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Generalized Anxiety Disorder Level Among Employees and Students after Conflicts in Duhok City
Full text linkThis study aimed to determine the level of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) among residents in Duhok City, after a series of trauma and conflicts, examine gender differences in GAD levels, and assess variations across different job categories and age groups. A descriptive, analytical cross-sectional design was employed using the DSM-5 Severity Measure for Generalized Anxiety Disorder – Adult. The study utilized simple random sampling to recruit 1,430 participants from various locations in Duhok city. The data were processed through descriptive statistics, one-sample t-test, independent samples t-test, and one-way ANOVA. Results showed a high prevalence of GAD among the population by (24.6% mild, 12.2% moderate, and 3.3% sever), with females experiencing significant higher (52.1%) compared to male by (27.8%). There were also significant variations across occupational groups, and the highest anxiety level was seen amongst the non-governmental employees, followed by government employees and students. Variations by age showed that the anxiety levels were higher amongst the older age group compared to the younger age groups. These results are helpful for planning specially targeted mental health intervention and policy in the region
Psychological Needs and Quantity of Substance Use in Duhok City
Full text linkThis study aimed to examine the psychological needs of substance abusers in Duhok City, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, using a mixed-methods approach to analyze 47 incarcerated individuals in the adult male and female reformatory of Duhok, and also collected official records from 2018 to 2024 related to substance convictions and individuals who visit health sectors with the intention of treatment. The assessment tools contained six psychological domains through semi-structured questionnaires to be analyzed for measuring the psychological needs. Participants reported significantly lower levels of psychological needs than expected (39.543 vs. 41.5, p < 0.05), with self-esteem being significantly affected and competence being less affected. Males reported stronger social bonds than females. Quantitative analysis revealed significant increases in substance-related convictions: adult males increased from 40 (2018) to 494 (2022) and 228 (from Jan to Jul 2024), totaling 1,830 convictions. The number of females who were convicted due to drugs is 138, while juvenile males recorded are 122, among 11–17-year-olds who are trafficking and consuming drugs. Treatment pathways have shown a shift from public to private health care. Azadi Hospital's cases have decreased from 160 (2019) to 90 in 2023 and only 20 (from Jan to Jul 2024), while private clinics treated over 1,000 patients annually. These findings highlight the urgent need for comprehensive psychological interventions that address low self-esteem, gender-specific programs, fill the psychological needs, and improve access to healthcare to address the region's worsening substance abuse crisis
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
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