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Reality Check: Insights on Critical Thinking in Health Education Through Mobile Mixed Reality
No full textMobile mixed reality (mMR) is increasingly being integrated into health education, however, the affordances and design principles for the facilitation of critical thinking are yet to be explored. The objective of this study is to explore the perceptions of mobile mixed reality and critical thinking in health education. Thematic analysis was undertaken of data collected from focus groups including students, academics, and mobile mixed developers (n=8). The focus groups revealed two main themes: (1) “purposeful critical thinking” including the benefits of freedom of failure in the virtual environment, and (2) “making it meaningful” by incorporating co-design of virtual learning environments while extending or focusing the learning experience to something that could not be achieved any other way. We conclude that the potential for mMR in health education is considerable. Purposeful inclusion of critical thinking could be achieved by students co-designing scenarios that integrate choose-your-own-adventure healthcare pathways in safe, virtual environments
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
The Making of Copyright Law: Notes from an Australian Perspective
No full textCopyright law has become a more central concern in recent years. Australian law, having developed from its Anglo-Saxon roots, has been updated in accordance with international treaty obligations and changes described as the 'Digital Agenda'. This article generally describes the processes used and describes different ways of law making. It attributes significant appropriate influence to the library perspective in the present result in Australia.\ud
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Understanding and dealing with the law of copyright is not a popular pastime. It has this in common with other aspects of commercial property and trade law, but it is, of course, a matter of greatly increasing interest in the library profession. At the 2002 meeting of the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA), for example, it was quite noticeable that sessions on copyright matters attracted very large attendance, somewhat to the surprise of organisers whose expectations were low based on previous experience with this theme.\ud
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The reason for this is, of course, the extraordinary importance and complexity of issues that have been revealed by the advent of the digital age, and which continue to excite commentary from a range of interests, by no means confined to lawmakers. As Pamela Samuelson (the well known US academic and copyright commentator) remarked at the 2002 WWW conference, '... one reason why a new politics of intellectual property is necessary is that copyright now affects everyone'.[1]\ud
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This contribution considers the general principle of copyright law initially, comments on the mechanism which has developed in Australia for the review and development of change in the law before the digital age, and then reviews what has happened in the light of what has come to be known in this context as 'the digital agenda'. In doing so the broad social principles underlying copyright, together with the development of the importance of international law treaty obligations comprise significant elements in the picture
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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