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The potential for AI to the monitoring and support for caregivers: an urgent tech-social challenge
Full text linkItaly stands at the forefront of a group of high and middle-income countries currently experiencing
a relatively swift progression of population ageing. Meeting the social challenges and seizing the
opportunities connected with population ageing represents a complex task. The increasing gap
between long-term care needs of an older population, and available formal and informal care
resources is perhaps one of the most critical challenges posed by the process of population ageing
to our social fabric. The actual institutional arrangements characterising long-term care provision
in Italy are ill-equipped to face such a challenge. It is in this context that solutions based on both
assistive technologies and artificial intelligence appear as a necessary avenue to increase the future
social and economic sustainability of population ageing. “Care Sustainability in an Ageing Society”
(CaSAS) is part of the larger Age-It national project, which is dedicated to better equipping and
preparing Italian society through institutional, economic, social, medical, and technological
solutions to face the challenges and meet the opportunities presented by rapid population ageing.
Prior research has predominantly focused on utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) and assistive
technology (AT) to enhance the capacity and intensity of monitoring the health conditions and
activities of care receivers. Some AI applications were also implemented to assist caregivers with
advice to provide care tasks or to remember caregiving routines. CaSAS seeks to complement this
approach by shifting the focus toward caregivers’ skills, information, and, most importantly, their
physical and mental well-being. Both informal and formal caregivers require tailored, specific
advice, education, and information to better cope with caregiving tasks and the associated burden.
The potential of AI and AT tools is substantial in expanding existing protocols, interventions, and
best practices from occasional small-scale experiences to interventions that impact the general
population, potentially yielding ground-breaking social impact. The preliminary phases of
implementation of the CaSAS research program led to the formulation of five recommendations
when planning and utilizing AI and AT solutions in the context of the caregiver-care receiver
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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
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
Supplemental Material - How Culture Shapes Informal Caregiver Motivations: A Meta-Ethnographic Review
No full textSupplemental Material for How Culture Shapes Informal Caregiver Motivations: A Meta-Ethnographic Review by Mikołaj Zarzycki, Diane Seddon, Eva Bei, Rachel Dekel, and Val Morrison in Qualitative Health Research</p
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
Supplemental Material - How Culture Shapes Informal Caregiver Motivations: A Meta-Ethnographic Review
No full textSupplemental Material for How Culture Shapes Informal Caregiver Motivations: A Meta-Ethnographic Review by Mikołaj Zarzycki, Diane Seddon, Eva Bei, Rachel Dekel, and Val Morrison in Qualitative Health Research</p
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
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