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Writing And Communication in Early Egyptian Monasticism. ‘Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity'
No full textGo to Online Edition Edited by Malcolm Choat Macquarie University & Maria Chiara Giorda University of Turin As senders of letters, copyists of literary texts, compilers of accounts, readers, and teachers, the monks of late antique Egypt articulated their interactions with their ascetic and secular environments via their role as authors, scribes, and owners of written text. This volume edited by Malcolm Choat and Maria Chiara Giorda examines the presence and practice of writing, modes of written communication, and the symbolic and spiritual value of the written word in monastic communities. Contributions cover evidence from papyri and inscriptions to literature transmitted in manuscripts, positioned within the shift in recent scholarship away from literature such as hagiography as a source of positivistic history, towards evidence that derives more directly from the monk or period in focus
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
Becoming and being therapists through the therapeutic alliance: exploring early-career psychologists’ experiences of the therapeutic alliance in CBT practice
No full textStudies consistently show that the therapeutic alliance—the bond between therapist and client and the agreed-upon goals and tasks—strongly predicts therapeutic outcomes. However, the therapist’s perspective on the alliance remains underexplored, particularly among early-career psychologists who are developing their professional identity. This study examined the therapeutic alliance experiences of psychologists with less than five years of practice, focusing on those using cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to enhance generalisability. It aimed to identify and describe their experiences, assess potential negative impacts on alliance formation, explore psychologist qualities influencing the alliance, and examine how their perceptions shape their work and identity. A mixed-methods sequential explanatory design was used. Study 1, a quantitative phase, surveyed 53 participants using the Working Alliance Inventory (WAI), Counselling Self-Estimate Inventory (COSE), Therapist Work Involvement Scale (TWIS), and Work as Meaning Inventory (WAMI). Study 2, the qualitative phase, included 16 one-to-one interviews, followed by two focus groups: one with six early-career psychologists from the same organisation and another with six senior clinicians. Data were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis, integrating findings from both studies. Study 1 found a strong relationship between global WAI scores and the goals and tasks subscales, but a moderate relationship with the bond subscale. Some COSE and TWIS subscales followed this pattern. However, contrary to expectations, WAMI scores did not correlate with WAI scores. Study 2 identified five themes: (1) The alliance’s importance, (2) Three forms of “being there” in therapy, influenced by context, (3) The transformative impact of the alliance, (4) Experiential or phenomenological knowing in the alliance, and (5) Being a psychologist versus merely doing psychology. The study concluded that early-career psychologists experience the alliance as both instrumental (skills-based) and personal (interpersonal/intrapersonal), supporting a dual-factor view of the alliance. Limitations and recommendations for supervision and training to enhance alliance-building skills are discussed
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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