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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Fall Prevention Nature Walk: Addressing Falls Prevention Across the Lifespan
No full textGeorgia Department of Public Health Injury Prevention Program (IPP) engages in robust state-based data and surveillance, strengthening strategic collaborations and partnerships, conducting assessments, and monitoring the effectiveness of evidence-based community programs. IPP is motivated to reduce risk factors for falls through a lens of shared risk and protective factors. By leveraging partnerships and resources we have developed an evidence-based fall prevention program that plays an important role in promoting health and well-being across the lifespan.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, falls are the second leading cause of unintentional injury deaths worldwide. In the United States, 28% of adults aged 65 and older report falling each year, resulting in approximately 36 million falls and 8 million fall related injuries each year. In Georgia, approximately 30.2% of adults aged 65 and older report falling each year. Despite the impact falls have on our communities, IPP acknowledges that falls are not an inevitable part of aging. Our approach to alleviate the problem is to support community-based efforts through the implementation of a Fall Prevention Nature Walk. This innovative approach derives from the Let’s Move Libraries StoryWalk® campaign used to promote literacy, reading, health, exercise, and movement in library settings across the U.S.
The Fall Prevention Nature Walk engages participants (at every stage of life), through informational boards that incorporate evidence-based national resources, self-assessments, checklists, and community resources connected to fall risk and fall prevention. Twenty-four informational boards constitute a full set, and topics include self-advocacy, brain health, and age-appropriate exercise. The boards will be installed along paved paths in nature settings to promote movement and positive behavior changes.
After the poster presentation from Georgia Department of Public Health Injury Prevention Program, attendees/learners will be able to identify risk factors for falls, discuss prevention strategies, and engage with local resources
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Utilizing Shared Risk and Protective Factors to Engage Partners and Enhance Collaboration Efforts
No full textThe Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) is the lead agency on preventing injury, disability, and disease, promoting health and well-being, and preparing for and responding to disasters. The Georgia DPH Injury Prevention Program (IPP) has two driving principles: addressing intentional and unintentional injury across the lifespan and utilizing the shared risk and protective factors (SRPF) framework. IPP has a long-standing history of collaboration across agencies and sectors, to address preventable harm across geography, gender, race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. Risk and protective factors are critical components for preventing several forms of intentional and unintentional injury and can be used to enhance current programming and services provided within an organization. SRPF drives the formation of strategic partnerships across sectors, builds capacity, ensures program sustainability through opportunities for diversified funding, and expands reach. Understanding the intersection of the SRPF framework will allow community partners to align their implementation efforts by integrating nontraditional and siloed partners into the organization\u27s prevention efforts. Most evidence-based strategies involve multiple sectors thus building an organization\u27s capacity to implement and creating new opportunities to sustain prevention work through collaboration
Building Connections and Partnerships: Addressing Fall Prevention Across the Lifespan
No full textGeorgia Department of Public Health Injury Prevention Program (IPP) engages in robust state-based data and surveillance, strengthening strategic collaborations and partnerships, conducting assessments, and monitoring the effectiveness of evidence-based community programs. IPP is motivated to reduce risk factors for falls through a lens of shared risk and protective factors. By leveraging community partnerships, we have launched an evidence-based fall prevention program that plays an important role in promoting health and well-being across the lifespan.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, falls are the second leading cause of unintentional injury deaths worldwide. In Georgia, approximately 30.2% of adults aged 65 and older report falling each year. To alleviate the problem, IPP has supported community-based efforts through the implementation and evaluation of a Fall Prevention Nature Walk. The Fall Prevention Nature Walk engages participants (at every stage of life), through informational boards that incorporate evidence-based national resources, self-assessments, checklists, and community resources connected to fall risk and fall prevention. This innovative approach derives from the Let’s Move Libraries StoryWalk® campaign used to promote literacy, reading, health, exercise, and movement in library settings across the U.S.
IPP has long acknowledged the importance of partnership building in achieving better health outcomes. Strengthening strategic collaborations and community partnerships are a core function of injury prevention. To support the success of the Fall Prevention Nature Walk, local partnership with public libraries were key. Libraries are critical access points, providing access to relevant health and wellness information to all community members. Through continuous collaboration with local public libraries and other community organizations, the Fall Prevention Nature Walk has the potential to reduce the frequency of falls across the lifespan throughout the state of Georgia
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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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