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The harmful consequences of elevating the doctor-patient relationship to be a primary goal of the general practice consultation
No full textThe burden of depression in primary care: a qualitative investigation of general practitioners' constructs of depressed people in the inner city
No full textDepression is a common problem, often being recurrent or becoming chronic. It has been stated that people with depression should continue to be predominantly managed in primary care. There is much evidence to suggest that the detection and management of depression by general practitioners (GPs) could be improved, but little work has focused on GPs' views on their work with depressed patients. This was a qualitative study exploring GPs' attitudes to the management of patients with depression. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 22 GPs in north-west England. These GPs were practising in urban or inner-city areas and were all based in practices that participated in undergraduate teaching. The interviews were audiotaped and subsequently transcribed. Analysis was by constant comparison until category saturation was achieved. The subjects conceptualized depression as an everyday problem of practice rather than as an objective diagnostic category. Thematic coding of their accounts suggested a tension between three kinds of views of depressed people, namely (1) that depression is a common and normal response to socioeconomic disadvantage and that it reflects the medicalization of these conditions, (2) that the diagnosis of depression offers a degree of secondary gain to both patients and doctors and (3) that GPs experienced depressed people as an intractable interactional problem. It was concluded that depression is commonly presented to GPs who feel that its diagnosis often involves the separation of a normal reaction to a harsh environment and true illness. In addition, they felt ill-equipped to deal with the long-term management of such patients. They doubted that anything therapeutic occurs in review consultations with such patients. This has an important implication for the construction of educational interventions around improving the recognition and treatment of depression in primary care: doctors may be reluctant to recognize and respond to such patients in depth because of the much wider structural and social factors that we have suggested in this paper
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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