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Migration, ethnicity and psychosis: A mixed-methods exploration of psychosis risk and experience in ethnic minority migrant populations
No full textEpidemiological research has provided key insight into the association between migration and psychosis risk with evidence suggesting that some ethnic minority groups may be at higher risk of psychosis than others. Research has shown Black people are at significantly higher risk of psychosis than other groups however evidence of risk in other groups is less clear. It is also unclear whether specific migrant characteristics might influence the risk of psychosis. Yet, despite a vast effort at attempting to understand this increased risk, quantitative methods have been limited in the exploration of specific risk factors in ethnic minority groups due to limited sample sizes in a rare outcome like psychosis. Using a mixed methods approach and lived experience involvement, this thesis aimed to understand risk of psychosis in ethnic minority groups in different ages of migration and what the experiences of migrants with psychosis from different ethnic groups are. Study One consisted of an epidemiological case-control sample of 937 cases and 1,195 controls from the EUropean network of national schizophrenia networks studying Gene-Environment Interactions [EU-GEI] study to explore how migrating at different ages affected later risk of psychosis and whether this differed across ethnic groups. After adjusting for all confounders including ethnicity, only migration during adolescence remained associated with psychosis (OR 1.94, 95%CI: 1.11–3.36). In stratified analyses, migration during adolescence was associated with increased odds of psychosis in Black (OR: 6.52, 95%CI: 3.00–14.20) and North African (OR: 16.43, 95%CI: 1.88–143.51) groups. Adolescent migrants were at highest risk of psychosis compared to the White non-migrant group. This was significantly higher in Black and North African migrants. Study Two was a qualitative systematic review to synthesise data from qualitative literature on migrants who experience psychosis. A total of eight records were included in the synthesis, highlighting limited literature of migrants’ experiences and their perceptions of psychosis. Four synthesised themes were identified as encompassing the experiences of migrants with psychosis in the current literature: Theme 1) Systemic and structural barriers create significant difficulties to daily life, Theme 2) Psychosis experience, treatment and recovery has an impact on daily life, Theme 3) Social relationships can be facilitators and barriers to recovery, Theme 4) Hope for the future and having faith and religion are important to migrants’ psychosis recovery. A gap in exploring experiences in specific ethnic groups was identified. Study Three was a qualitative exploration of Pakistani migrants’ first experiences of psychosis using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Six participants were interviewed, and six themes were identified reflecting the journey of how migrants made sense of their psychosis journey in relation to themselves and other people. This included the lead up to first experiences of psychosis which consisted of three themes: Theme 1) Breakdown of significant close relationships and community isolation evokes emotional turmoil, Theme 2) First experiences of psychosis: detachment from self, lack of control and disconnected relationships and Theme 3) Navigating social stigma: struggling with disclosure, ownership of experience and fear of shame. The following three themes represented the management and adaptation to life with psychosis: Theme 4) Living with psychosis: Developing acceptance and reconnection with self and surroundings, Theme 5) Navigating social world: Negotiating fractured family relationships and finding solace in shared experiences and Theme 6) Recentring faith: Reconnection and reclaiming practice enables sense of strength and routine. This thesis highlights the importance in utilising different methods to explore characteristics, specifically ethnicity, to understand psychosis risk and experience in migrant groups. Further qualitative exploration in other ethnic groups will provide further insight into whether and how psychosis is differentially experienced in different group
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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