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Becoming an Open Author! : A reference for writing and self-publishing an open textbook
Full text linkThis Becoming an Open Author Guide is a support resource is designed to help you become an open author.
Open Textbooks and Open educational resources (OER) are defined as teaching, learning, and research resources that, through permissions granted by the copyright holder, allow others to use, distribute, keep, or make changes to them. We consider this publication as a type of OER that trains faculty, staff, and students how to build, customize, and use open textbooks.
This guide is adapted from the BCcampus Open Education Self- Publishing Guide by Lauri M. Aesoph is used under a CC BY 4.0 licence. Aesoph, L.M. (2018). Self-Publishing Guide. Victoria, BC: BCcampus. Retrieved from https://opentextbc.ca/ selfpublishguide
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Examining the effect of "hands-on" experiences of volunteers in a physical activity program for children with disabilities
Full text linkThis project’s first aim is to evaluate the effectiveness of the IMPACT program on undergraduate volunteers’ acceptance and attitude towards working with children with disabilities. The second aim is identifying potential factors effecting the volunteers’ acceptance and attitude towards working with children with disabilities. The IMPACT program serves both as a community-based physical activity program for youth with special needs and as a service learning opportunity for many students at Oregon State University. The results will inform our program practice as well as provide generalizable knowledge to help design better “hands-on” service learning experiences
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Changes in acceptance of diversity through volunteering with youth with disabilities
Full text linkBackground/Purpose: A variety of models have been proposed to understand individuals with disabilities. Although it is important to consider the perspective of disability each model presents, the social model has gained considerable attention. This model explains disability as limitations and restrictions of society and the environment. A subset of the social model is the minority group model, which focuses on the similarities of racial minority groups and people with disability. To decrease the negative experiences of individuals with disabilities, more research is needed. The purpose of this study was to identify the potential factors influencing acceptance of diversity, in context of a service-learning program.
Method: Eighty-Nine participants, volunteered in an 8-week physical activity program for youth with disabilities, and completed weekly surveys based on perceptions of their own experience, the behavior of the youth they were paired with, and support from their activity leader. The pre-and post-survey included the Miville-Guzman Universality-Diversity scale to assess acceptance of diversity.
Results: Four multiple regressions were used in this study. The first multiple regression showed the participant’s perceived experience (β =50) and the youth’s behavior (β =-.50) significantly influence acceptance of diversity of contact (R=. 25). The second multiple regression showed own experience (β =. 48) to significantly influence acceptance of relativistic appreciation (R=. 26). The third multiple regression revealed own experience (β =-.56) and of youth’s behavior (β =-.47) significantly influence acceptance of comfort with differences (R=. 30). The fourth multiple regression showed own experience (β =. 62) and of youth’s behavior (β =-.55) significantly influence overall acceptance of diversity (R=. 31).
Conclusion: Service-learning programs that give volunteers opportunities to interact with youth with disabilities, have the potential to influence acceptance of diversity. Thus, it may be important to provide students with opportunities to interact in diverse situations
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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