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JointZone: An Adaptive Web-based Learning Application
No full textThis report presents the work involved in developing an adaptive website, JointZone that personalises student learning on the web. The work combined user modeling, domain modeling and adaptive hypermedia techniques to deliver a personalised web-based learning environment. The idea of keyword indexing and the site layout structure was used to model the domain giving a conceptual and structural representation of the content. The student model involves the novel idea of using effective reading speed to better gauge if a student has read a page. The project applied the combination of adaptive link hiding and link annotation on a fully functional website to present an adaptive web-based learning environment
Making Web-based Learning Adaptive
No full textThis work stems from a project funded by the Arthritis Research Campaign
(ARC) to develop a web site, JointZoneã, for the study of Rheumatology for both
undergraduate medical students and practicing doctors. The educational application
incorporates both declarative and procedural knowledge, providing students with a
chance to acquire knowledge on rheumatic disorders as well as develop clinical reasoning
skills through a series of graded case studies. In order to enhance learning and reduce
cognitive overload, which can be associated with hypermedia environments, adaptive
hypermedia techniques (Brusilovsky 2001) have been integrated into the core of a web-based
learning environment. This paper discusses the adaptive features employed and the
pedagogical rationale involved in developing the web site
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
The personal impact of lower levels of health literacy on living with a musculoskeletal disease: a qualitative interview study
No full textIntroduction: Health literacy includes the cognitive and social skills which determine the motivation and ability of individuals to access, understand and use information to promote good health. People with lower health literacy do less well in the NHS and are less likely to adopt health self-management strategies than people with higher levels of health literacy. There is no published research exploring the impact that lower health literacy levels have on individuals managing the consequences of musculoskeletal (MSK) disease. This study explored the impact of lower health literacy levels for people living with a MSK disease Methods: Key contacts identified potential participants from Rheumatology clinics, GP surgeries, Colleges and community groups. Participants over 18 years, with a MSK disease and either thought to have lower health literacy or self-identifying as having lower health literacy were included. Participants completed a Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine (REALM) and demographic questionnaire. Semi-structured interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed and analysed thematically. Findings: Nine women and nine men aged 29-82 years participated. This group were predominantly white British, and most completed high school education. Ten participants had a lower level of literacy (i.e. scored < 6 on REALM). Four themes emerged; 1) Experiencing low health literacy as a service user; capturing the range of service users’ responses to the challenge of lower health literacy, ranging from ‘hiding’ to open disclosure 2) The impact on living and working; where people revealed a range of understanding about their condition and frequently recounted being told by health professionals nothing could be done for their MSK pain. 3) Engaging with MSK education; where participants identified family, friends and neighbours as the most useful and frequent information resources. 4) Strategies for self management; here people identified “going over words” and using practical help. In keeping with participants’ recollections of hearing that ‘nothing could be done’ about their condition, they generally seemed unaware of what self-management was, or how it could assist them.Discussion: People with lower levels of health literacy and MSK disease manage complex social and co-morbid medical conditions. Information provided by health professionals is not always useful and many relied on their social networks for support. People recalled that often they had been told that there was nothing that could help their pain or arthritis; it couldn't be cured. This impacted negatively on the incentive for people with lower health literacy to recognise and engage with self-management approaches. To better support people with lower health literacy and MSK conditions to engage with self-management strategies, all agencies need to emphasise the potential benefits and use easily accessible clear messages to communicate these. <br/
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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