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BAPCast: S5E4: Defining and Measuring Indices of Happiness and Unhappiness in Children Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder with Devon Ramey
No full textBehavior Analysis in Practice (BAPcast)- The Podcast. BAPcast is a podcast focused on narrowing the research-practice gap and demystifying the research process. Each episode explores a different topic in behavior analysis/applied behavior analysis (ABA) by interviewing authors of recent papers published in the journal Behavior Analysis in Practice.Season 5, episode 4: Devon Ramey joins us to talk about their paper, Defining and Measuring Indices of Happiness and Unhappiness in Children Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder
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
The Impact of Combined Within- and Across-Activity Choice on the Indices of Happiness and Unhappiness of Autistic Children
No full textInterventions for autistic children should take a strengths-based approach that focuses on learning, social connection, and autonomy. Autonomy is developed through self-determination, which is a fundamental human right that contributes to a person’s quality of life (QoL). Research has found that autistic children are given limited opportunities to demonstrate self-determination. Thus, practitioners must provide meaningful opportunities for autistic children to engage in self-determined behavior, and have their choices and decisions honored. One area of instruction that could provide more choice-making opportunities is discrete trial teaching (DTT). To increase student motivation, highly preferred items are typically identified through a preference assessment, then they are used as reinforcers during teaching. Beyond this, however, autistic children are often given limited opportunities for choice within traditional DTT. Studies have shown that embedding choice into DTT is effective for improving problem behaviors and academic engagement. Yet very few studies have examined the effects of choice on more meaningful QoL indicators such as happiness. The purpose of this study was to objectively measure the individualized indices of happiness and unhappiness of three autistic children during DTT when a choice-based intervention was embedded. Through a multiple baseline across participants design, it was found that the addition of choice-making opportunities increased the indices of happiness and decreased the indices of unhappiness of all three participants. Small improvements in task engagement were also observed for two of the three participants. The findings and limitations of this study are discussed in terms of practical recommendations and areas for future research
The Impact of Combined Within- and Across-Activity Choice on the Indices of Happiness and Unhappiness of Autistic Children
No full textInterventions for autistic children should take a strengths-based approach that focuses on learning, social connection, and autonomy. Autonomy is developed through self-determination, which is a fundamental human right that contributes to a person’s quality of life (QoL). Research has found that autistic children are given limited opportunities to demonstrate self-determination. Thus, practitioners must provide meaningful opportunities for autistic children to engage in self-determined behavior, and have their choices and decisions honored. One area of instruction that could provide more choice-making opportunities is discrete trial teaching (DTT). To increase student motivation, highly preferred items are typically identified through a preference assessment, then they are used as reinforcers during teaching. Beyond this, however, autistic children are often given limited opportunities for choice within traditional DTT. Studies have shown that embedding choice into DTT is effective for improving problem behaviors and academic engagement. Yet very few studies have examined the effects of choice on more meaningful QoL indicators such as happiness. The purpose of this study was to objectively measure the individualized indices of happiness and unhappiness of three autistic children during DTT when a choice-based intervention was embedded. Through a multiple baseline across participants design, it was found that the addition of choice-making opportunities increased the indices of happiness and decreased the indices of unhappiness of all three participants. Small improvements in task engagement were also observed for two of the three participants. The findings and limitations of this study are discussed in terms of practical recommendations and areas for future research
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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