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An integrative evidence review on service user participation in the design and delivery of drug treatment, recovery and harm reduction services.
No full textThis study aims to provide an overview of what user involvement entails within the context of drug treatment services in Ireland. The objective of the study is to provide policy-makers, practitioners, researchers and service users with a clearer understanding of the challenges associated with user involvement, a fundamental paradigm or principle when seeking to develop more effective and satisfactory services. The study involved a lengthy and complex series of research tasks, including an extensive literature search, a service user consultation and discussions with a number of stakeholders. Julie Glanville was responsible for designing the literature search, Feline Engling Cardoso coordinated the stakeholder interviews and Jonathan Pratschke carried out the service user consultation, as well as analysing the interview transcripts and supervising the study. Brian Galvin from the Health Research Board provided oversight and guidance, the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland provided ethical approval for the service user consultation
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
No full text“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
No full textWe 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
No full textWe 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
Sterben im Krankenhaus und hospizfreundliche Krankenhäuser. Reflexionen aus Irland
No full textThe chapter assesses the quality of care provided by Irish hospitals in the last week of life. It is based on the results of a project funded by the Hospice-friendly Hospitals Programme (2007-2012) and contributes to the growing practice within the Irish hospital system of auditing performance against standards in order to ensure that every aspect of its work meets, and even exceeds, the highest standards of care and excellence. The chapter addresses a number of questions, the first of which is "how good are the care outcomes for patients who die in Irish hospitals compared to hospitals elsewhere?" The second is "which care inputs have a significant and substantial influence on care outcomes?" The third is: "how can the findings be used to improve the quality of end-of-life care in Irish hospitals?" In order to answer these questions, data were collected from nurses, doctors and relatives who spent the most time with a sample of 1,000 patients during their last week of life. Each hospital completed the audit on a random sample of 50 deaths in the four month period between November 2008 and February 2009. As a proportion of total deaths in Ireland in 2008, this is a representative sample of 10% of acute hospital deaths and 29% of community hospital deaths.
The research was carried out in 24 acute hospitals which constitute three quarters of the acute hospital sector in Ireland. Data collection was also completed in 19 community hospitals which represents 20% of community hospital beds in the country
Incidencia de la motivación en el clima laboral del personal del colegio católico José Engling
No full textEl Colegio Católico José Engling, es una institución educativa, la cual está conformada por distintas áreas de trabajo como la administrativa, académica, mantenimiento y formación. El propósito de esta disertación es estudiar la influencia que tiene la motivación en el clima laboral de la institución, con esto se pretende analizar de qué manera se ve o no afectado el clima laboral cuando sus colaboradores se sienten motivados. Para ello, es importante conceptualizar cada uno de los sistemas que componen el ambiente organizacional, estudiando las diferentes teorías que sirven como sustento al momento de desarrollar el análisis, tanto en clima laboral como en la motivación. Para el desarrollo, se procedió a tomar una muestra del total del universo encontrado en la institución; y se realizó encuestas acordes, que permitieron medir e interactuar la relación entre las diferentes variables. Utilizando la operacionalización de variables se determinó las dependientes y las independientes, adaptando preguntas para que cumplan los requerimientos de cada una de ellas, y que se encuentren sustentadas por las teorías analizadas. De los resultados que se obtuvieron se realizó un análisis de datos univariados y bivariados para obtener conclusiones válidas sobre el clima laboral y la motivación de la institución y posteriormente, de ser posible sugerir mejoras en caso de requerirlo. Finalmente, considerar que en el Colegio Católico José Engling no se han realizado estudios referentes a clima laboral y motivación, genera una oportunidad para evaluar el estado que presentan sus colaboradores y la importancia de medir continuamente esta gestión del talento humano.Capítulo I. El problema de la investigación. Capítulo II. Marco teórico. Capítulo III. Metodología. Capítulo IV. Análisis e interpretación de resultados. Capítulo V. Conclusiones y recomendaciones. Capítulo VI. La propuesta. Bibliografía
