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The design and delivery of work-based degree programmes: challenges and solutions
No full textThe design and delivery of work-based degree programmes – also known as degree-level apprenticeships – presents a number of unique challenges. With students spending the majority of their time in the workplace, educators must consider how to align taught material with apprentices’ workplace experience, and ensure that the work being undertaken by apprentices is both relevant and appropriately challenging. Approaches to assessment must be adapted to take account of apprentices’ workplace activities, and parity of assessment across multiple employers must also be ensured. Furthermore, with apprentices spending less time on campus than typical students do, there are implications for how teaching staff offer academic and pastoral support on a work-based programme. Drawing on a combination of existing literature and new interviews with educators involved in the delivery of apprenticeships, this chapter aims to illuminate such challenges and offer practical solutions based on established best practice
The Iraq War and the procedural mechanics of policy failure: complex decision-making and the intersection between bounded rationality and path dependence
No full textThe post-war failure in Iraq (2003) has elicited a plethora of accounts that describe the unfolding of events, but most fail to do so within an empirical explanatory framework. Equally, many accounts have focused on infield policy and implementation failures in the post-war period rather on the pre-war process of decision-making. This research addresses both of these limitations. It does so by locating a particular aspect of the Iraq failure within the procedural mechanics of complex decision-making that occurred during the planning phase 2002-3) and by incorporating aspects of path dependence into the mechanics of how boundedly rational actors make decisions in complex task environments. Rather than the failure in general, this research focuses on a particular aspect of policy failure, the construction of post-war planning that was predicated on a number of flawed assumptions. The analytical puzzle the research seeks to unpack is how these faulty assumptions were able to embed themselves as to ascend to the point of being the basis of post-war policy given the availability of information that contested their basis. Building on Herbert Simon’s emphasis on the procedural (rather than substantive) dimension of rational decision-making, this research adds path dependence as an explanatory framework for better understanding how the salience of information is assessed in bounded, complex decision-making environments. This temporal dimension of path dependence reflects that time-primed information often appears more salient to actors when adopting weak heuristic procedural mechanics of decision-making. The research establishes that path dependence provides a useful and pre-existing framework for explaining these processes. Intersecting these two literatures helps add explanatory power to the processes of policy failures by assessing how complex decisions are made and too often made badly. Policy failures such as the Iraq War are strongly reflective of a nexus between bounded rationality and path dependence
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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