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RC-Ecomap: a valid and reliable tool toassess intimate relatioships
Get PDFIn the assessment of intimate relationship, researchers have to conciliate two possible and hazy levels of investigation: Idiographic and nomotethic approach. The Ecomap is suggested as an instrument that could link clinical practice and research, qualitative and quantitative method, idiographic and nomothetic approach. Although the Ecomap is widely utilized, due in part to its ease of administration, it has not been validated in the literature as a reliable and valid tool in spite of efforts to carry out it.
This study aims to overcome the methodological limits of the traditional Ecomap, proposing a new reliable and valid Ecomap to assess intimate relationships, for practice and research. By reviewing the literature on the Ecomap has been examined the methodological limits of the tool. In order to overcome the limits, it was created a new Ecomap (RC-Ecomap) to assess intimate relationships of individuals (I RC-Ecomap), couples (C RC-Ecomap), and families (F RC-Ecomap). The new instrument was based on the Relational Competence Theory of L ‘Abate (1995, 2000, 2005). Examples of Individual, Couple, and Family RC-Ecomaps are presented following an idiographic approach. Then a series of nomothetic research studies are presented in order to verify psychometric properties, reliability, internal, and concurrent validity (Italian and Spanish versions), predictive, and differential validity (parents of psychotic patients, alcoholics attending a rehabilitative program, high and low scores at the Narcissism Scale, with Italian participants) of RC-Ecomap.
The results suggest that RC-Ecomap is a valid and reliable tool to assess intimate relationship, emphasizing its bridge function between in clinical practice and research. But more research is needed with more extensive and balanced groups of non-clinical participants, especially in the Spanish context, and with other clinical groups.
A RC-Ecomap training program is proposed.Nell’assessment delle relazioni significative i ricercatori si sono sempre trovati di fronte al problema di dover conciliare i due possibili livelli di analisi che possono essere ricondotti agli approcci di tipo idiografico e nomotetico. La letteratura indica l’Ecomappa quale strumento che riesce a conciliare pratica clinica e ricerca, aspetto qualitativo e quantitativo, approccio idiografico e nomotetico. Sebbene l’Ecomappa sia uno strumento largamente utilizzato per la sua facilità di impiego, essa non è stata ancora dimostrata l’attendibilità e validità dello strumento, nonostante le ricerche condotte in questa direzione.
Lo studio presentato ha come l’obiettivo di superare i limiti metodologici dell’Ecomappa tradizionale, proponendo una nuova eco mappa per l’assessment delle relazioni significative, da utilizzare sia nella pratica clinica sia nella ricerca.
La rassegna della letteratura sull’Ecomappa ha permesso di evidenziare i limiti metodologici dello strumento tradizionale, punto di partenza per la costruzione di una nuova proposta: l’Ecomappa di Competenza Relazionale (RC-Ecomap) per l’assessment delle relazioni significative di singoli (I RC-Ecomap), coppie (C RC-Ecomap) e famiglie (F RC-Ecomap). Il nuovo strumento è stato operativizzato attraverso la Teoria della Competenza Relazionale di Luciano L’Abate (1995, 2000, 2005). Allo scopo di mostrare il suo utilizzo nella pratica clinica, sono presentati alcuni esempi di applicazioni di RC-Ecomap secondo l’approccio idiografico di un individuo, una coppia, una famiglia e una famiglia problematica. Una serie di ricerche nomotetiche sono presentate per evidenziare le caratteristiche psicometriche, di attendibilità, validità concorrente (versione italiana e spagnola), validità predittiva, validità differenziale (con parenti di pazienti psicotici istituzionalizzati, alcolisti che stanno seguendo un programma riabilitativo, soggetti con alti e bassi punteggi a una scala di Narcisismo) di RC-Ecomap.
I risultati suggeriscono che RC-Ecomap è uno strumento affidabile e valido per l’assessment delle relazioni significative, che evidenziando la sua funzione di collegamento tra pratica clinica e ricerca. Comunque nuove ricerche sono necessarie con campioni più estesi e bilanciati (soprattutto per la versione spagnola) clinici e non clinici.
La presentazione dello studio termina con la proposta di un programma di addestramento all’uso di RC-Ecomap sviluppato nel corso di due anni di esperienza con gli studenti dell’Università di Padova e Siviglia
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
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Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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