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Human rights and dementia:a 'Socratic dialogue'
Get PDFIn recent years there has been growing interest in a human rights-based approach (HRBA) to dementia derived from other areas of disability rights activism. Whilst such a model raises important points of principle regarding, for example, the participation of people living with dementia, several cautionary arguments have been raised, including those inspired by post theories (e.g. poststructuralism, posthumanism, postmodernism). Presented in the form of a Socratic Dialogue between two authors with differing perspectives on the question of human rights and dementia, this chapter debates the development of human rights and their implications for the future of dementia studies. Speaking as an advocate of human rights-based approaches in dementia, Williamson argues that the language of rights can helpfully reframe our understandings of dementia and those affected by it, leading to enhanced legal status and better treatment, while recognising the challenges of putting an HRBA into practice. Williamson supports this with specific examples such as the creation of the Dementia Engagement and Empowerment Project (DEEP) and the establishment of dementia friendly communities. Speaking from a more posthumanist, multi-species perspective, Jenkins considers the historic roots of human rights in enlightenment philosophy, their connections to human exceptionalism and bounded individualism. Drawing on the work of critical scholars, including Donna Haraway and Karen Barad, Jenkins argues for what he sees as a more radical ontological, ethical and epistemological project; one which recognises the contribution that HRBA have made, but which seeks to go beyond liberal humanist understandings of rights. The dialogue concludes with each author exploring how their contrasting perspectives can help stimulate new questions, agendas and avenues for social change
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
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
A Narrative Study Carried Out With Older Women With Dementia Who Live Alone: Storytelling About Their Living Arrangements and Wishes For The Future
No full textThis study sets out to explore the significance of gender as an element in the experience of older women living alone at the time of a diagnosis of dementia. It places particular emphasis on power, voice and in/visibility in both research practice and co-production.
Older women who live alone may experience difficulties after diagnosis in adapting to their environments. There is not a clear picture of support networks, such as the roles within broader families, neighbours or friends and access to services. Fewer studies focus on women and dementia from a gendered perspective and more on dementia and caregivers. As such, questions about gender, dementia and ageing are not being raised as interrelated and the voices of these women are silent.
The study was informed by feminist theory and the concept of intersectionality which become the principal way to theorise the relations between systems of oppression and privilege. This provided a lens with which to expose and examine gendered assumptions within dementia.
The design was a qualitative study, and the approach was narrative research. The approach that was taken to collect the data was storytelling, which was analysed by re-storying the stories, and developing themes, in a chronology order.
The thesis also discusses my positionality as a Black British female researcher, including experiences of racism, both within the academia and in the research field
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
Human rights and dementia:a 'Socratic dialogue'
Get PDFIn recent years there has been growing interest in a human rights-based approach (HRBA) to dementia derived from other areas of disability rights activism. Whilst such a model raises important points of principle regarding, for example, the participation of people living with dementia, several cautionary arguments have been raised, including those inspired by post theories (e.g. poststructuralism, posthumanism, postmodernism). Presented in the form of a Socratic Dialogue between two authors with differing perspectives on the question of human rights and dementia, this chapter debates the development of human rights and their implications for the future of dementia studies. Speaking as an advocate of human rights-based approaches in dementia, Williamson argues that the language of rights can helpfully reframe our understandings of dementia and those affected by it, leading to enhanced legal status and better treatment, while recognising the challenges of putting an HRBA into practice. Williamson supports this with specific examples such as the creation of the Dementia Engagement and Empowerment Project (DEEP) and the establishment of dementia friendly communities. Speaking from a more posthumanist, multi-species perspective, Jenkins considers the historic roots of human rights in enlightenment philosophy, their connections to human exceptionalism and bounded individualism. Drawing on the work of critical scholars, including Donna Haraway and Karen Barad, Jenkins argues for what he sees as a more radical ontological, ethical and epistemological project; one which recognises the contribution that HRBA have made, but which seeks to go beyond liberal humanist understandings of rights. The dialogue concludes with each author exploring how their contrasting perspectives can help stimulate new questions, agendas and avenues for social change
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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