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"Dementia Literacy and Risk of Dementia: Exploratory Study on the Impact of Literacy on Aging and Dementia in the Cognitive Functioning of Community-Dwelling Adults and Older Adults"
No full textDissertação de Mestrado em Neuropsicologia Clínica: Avaliação e Reabilitação apresentada à Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da EducaçãoThe aging of the Portuguese population has been prominent in recent decades. This phenomenon is accompanied by a significant increase in neuro-cognitive diseases, including dementia. Within this context, there arises the issue of the actual knowledge that the Portuguese population possesses regarding dementia, and how neuropsychological functioning and personality contribute to a deeper understanding of profiles of individuals with lower literacy about dementia.This exploratory study aimed to investigate the potential relationship between knowledge about brain health in elderly adults with sociodemographic variables, overall cognitive functioning, and personality. Additionally, it explored to what extent health literacy about brain health, along with these variables, is associated with the risk of dementia.A convenience community sample was recruited through in-person recruitment (N=94). The assessment protocol included cognitive screening instruments, neurocognitive profile measures, and socio-emotional profile measures. To assess participants' knowledge about dementia, the Aging and Dementia Questionnaire (ADQ) was administered.Regarding knowledge about modifiable factors for dementia, significant differences were observed based on age and education. Positive associations were found between knowledge about risk factors, cognitive function, and measures of cognitive reserve. Concerning the risk of developing dementia, individuals with a higher risk of developing dementia exhibited poorer cognitive reserve.Regarding the role of personality in dementia literacy, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness were associated with a better understanding of dementia.Regarding the dementia literacy profile of the evaluated sample, it was generally observed that a stronger knowledge of modifiable risk factors is not associated with knowledge about prevention. This suggests a potential lack of awareness among the population of this study about how to prevent the risk of developing dementia. This represents a knowledge gap about brain health identified by this study, which should prompt a reflection on intervention program strategies for promoting brain health.This exploratory study helped understand that neuropsychological functioning, especially cognitive reserve, influences the level of dementia literacy, as do certain personality traits. This information is of utmost importance for personalizing brain education programs that should be tailored to these protective and risk-related characteristics.O envelhecimento da população portuguesa tem vindo a destacar-se nas últimas décadas. Este é um fenómeno que acompanha o aumento significativo de doenças neuro-cognitivas, onde se insere a demência. Neste âmbito, coloca-se a problemática sobre o conhecimento efetivo que a população portuguesa tem sobre a Demência, e o modo como o funcionamento neuropsicológico e a personalidade contribuem para a compreensão mais aprofundada de perfis de funcionamento de indivíduos que apresentam menor literacia sobre a demência. O presente estudo exploratório teve como objetivo investigar a potencial relação entre o conhecimento sobre a saúde do cérebro em adultos idosos com variáveis sociodemográficas, o funcionamento cognitivo global e a personalidade, explorando ainda em que medida a literacia em saúde do cérebro, em conjunto com estas variáveis, está associada ao risco de demência. Foi recrutada uma amostra na comunidade por conveniência com recrutamento presencial (N= 94). O protocolo de avaliação inclui instrumentos de rastreio cognitivo, de perfil neurocognitivo e de perfil socio-emocional. De forma a avaliar o conhecimento dos participantes em relação à demência, foi aplicado o Questionário sobre Envelhecimentto e Demência (QED).No padrão do conhecimento sobre os fatores modificáveis para a demência, destacam-se diferenças significativas em função da idade e escolaridade. Evidenciam-se associações positivas entre o conhecimento sobre fatores de risco, a função cognitiva e medidas de reserva cognitiva. Relativamente ao risco de desenvolver demência, verifica-se que indivíduos com maior risco de desenvolver demência têm pior reserva cognitiva. Relativamente ao papel da personalidade na literacia sobre a demência, destacam-se os traços extroversão, abertura à experiência, amabilidade e conscienciosidade associados ao bom conhecimento sobre demência. Relativamente ao perfil de literacia sobre a demência da amostra avaliada, de forma geral, verificou-se que um conhecimento mais forte quanto aos fatores de risco o modificáveis não está associado ao conhecimento sobre a prevenção, podendo haver o desconhecimento por parte da população do presente estudo de como prevenir o risco de desenvolver demência. Esta é uma lacuna no conhecimento sobre a saúde do cérebro identificada pelo presente, que deverá promover uma reflexão sobre as estratégias de programas de intervenção para a promoção da saúde do cérebro.Este estudo exploratório permitiu compreender que o funcionamento neuropsicológico, principalmente a reserva cognitiva, influenciam o nível de literacia sobre a demência, bem como alguns traços de personalidade, informação esta de extrema relevância para a personalização de programas de educação sobre o cérebro que se devem adequar a estas características protetoras e de risco
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
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
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
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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