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Comment on Backes' "More than Meets the Eye: Fluorescence Photography for Enhanced Analysis of Pictographs"
No full textIn a recent issue, Backes (2004) presents an analysis of two pictographs sites in Kern County, California, using ultraviolet fluorescence photography. Two sites, CA-KER-735 and CA-KER-736, were thoroughly studied. Backes' innovative approach is a useful tool in pictograph site research. It has resulted in the identification of new elements that were previously invisible to the 'naked eye' or impossible to document through conventional photographic means. I applaud Backe's efforts. My comments here are aimed at clarifying several minor yet significant contextual, classificatory, and interpretive matters, rather than in disagreeing with his technical methods or results per se
Perspectivas de transcender na educação no trabalho: tendências da enfermagem latino-americana
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências da Saúde. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem.O objetivo deste estudo está em evidenciar as tendências de educação no trabalho na América Latina as quais estão sendo veiculadas nos periódicos de enfermagem, analisando-as crítica e reflexivamente. Na revisão da literatura utilizaram-se autores de diferentes áreas de atuação, em especial da enfermagem. A construção do referencial filosófico teve como base a Teoria Problematizadora de Paulo Freire e a Práxis de Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez, secundados por outros autores. Metodologicamente este estudo pode ser classificado como qualitativo, exploratório, com pesquisa documental. Para organizar os dados da pesquisa foi construído um software que permitiu o armazenamento de dados como: origem dos artigos publicados; formação, titulação e área de atuação dos autores; as revistas foram catalogadas pela denominação, número volume, ISSN, ano, mês e cidade em que foram publicadas. A pesquisa envolveu 18 periódicos que disponibilizam textos integrais e livres, com a revisão de 299 exemplares, 3310 de resumos e palavras chaves, dos quais foram retirados 70 artigos completos sobre a educação no trabalho de 07 diferentes países latino-americanos. Na contextualização do cenário do estudo evidenciaram-se pontos críticos na enfermagem, tais como: diversidade de formação, insuficiência quantitativa e qualitativa de pessoal, migração de enfermeiras, concentração em grandes centros urbanos. Estratégias de resolução a serem implementadas a médio e longo prazo são preconizadas na Agenda de Saúde para América-OPAS/OMS, associações profissionais e de classe, fundações filantrópicas, entre outras. No tratamento dos dados obtidos construíram-se seis categorias e as subseqüentes estruturas de resposta: as tendências de educação no trabalho, educação no trabalho e níveis de práxis, a educação no processo de trabalho na enfermagem, a educação no trabalho e a relação entre cuidar e educar, a educação no trabalho e a construção do conhecimento e a educação no trabalho na perspectiva do empoderamento dos sujeitos. Evidencia-se a possibilidade de transcendência em países como Brasil, Chile, Colômbia e México, em razão da amplitude das propostas de educação, embasamento em teorias educativas, formação, capacitação e titulação de recursos humanos, a articulação entre docência/serviços e as políticas de saúde. Na Argentina as ações educativas estão mais para a conservação em moldes tecnicistas. Em Cuba, a ênfase na obtenção dos resultados reforçam o tecnicismo com viés ideológico, enquanto que no Paraguai as propostas de educação no trabalho são praticamente incipientes. A construção desta pesquisa mostra que as possibilidades de transcendência estão na aproximação de teoria e prática, estruturação dos serviços, com propostas de educação no trabalho que permitam o empoderamento dos sujeitos. The objective of this study is to show the tendencies of education at work in Latin America which are linked with the Nursing periods, analyzing the critics and reflexive. In the revision of the authors literature different areas of actuation were used, especially nursing. The construction of philosophical references has as a base the Problematical Theory of Paulo Freire and the customs of Adolfo Sanchez Vasquez, supported by other authors. Methodologically this study can be classified as qualitative, exploratory, with documental study. To organize the data of the study a software was constructed that permits the storage of data like: the origin of articles published; formation, title and area of actuation of the authors; the magazines were cataloged by denomination, volume number, ISSN, year, month and the city in which they were published. The study involves 18 periods that permits a availability of integral texts and are free, with the revision of 299 examples, 3310 of abstracts and keywords, out of which 70 complete articles on education at work of 07 different Latin # Americans countries. In the contextualization of study scenario we can see the critical points of nursing, like: the diversity of formation, insufficient quantitative and qualitative of people, migration of nurses, concentration in grand urban centers. The strategy and resolution that are to be implemented in medium and long period are pre agenda in the Health Agenda for America # OPAS / OMS, professionals associations and the class, philanthropic foundations, among others. In the treatment of data obtained six categories are constructed and next structures of reply: the tendency of education at work, education at work and the level of the practice, education in the work process in nursing, education at work is the relation between care and educate, education at work is the construction of knowledge and education at work in the perspective of empowerment of people. As shown the possibility of transcending of countries like Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico, in the light of the amplitude of the education proposal, based on educative theories, formation, capacity and titled of human resources, the articulation between docent/services and the health political. In Argentina the educative actions are more of conservation in technical model. In Cuba, the emphasis in obtaining of results reforces the technical with ideological line while in Paraguai the proposals of education at work are practicalment incipient. The construction of this study shows the possibility of transcendences are in the approximation of theory and practical, construction of services, with proposals of education at work that permits the empowerment of people
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe 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
No full textWe 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
Dr. Edward P. Wimberly, ITC, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Edward P. Wimberly. Dr. Wimberly talks about his book, "No Shame in Wesley's Gospel: A Twenty-First Century Pastoral Gospel". Brad Ost, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
The puzzle of non-participation in continuing training : an empirical study of chronic vs. temporary non-participation
No full text"Although participation in continuing vocational training is often found to be associated with considerable individual benefits, a puzzlingly large number of people still do not take part in training. In order to solve the puzzle we distinguish between temporary and chronic non-participants. Previous studies have shown that training participants and non-participants differ in unobservable characteristics and therefore self-select into training or not. We show that even non-participants cannot be treated as a homogeneous group: there are those who never take part in training (chronic non-participants) and those who are not currently taking part (temporary (non-)participants). Using a unique data set of non-participants commissioned by the German 'Expert Commission on Financing Lifelong Learning' and covering a very large number of individuals not taking part in training, we separate and compare chronic and temporary non-participants. By estimating a sample selection model using maximum likelihood estimation we take potential selection effects into account: temporary (non-)participants may be more motivated or may have different inherent skills than chronic nonparticipants. We find that chronic non-participants would have higher costs than temporary (non-)participants and their short-term benefits associated with their current jobs would be lower. However, in the long run even chronic non-participants would benefit similarly from participation due to improved prospects on the labor market. The results indicate that chronic non-participants either misperceive future developments or suffer from an exceptionally high discount rate, which in turn leads in their view to a negative cost-benefit ratio for training." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en)) Additional Information Kurzfassung (deutsch) Executive summary (English)Weiterbildung, Teilnehmer, Bildungsbeteiligung, Bildungsinvestitionen, Bildungsertrag, Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse, Bildungsökonomie
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