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Dyslexia in Chinese: Evidence from Putonghua speakers
No full textWe know little about disorders of written language processing among Chinese speakers. There is however an increasing understanding of the cognitive processes and neurological bases of oral reading and writing to dictation among Chinese speakers. This knowledge can now be applied to improve our understanding of developmental disorders of reading and writing in Chinese, which we now believe is far more prevalent than previously assumed. We will present data from a study of the prevalence of dyslexia in Beijing and we will discuss how cognitive models of reading and writing can be applied to the assessment and remediation of dyslexia in Chinese
Anomia without Dyslexia in Chinese
No full textIt is often assumed that oral reading of Chinese script proceeds from print to phonological output via semantic representations (e.g. Wang WS-Y. The Chinese language. Scientific American 1973; 228: 50-60). However, it is possible (at least in principle) that Chinese characters can be read aloud without access to the mappings between semantic representations and phonological output that are presumed to underlie normal spoken word production. We report the confrontation naming and oral reading performance of a Chinese anemic patient, YQS, whose word comprehension, word repetition and oral reading skills are intact. When her retrieval of names from pictures is compared with her retrieval of the same names from print, there is a highly significant advantage of oral reading over picture naming (P < 0.0001). Indeed, her oral reading of hundreds of Chinese characters is flawless. We argue that the data from YQS show that oral reading in Chinese does not require access to the mappings between semantic representations and phonological output, but instead can proceed via a non-semantic reading pathway that maps orthographic units, such as radicals and characters, directly onto phonological output
A case study of Chinese developmental dyslexia - a neuropsychological approach
No full textA typical Chinese dyslexic case is analyzed using cognitive neuropsychological approach. The developmental history of her reading symptoms is traced and neuropsychological experiments are conducted. Her hemispheric abnormalities are revealed through examinations which show special features of lateralisation. There is a big difference between her verbal IQ and performing IQ and this could have some significance to account for her low scores in reading tasks. The case also shows differences between visual-spatial memory and character memory which are in line with the patterns of visual and auditory information processes. Moreover, a comparison is made between reading Ping-Yin and Chinese characters
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
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