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Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-her-10.1177_19375867211072513 - Healing Architecture in Healthcare: A Scoping Review
No full textSupplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-her-10.1177_19375867211072513 for Healing Architecture in Healthcare: A Scoping Review by Thorben Simonsen, Jodi Sturge and Cameron Duff in HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal</p
Enabling places and enabling resources: New directions for harm reduction research and practice
No full textIn this digest, Cameron Duff proposes a different way of understanding the risk environment literature as it relates to the implementation of harm reduction. He argues that we need to look beyond the everyday tools of harm reduction like needle and syringe programs and peer education to 'enabling places' and 'enabling resources', areas where public policy makers and social planners can ensure the delivery of more innovative harm reduction policies and programs. Duff urges us to see harm reduction as more than just providing drug users with specific resources to reduce individual drug-related harm. Instead, he argues that we need to make use of the range of material, social and affective resources that are available across the diverse settings in which drug use occurs. © 2010 Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs
Tracing contexts in events of young people’s party drug use
No full textConsumption contexts have been shown to play a significant role in how young people use illicit party drugs such as MDMA, methamphetamines, cocaine, and psychedelics. Current research approaches tend to deploy macro-structural, social or cultural explanations for the role of context in drug use, which have difficulty accounting for the specific and diverse drug use practices evident in particular times and spaces. To address this, in this research I developed a novel research approach to trace how drug use unfolds during particular events or occasions at music festivals and licensed venues in Melbourne, Australia. Drawing conceptual and methodological sensitivities from Actor-Network Theory (ANT) within an ethnographic methodology, I explored how social, spatial, material and temporal aspects of consumption contexts mediated young people’s drug use events. Data were generated through in-depth interviews with young people aged 18-23 years; participant-written diaries and diary-interviews; and participant observation at music festivals and licensed venues. I used these data to generate an innovative way of empirically examining the role of contexts based on the notion of events and event analysis. In this thesis, I discuss the challenges and opportunities presented by doing ANT-inspired social research, and present my empirical findings in four publications reproduced in Chapters 4–7. In the first of these publications, I argue that examining drug use events provides a way forward for tracing the role of contexts in young people’s party drug use practices, presenting a case study of MDMA use by a young man. In the second publication, I demonstrate how the socio-spatial relations of campsites at multiple-day music festivals are involved in generating drug knowledge, norms, access, exchange, harm and harm reduction practices at festivals. Thirdly, in a book chapter co-authored with Jakob Demant, I investigate how police interventions using drug-detection (sniffer) dogs at music festival entrances impact young people’s drug use at festivals. In the final publication, co-author Cameron Duff and I explore how posthumanist approaches to social research, such as ANT, can contribute to alternative articulations of human subjectivity. We propose that framing subjectivity in terms of ‘tendencies’ and ‘trajectories’ should facilitate empirical and conceptual investigation of the role of the human subject in drug use events. Throughout the thesis I contend that it is necessary to explore the ways in which spaces are made to have particular effects by a collection of varied actors and forces. By way of conclusion, the final chapter considers the implications of my empirical and theoretical findings for the design of innovative research programs and practical interventions to prevent event-related harms arising from young people’s party drug use
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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