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Relational Music Therapy: An Intersubjective Perspective (Gro Trondalen)
Get PDFThis is a review of the book "Relational Music Therapy: An Intersubjective Perspective" authored by Gro Trondalen.
Title: Relational Music Therapy: An Intersubjective Perspective | Author: Gro Trondalen | Publication year: 2016 | Publisher: Barcelona Publishers | Pages: 177 | ISBN: 978193744018
New Zealand and Music Therapy: A Synopsis of a New Scene
No full textThere are two historical threads to the beginnings of music therapy recognition in New Zealand; one came from the initiatives of an audiologist in Auckland. The other grew out of the passion of an expatriate New Zealander who had been in Juliette Alvin\u27s first group of music therapy students at the Guildhall in London
The effect of music therapy on motor control of cerebral palsied children : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Philosophy in education at Massey University
Get PDFIn this study, the use of music therapy with cerebral palsied children aimed to establish consistent motor control and extend rehearsal of functional motor actions. Music therapy processes explored the effect of auditory rhythm and pentatonic melody on the quantity and regularity of arm-hand motor action of children with cerebral palsy. Eight children, aged five to eleven years, were involved, each child being considered as a single subject case study. The design of the study was an interrupted time series design (ABACA). A constant beat sound stimulus, emitted by a music-based computer, was determined from the personal tempo of each child and formed a beat-only condition in A sections. That beat sound was joined by child-activated pitched sounds in B and C, together with a third compatible music stimulus in section C, which was singing by the therapist. Pitched sounds and singing were restricted to the five notes of a selected pentatonic scale. Each child was asked to 'play with the beat', making arm-hand contact on a specially constructed keyboard. Measurements were recorded instantly by the computer, which registered number of contacts made, average note duration, note changes made, and three measurements relating to regularity of contacts made. Results showed that all children attended to the music-based task of playing with the beat. Melody plus rhythm stimuli gave more motor contact actions than rhythm stimulus alone, for all children. Measurements of regularity of motor control, (deviation from beat, average tempo and pulse-tempo deviation), were affected in varying ways by melody plus rhythm. Some neuromuscular delay could be inferred, although anticipation of beat sound and muscle action inherent in a rhythm task was present. This suggests that cerebral palsied children respond to a music-based task with extension of effort and some control of muscle tone. Results from pre and post tests done using selected items from the Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency did not give results that could be regarded as significant. A longer experimental period than three weeks is suggested for similar studies. Computer measurement of time-based motor behaviour resulting from music stimuli was objective and accurate. Similar type music therapy studies could find this use of a music-based computer for measurement most useful. Overall the aim of the study was to look at the effect of music therapy on motor control of cerebral palsied children. Regular rhythm was used to provide structure for the required time-ordered behaviour, and the pace of befit stimulus given was personal to each child. In 'playing with the beat' the child attempted to synchronise arm-hand action with the beat-based signal; this process required cognitive anticipation of a sensorimotor action. The ability to make regular contact was relative to degree of neuromuscular dysfunction, age and maturation and affective interest in the task. The independent variables of music therapy, with rhythm and melody, were employed in a planned, sequential order so that the dependent variable, motor control, could be measured relative to the whole task and to rhythmic and melodic components in the task. The planned processes of a simple music therapy task, using rhythm and melody stimuli, supported extension of rehearsal of a motor task and improvement of motor control
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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