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Investigating and Challenging Spiritual Deficiency within Canadian Health Care Educational Leadership Models
No full textAttempts to bring the spiritual dimension of health into Canadian Health Care Educational Leadership models encounter great resistance. Discourses about “spirituality” are often silenced within healthcare educational leadership to reduce misunderstandings. At least one author has suggested that health professionals and policy makers not only have little understanding of spiritual life but are not familiar with the language of spirituality. The World Health Organization, for its part, has suggested in a number of places that spiritual aspects of life are relevant to health and may be important to healing. This paper investigates and challenges this spiritual deficiency, commencing with a brief literature review that supports the need to challenge spiritual deficiency within present Canadian healthcare leadership models. It then presents work by the present author in the form of a summary of her larger study that investigates and presents the need for spiritual leadership within these models. The paper ends with a brief summary of the main implications and conclusions of her wider study
Cultivating Wisdom Within Education: A Mind/Heart Synergy
No full textAdministering both a spiritual and scientific perspective to educational leadership could create a blend of "wisdom schools and "knowledge factories" within systems designed for learning. This perspective supports a belief that mind intelligence and heart wisdom should function as an interdependent dynamic; the heart\u27s latent capacity for universal intelligence and wisdom must, like the mind, be provided with models for its full growth and development. Because education systems have tended to focus on preparing students for the job market and retaining a healthy status quo, many leadership and teaching models have ignored the value of contemplation or volunteer work, as part of the curriculum to cultivate wisdom. However, some post-modernists are currently aiming to cultivate wisdom within education by endorsing a mind/heart synergy
Introducing a Holistic Health Care Education Model that Employs the Difference Between Being Healed and Cured
No full textAbstract: The two authors of this article have been researching and discussing for many years the importance of a possible health care education curriculum that seriously considers the difference between being healed and being cured and the role spiritualty may play. While participating in a longstanding study of spirituality within healthcare, both authors observed their own experiences of having been diagnosed with “cancer” but still feeling healthy and happy. Despite their biological health circumstances, they have been living life to the fullest with optimism that they are able to function beyond any suppositions associated with a medical diagnosis. Thus, they have been revisiting their earlier research findings and their hypothesizing that there is a difference between being healed and being cured, which should be introduced into health care education. The authors conclude that there is considerable support in the medical research community for further work around the relationship between spirituality and being healed. Their objective has been to discover something their research participants have claimed, related to being healed or cured. And the authors wished to gain some understanding of their personal approaches to healing that might prove useful to mainstream medical practice in North America. In this research paper, the authors will report on what their long-standing research group, consisting of a medical professor, a religious studies professor, a professor of higher education, a sociology professor, a registered nurse and a Reiki healer have reported on so far
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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