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Meaningful Work in Midwifery
No full textThere has been an increase in the study of meaningful work as scholars and practitioners seek ways to enhance an employees' sense of purpose. This exciting topic has been explored in several occupations and industries. Two competing approaches to meaningful work dominate the literature. There is the unidimensional perspective (meaning is achieved through a single dimension), and the multidimensional perspective (meaning is experienced through a range of dimensions).
This study applies a multidimensional perspective using the framework: The Map of Meaning—to investigate New Zealand facility based midwives’ experiences. The Map of Meaning uses seven dimensions to consider the meaningfulness or meaninglessness that the participant experiences in each area. A scoping review was completed to identify any literature based on meaningful work in midwifery. Results of the review concluded that no research has been completed to understand midwives perception of meaningfulness from their occupation.
Five New Zealand, facility based midwives participated in this research. Each participant completed a survey to present their own personal experience of meaningfulness within their role. Following this, in-depth interviews were conducted and transcripts were analysed using thematic analysis. Findings show that connection with others, differing philosophies, and workload and staff shortages were the themes extracted from the data to show midwives experiences of meaningfulness or meaninglessness at work
The Mediating Role of Boundary Flexibility in the Workload and Work Fatigue Relationship among New Zealand-Based Midwives
No full textThis dissertation adopts an organisational behavioural (OB) and management approach to explore the effects of boundary flexibility on role demands and personal wellbeing among New Zealand (NZ) midwives. The paper reviews how research on fatigue has largely cited workload as a cause—reinforcing consequences of role flexibility and transitioning between family and work domains. The study aims to investigate the mediating role of ‘family flexibility ability’ on the workload and work fatigue relationship of Lead Maternity Carer (LMC) midwives. An LMC is responsible for organising and developing maternity care and birth plans. Family flexibility ability is defined as the ability of workers to leave the roles of the family domain for the roles of the work domain (Edwards & Rothbard, 1999; Kossek et al., 2006). The causes of work fatigue are numerous and range from time spent awake to family and work domain responsibilities (Caldwell et al., 2019; Dorrian et al., 2011). In the NZ maternity health system, LMC midwives are contracted by the Ministry of Health (MoH) to provide maternity care for women under a continuity of care (COC) model. COC case-loading model indicate that women register with one LMC for their entire maternity care experience (Ministry of Health, 2019). LMC midwives are self-employed therefore, their work domain roles include diverse components such as 24/7 on-call clinical, psychological, and business management roles. LMC midwives are often females who further need to juggle between the responsibilities of their family and work domain roles. Study data (N = 301) was drawn from the responses of LMC midwives in Phase One of the 2019 New Zealand Midwifery Work and Wellbeing (NZ MidWoW) study. The boundary theory, job demands-resources (JD-R) model, and motivational control theory provide the theoretical framework to explore this data. Consistent with the literature, the study finds that quantity of workload is positively correlated to physical, mental, and emotional work fatigue. Using PROCESS analysis, the research confirms
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the mediating role of ‘family flexibility ability’ in the relationship between quantitative workload and work fatigue in this study’s population. Quantitative workload refers to an excessive amount of work that workers cannot complete within the prescribed period (Van Sell et al., 1981). This dissertation provides new knowledge regarding the relationship between workload and work fatigue among LMC midwives that requires them to regularly address work concerns while in their family domain. It is argued that the mediated pathway approach sheds light on supporting LMC midwives to be more sustainable in their vital role as healthcare providers. Both theoretical and practical implications of findings are discussed
Embryonic mortality, bioassay derived 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin equivalents, and organochlorine contaminants in Pacific salmon from Lake Ontario
No full textWhile large numbers of hatchery reared salmonids have been stocked into the Great Lakes, few of these introduced populations have become self-substaining. Many salmonid populations are contaminated by organochlorine chemicals, and some experience embryonic and fry mortality when reared in hatcheries, which might reduce the survival of naturally deposited embryos and thereby compromise natural recruitment. Embryos from two such populations inhabiting Lake Ontario, coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) and chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), were reared under hatchery conditions in 1990, experiencing mean mortality rates of 46% and 24% respectively. This mortality occurred both prior to eye-up and from eye-up to hatch, was female specific, and did not correlate with either muscle or egg levels of total PCB, mirex, octachlorostyrene, or DDT. The levels of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin equivalent concentrations (TEC) determined with the H4IIE rat hepatoma bioassay ranged from 88 to 320 ppt in the eggs, and while they correlated with organochlorine residues, TEC did not correlate with embryonic mortality. Further investigations of fish-specific TEC bioassays and chemical or biotic influences on gonadal maturation and quality appear necessary to confirm the suggestion that embryonic mortality in these species is not related to organochlorines such as PCBs or dioxins.PT: J; UT: BIOSIS:PREV199497543219; GE: Canada; North America; Nearctic region/Ontario; Canada, North America; Nearctic regionSource type: Electronic(1
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
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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