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Managing Ethics When Working with Young People and Children
No full textAll research has the potential to affect people, ethnographers delve into the life of the every day of their participants, they walk their walk, talk their talk and strive for valid, in-depth contextualised data, gathered over a longitudinal and often intimate basis. Ethnography is explorative and inductive. It is messy, unpredictable and complex. Ethnography conducted with young people and children adds to the intricacy of managing ethically sound research practice within and beyond the field. In recent years, ethnographies with children, young people and families have become increasingly prominent, yet few scholars have written about conducting ethnographic research with children and young people (Albon & Barley, 2021; Levey, 2009; Mayeza, 2017). The ethnographer that works with children and young people needs to be aware that the power relationship between adults and children operates in complex and sometimes surprising ways and so needs to be ethically aware, ethically reactive and be prepared to be ethically challenged
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
Fighting the Choke: The Impact of Mixed Martial Arts on Homelessness Recovery
Full text linkHomelessness is a growing issue in the UK, with those affected facing a range of challenges that exacerbate their marginalisation in society. Addiction, poor mental and physical health, and social isolation are examples of the difficulties they encounter. The need for targeted interventions to positively impact the lives of those experiencing homelessness, or those at risk, is urgent. Sport and exercise offer a promising solution; their effectiveness in empowering marginalised groups and cultivating community is well documented. This research in partnership with Mind Body Connect (MBC), a Sheffield-based charity that empowers marginalised individuals through physical activity, and several homelessness services, explores the use of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) as an exercise intervention for homeless individuals. MMA, a range of combat sports, has the potential to enhance health and well-being, though its application to homelessness has not been previously documented. The study aimed to 1) implement tailored, sustainable MMA classes, adding them as an activity to MBC’s existing repertoire; 2) measure and explore the impacts of weekly structured MMA classes on the Recovery Capital (RC) of homeless individuals, or those at risk of homelessness, RC best summarised as the resources and capacities that enable growth and human flourishing; 3) develop practical recommendations for future exercise interventions targeting vulnerable adults. The Revised Recovery Capital Model (RRCM) accounts for physicality and allows the potential benefits of exercise on recovery to be articulated. This research marks the second application of the RRCM outside of interventions tackling addiction and the first in the context of homelessness. Eighteen months of MMA classes were made available to service users of local agencies that support homeless individuals. Further funding resulted in MMA classes continuing beyond this period. As of September 2024, MMA classes have been active for 35 months. These sessions took place each Wednesday for one hour and were run by a qualified MMA coach in a fully equipped MMA studio. Classes included striking (Muay Thai), wrestling, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (submission ground fighting). Data was collected over 28 months using an applied ethnographic approach utilising mixed methods. Qualitative data was gathered through observations before, after, and during training sessions and follow-up interviews. The BARC survey was used to objectively measure RC throughout the training window. Twenty participants took part in the study. Thematic analysis revealed decreases in RC before attending MMA classes due to factors such as poverty, violence, trauma, instability, mental health and addiction. However, participants reported improvements in confidence, trust, fitness, body image, social connection, self-efficacy, and mental well-being through their engagement with MMA. Quantitative analysis also showed an increase in RC through MMA training. Combined, results show that MMA training boosted RC, fitness, and transformed participants’ habitus, marking a significant contribution to the field of recovery interventions. This research demonstrates the application of the RRCM to homelessness and offers recommendations for effective exercise recovery interventions. The dynamic nature of the study yielded additional benefits for participants and MBC, including, paid employment and qualifications for participants, and funding for the organisation. MMA classes became a permanent fixture in MBC’s repertoire at the study’s conclusion. Recommendations from the research advocate for increased emphasis on empowering homeless individuals to engage in physical activity. Additionally, it suggests further research and practice in using MMA as a means of supporting and rehabilitating marginalised groups
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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