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Training transfer and transfer motivation : the influence of individual, environmental, situational, traning design and affective reaction factors / Muhammad Awais Bhatti.
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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
Rola stylu przywództwa w poprawie wydajności pracy pracowników służby zdrowia
No full textHealth care is considered an important sector in any economy, and the government takes multiple initiatives to improve healthcare and health workers performance. Past research has highlighted that without a suitable leader and appropriate leadership style, health workers may not be able to improve their job performance. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate among different leadership styles, which leadership styles are suitable in the health sector and strongly influence health workers job performance. In this regard, data was collected from 284 health workers working in different government and private hospitals in Saudi Arabia and analyzed using SPSS version 16. Descriptive statistics, correlation and multiple regression analysis techniques were used to test the study hypothesis. Findings of this study suggest that among different leadership styles, transformational and multicultural leadership styles positively influence health workers job performance. The outcomes of this study will be helpful for policymakers and healthcare professionals to focus more on transformational leadership style and multicultural leadership style especially when health workers belong to a diverse culture. There is a limited study exploring appropriate leadership styles to improve health workers job performance in the healthcare sector of Saudi Arabia.Opieka zdrowotna jest uważana za ważny sektor w każdej gospodarce, a rząd podejmuje liczne inicjatywy w celu poprawy wydajności opieki zdrowotnej i pracowników służby zdrowia. Wcześniejsze badania wykazały, że bez odpowiedniego lidera i odpowiedniego stylu przywództwa pracownicy służby zdrowia mogą nie być w stanie poprawić swojej wydajności pracy. Dlatego też celem tego badania jest zbadanie spośród różnych stylów przywództwa, które style przywództwa są odpowiednie w sektorze zdrowia i silnie wpływają na wydajność pracy pracowników służby zdrowia. W związku z tym zebrano dane od 284 pracowników służby zdrowia pracujących w różnych rządowych i prywatnych szpitalach w Arabii Saudyjskiej i przeanalizowano przy użyciu programu SPSS w wersji 16. Do przetestowania hipotezy badawczej wykorzystano statystyki opisowe, techniki analizy korelacji i regresji wielokrotnej. Wyniki tego badania sugerują, że wśród różnych stylów przywództwa, transformacyjny i wielokulturowy styl przywództwa pozytywnie wpływa na wydajność pracy pracowników służby zdrowia. Wyniki tego badania będą pomocne decydentom i pracownikom służby zdrowia, aby bardziej skoncentrować się na transformacyjnym stylu przywództwa i wielokulturowym stylu przywództwa, zwłaszcza gdy pracownicy służby zdrowia należą do zróżnicowanej kultury
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
Does organisational culture influence human behaviour at work?
Full text linkThis article attempts to bring to the surface some key aspects, which closely related to the culture of the organisation.The article relates many key result areas, where the organisational culture influences the human behaviour at work.Work motivation, leadership, team work, organisational efficiency, organisational development, organisational changes etc., all are related to the beliefs and assumptions members have towards the prevalent organisational culture.The success of an organisation greatly depends how organisational members integrate the belief system and widely shared assumptions about work and work values.This article is based on the theoretical underpinnings, and the experience the author felt during his doctoral thesis work on impact of organisational culture upon employee‟s behaviour
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