaloa lens') through which to interpret the data. A professional and respectful relationship between researcher and participant was nurtured with the intention that it would remain 'forever continous' (the 'Teu teu le va methodology'). An Advisory Group made predominantly of Pasfika men with understanding of the professional sports environment and cultures was a constant reference point throughout the research. The participants and Advisory Group recognized the intimate understanding that the researcher himself has of professional rugby and the transition to a new career. These elements in combination resulted in an unusual level of candor and remarkable honesty from the participants. In this way this research may be the first to provide such a rich analysis of contemporary Pasifika voices about the transition from professional rugby to new careers. Promising practices were identified for this context of professional rugby and for Pasifika men within that context. This research has highlighted the importance of relationship between researcher and participant in Pasifika research. Four themes emerged from the data: long-term planning, relationships, living for today, and stakeholders. These themes indicate promising practices with implications for the franchise, aiga, community and the former players. The development of the Tamaloa lens is unique to this research and provides what may be the first intentionally masculine lens for interpreting the experiences of Pasifika men. Common ideas associated with the Tamaloa lens include strength, courage, spontaneity, patience, respect, intelligence and the spirit of the warrior. This research has provided insights from cultural male viewpoints that are rarely available. Finally, this research contributes to an expanded understanding of practices in support of successful career transitions and in relation to the theory and practices of Pasifika research itself
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
University Teaching Reconsidered: Justice, practice,inquiry
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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
sj-docx-1-hpq-10.1177_13591053231218667 – Supplemental material for Birth by emergency caesarean delivery: Perspectives of Wāhine Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-hpq-10.1177_13591053231218667 for Birth by emergency caesarean delivery: Perspectives of Wāhine Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand by Felicia Airini Lawrie, Yvonne Awhina Mitchell, Ashleigh Barrett-Young and Amanda Ellen Clifford in Journal of Health Psychology</p
Introduction
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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
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