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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
Effectiveness of interactive health promotion madule in improving knowledge attitude and practice on leptospirosis among town service workers in Kelantan
Full text linkSeroprevalence, risk factors and the effectiveness of Interactive Health Promotion Module in improving
knowledge, attitude and practice on leptospirosis among town service workers in Kelantan. Leptospirosis is
presumed to be the most widespread re-emerging zoonotic disease of global importance affecting humans especially in tropical, subtropical and temperate zones. This study aims to determine the seroprevalence, knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) and risk factors for
leptospirosis and the effectiveness of Leptospirosis Interactive Health Promotion Module (LIHPM) among
town service workers in Kelantan. In Phase One, a cross sectional study was conducted among 321 town
service workers who fulfilled the study criteria and were randomly selected from four districts in Kelantan.
Interviewer guided sessions using a validated questionnaire which consists of socio-demographic,
occupational, environmental and recreational history as well as KAP questions were done with the subjects.
Blood sample was taken from each subject for enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and
microscopic agglutination test (MAT). In Phase Two, an intervention study was done involving 69 ‘high risk
for leptospirosis seropositivity’ subjects that were selected using Leptospirosis Risk Factor Checklist, in
which 32 subjects from Kota Bharu Municipal Council were assigned in intervention group whereas 37
subjects from Tanah Merah, Kuala Krai and Gua Musang District Councils were assigned to control group.
LIHPM was given to the intervention group while the control group received no intervention. The baseline
KAP score was taken as the pre-intervention score while post-intervention KAP score was taken six weeks
after intervention completion. All respondents were Malay race, predominantly males with the mean age of 40.6 (SD 10.28) years old. The
mean duration of employment was 12.1 (SD 9.62) years. The overall seroprevalence of leptospirosis was
25.5% and the predominant serovar identified was Sarawak (59.8%). In the KAP assessment, most of the
workers had moderate score for Knowledge domain and unsatisfactory score for Practice domain whereas
for Attitude domain, the percentage of those who had satisfactory score (52%) were slightly higher than
those with unsatisfactory score (48%). Occupational factors (worked overtime, contact with animal while
working and rats sighting at worksite) and environmental factor (live ^200 meters from river) were identified
as risk factors for leptospirosis exposure whereas recognized protective factors in this study were workers
with older age, wearing boots while working and washed hand with soap after work. Six weeks after
intervention completion, there was a significant increase of KAP mean score in intervention group (mean
difference in intervention group was 34.31 for Knowledge domain (95% Cl: 25.52, 43.10; p<0.001), 27.34 for
Attitude domain (95% Cl: 23.13, 31.55; p<0.001) and 26.74 for Practice domain (95% Cl: 22.56, 30.92;
p<0.001)) compared to control group which had no significant increase of KAP mean score. The present study confirms that town service workers in Kelantan are high risk occupational group for
leptospiral infection. There were a close association between leptospirosis seropositivity with sociodemographic,
occupational and environmental factors. The workers’ KAP were unsatisfactory that justify the
intervention program using LIHPM, which was found to be effective in improving KAP on leptospirosis among
town service workers in Kelantan
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
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
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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