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Tavoitteet, menetelmät ja aineisto
Get PDFOsa 1. Julkaisussa: Aromaa A, Heliövaara M, Impivaara O, Knekt P, Maatela J, toim. Mini-Suomi-terveystutkimuksen toteutusTutkimuksen tehtävänä oli tuottaa monipuolinen kuva suomalaisten terveydestä ja terveystarpeista ja kehittää menetelmiä niiden seurantaa varten. Suomen 30 vuotta täyttänyttä väestöä edustanut 8 000 henkilön otos tutkittiin 40 tutkimusalueella. Aluksi kotona tehtyyn terveyshaastatteluun osallistui 7 703 henkilöä (96 %), autoklinikan terveystarkastuksen perusvaiheeseen 7 217 (90 %), sen kliiniseen vaiheeseen 5 819 ja syventävään tutkimukseen Kansaneläkelaitoksen kuntoutustutkimuskeskuksessa 991 henkilöä. Tutkittiin pitkäaikaista sairastavuutta, verenkierto-, hengityselin- sekä tuki- ja liikuntaelinsairauksia, mielenterveyden häiriöitä, hammassairauksia, sairauksien vaaratekijöitä, hoidontarvetta ja sen tyydyttymistä sekä työ- ja toimintakykyä ja niiden vajavuuksia. Menetelmät olivat kyselyjä, haastatteluja, fysikaalisia mittauksia, biokemiallisia määrityksiä, koesuorituksia, haastattelijoiden arvioita sekä vakiomuotoinen kliininen tutkimus
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
Is the report of widespread body pain associated with long-term increased mortality? Data from the Mini-Finland health survey
No full textObjective. To determine whether an observation in a UK study, that persons with chronic widespread pain are at long-term increased risk of cancer mortality, can be replicated in a different setting. Methods. Subjects were participants aged ≥30 yrs in the Mini-Finland Health Survey conducted between 1979 and 1980. Information collected included prevalent pains at different joints throughout the body, demographic, anthropometric, lifestyle and occupational factors. During follow-up, until 1994, information on vital status and cause of death was obtained. Results. 7182 persons participated (89.8%). The prevalence of widespread body pain (pain at four or more sites) was 20% in females and 12% in males, and during follow-up there were a total of 1647 deaths. The risk of death was not elevated amongst those with widespread pain [relative risk (RR): 0.86; 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.74-1.00], and in particular, those with widespread pain were at a slightly lower risk of several disease-specific causes of death and cancer death (RR: 0.64; 95% CI: 0.46-0.91). Conclusions. This study of multiple pains has not confirmed a previous observation of an association between the reporting of widespread pain and subsequent increased risk of cancer death. Differences in the definitions used or, more probably, the population studied, in particular, a larger rural population with more multiple pains related to physical activity may account for the differences. © The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology. All rights reserved
Verenkiertoelinten ja hengityselinten sairauksien tutkimusmenetelmät
No full textOsa 2. Julkaisussa: Aromaa A, Heliövaara M, Impivaara O, Knekt P, Maatela J, toim. Mini-Suomi-terveystutkimuksen toteutusMini-Suomi-tutkimuksen osana toteutettiin verenkiertoelinten ja hengityselinten sairauksien tutkimus, joka kohdistui maan 30 vuotta täyttänyttä väestöä edustavaan 8 000 henkilön otokseen. Tehtiin terveyshaastattelu ja terveystarkastus. Tutkittiin verenkiertoelinten ja hengityselinten tautien esiintyvyyttä, niiden aiheuttaman hoidon ja kuntoutuksen tarvetta ja sen tyydyttymistä, selvitettiin näiden tautien vaaratekijät, oireet ja niihin viittaavat löydökset sekä arvioitiin niiden merkitys työ- ja toimintakyvyn rajoittajina. Menetelmät olivat kyselyitä, haastatteluja, fysikaalisia mittauksia ja biokemiallisia määrityksiä sekä toisessa vaiheessa tehty vakiomuotoinen kliininen tutkimus. Kenttätutkimuksen jälkeen osalle tutkituista tehtiin perusteellinen kliininen tutkimus Kuntoutustutkimuskeskuksessa
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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