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Pro-Social Behaviors and Social Media Usage During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Get PDFThesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2023This study will examine the association between sources of social media exposure and adherence to pro-social behavior in the context of the United States (e.g., mask-wearing, attitudes towards vaccination, and uptake of vaccination) through a population-representative sample of the United States over three time periods (i.e. a longitudinal survey collected over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic). The methods for this study consisted of using survey weights and generalized linear models (GLM) to examine willingness to get vaccinated for COVID-19 and mask-wearing practices. Findings provide insight into the potential impact of different social media sources on pro-social behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting the importance of understanding how sources of social media exposure can influence health behaviors
Nationalism and Religious Discourse: Examining The Kurdish-Turkish Conflict
Get PDFThesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2021The limited study of the intersection of nationalism, religion, and ethnicity deserves deeper study in the literature. Existing studies focus mostly on the boundary-making function of religion – the creation of in-group/out-group distinction as a basis of collective identity formation. However, religion can also be used to merge different identities and make group boundaries “fuzzier” which we refer to as boundary-blurring. To answer the question of why and when sharpening ethnic boundaries is preferred to blurring them, we applied Jared Rubin’s “propagation of rule” framework to modern Turkey. We focused on the Kurdish-Turkish conflict and examined the relationship between the Turkish State and Presidency of Religious Affairs – the biggest religious organization in Turkey. We used Structural Topic Modeling to analyze the religious sermons disseminated in Turkey and found out a positive relationship between the intensity of conflict andthe salience of nationalist rhetoric in religious discourse. Furthermore, we showed that religious rhetoric is used to sharpen boundaries when the economic legitimization capacity of the state is low. Contrary, when there is economic prosperity, religious rhetoric is used to blur boundaries. As the involvement of religion in politics through far-right nationalism increases, the insights derived from the Turkish case become even more relevant to the so-called secular states around the world
Randomized Respondent Driven Sampling: A Cellphone Based Approach
Get PDFThesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2024Respondent-Driven Sampling (RDS) is a widely used method for accessing hidden populations when more traditional survey techniques may not be feasible. However, the reliance on non-random peer recruitment introduces substantial bias, particularly in the presence of homophily. This paper introduces Randomized Respondent-Driven Sampling (RRDS), a novel, cellphone-based adaptation that incorporates researcher-controlled randomization into the recruitment process. RRDS preserves the network-based advantages of RDS while mitigating selection bias by decoupling recruitment from respondent preferences. Through simulation on synthetic networks with high homophily and an empirical application among Bangladeshi garment workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, RRDS demonstrates superior performance in sample representativeness, recruitment efficiency, and convergence to population parameters. The empirical study also reveals gendered constraints in referral behavior, underscoring the importance of context-sensitive implementation. RRDS offers a scalable, remote-compatible alternative for sociological research in hard-to-reach populations, or in populations that are not traditionally hard to reach, but become temporarily inaccessible, such as the case of garment workers during the pandemic
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
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