Author, publisher and bookseller : a tripartite synergy in Nigerian book industry
No full textThis work is about the roles of Author, Publisher and Bookseller in Book development in
Nigeria. The paper started by delving into the history of Book Publishing in Nigeria after
which it proceeded by defining who an author, a publisher, and a bookseller is and
expatiated on the indispensable roles of these key actors in Nigerian Book Industry and in
the emerging Information Society. Furthermore, the various constraints to book
development were identified while the paper advised on how the Book Industry can be
further promoted in Nigeria. However, the paper concluded and made recommendations
on how the Book sector can help in enhancing scholarship in the country
The Thursday Murder Club: Launching a megabrand author - a publishing case study
No full textIn 2020, the Christmas book charts in the UK made headlines: Barack Obama’s eagerly awaited autobiography, The Promised Land, was beaten to the top spot by The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman, a debut cosy crime novel set in a retirement village. Not only did Osman’s book beat the former US president’s expected bestseller, it also broke records, becoming the fastest-selling debut crime novel of all time. Although Osman has a certain level of fame in the UK from his TV appearances on shows such as Pointless, his celebrity status does not entirely explain the novel’s huge sales. This article tracks the acquisition, publication, and promotion journey of The Thursday Murder Club in order to understand the industry and cultural context of its success and to interrogate the role of celebrity in the creation of author brands. The findings suggest that the unexpected scale of the success of the book owed to a number of factors, including in-depth editing by the novel’s agent, editor, and author to tighten up the plot, an extensive and strategic promotional campaign, the pandemic (which drove interest in the book’s genre and themes), and the quality of the writing. We find that the book’s success was accentuated by Osman’s celebrity status rather than being entirely reliant on it. This research adds to the growing scholarship on celebrity authorship by means of an in-depth case study and provides insight into the processes behind publishing a ‘celebrity’ book and launching a megabrand author
Biosynthetic FGF-2 is targeted to non-lipid raft microdomains following translocation to the extracellular surface of CHO cells
No full textBasic fibroblast growth factor (FGF-2) is a secretory protein that lacks a signal peptide. Consistently, FGF-2 has been shown to be secreted by an ER-Golgi-independent mechanism; however, the machinery mediating this process remains to be established at the molecular level. Here we introduce a novel experimental system based on flow cytometry that allows the quantitative assessment of non-classical FGF-2 secretion in living cells. Stable cell lines have been created by retroviral transduction that express various kinds of FGF-2-GFP fusion proteins in a doxicyclin-dependent manner. Following induction of protein expression, biosynthetic FGF-2-GFP is shown to translocate to the outer surface of the plasma membrane as determined by both fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS) and confocal microscopy. Both N- and C-terminal GFP tagging of FGF-2 is compatible with FGF-2 export, which is shown to occur in a controlled fashion rather than through unspecific release. The experimental system described has strong implications for the identification of both FGF-2 secretion inhibitors and molecular components involved in FGF-2 secretion. In the second part of this study we made use of the FGF-2 export system described to analyze the fate of biosynthetic FGF-2-GFP following export to the extracellular space. We find that secreted FGF-2 fusion proteins accumulate in large heparan sulfate proteoglycan (HSPG)-containing protein clusters on the extracellular surface of the plasma membrane. These microdomains are shown to be distinct from caveolae-like lipid rafts known to play a role in FGF-2-mediated signal transduction. Since CHO cells lack FGF high-affinity receptors (FGFRs), it can be concluded that FGFRs mediate the targeting of FGF-2 to lipid rafts. Consistently, FGF-2-GFP-secreting CHO cells do not exhibit increased proliferation activity. Externalization and deposition of biosynthetic FGF-2 in HSPG-containing protein clusters are independent processes, as a soluble secreted intermediate was demonstrated. The balance between intracellular FGF-2 and HSPG-bound secreted FGF-2 is shown not to be controlled by the availability of cell surface HSPGs, indicating that the FGF-2 secretion machinery itself is rate-limiting
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