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Risk factors' evaluation for dogs' welfare housed in long-term shelters
No full textThe introduction of no-kill policy for Italian sheltered dogs has resulted in their permanently detention in long-term facilities, if they are not returned to the owner or adopted. In this scenario sheltered dogs can be exposed to many stressors such as poor environment, social deprivation, spatial confinement and changes in their routine For this reason the welfare of sheltered dogs is an important topic for the scientific community as well as for public opinion. The aim of this study was to identify the risk factors which affected mostly the welfare of sheltered dogs through the application Shelter Quality protocol (SQP) in Italian long-term shelters by linking input/outcome variables. The SQP was applied in 64 Italian long-term shelters which took part to the study voluntarily. Logistic regression analysis were carried out on data collected to identify the main factors which affect the welfare of dogs in shelter environment. Management factors such as feeding regimen ad libitum (β 0.59; P<0.05), type of diet with cooked food (β 2.27; P<0,001),the impossibility to access daily to outdoor area (β 0,93; P<0,001) showed a significant association with inadequate BCS. The probability to observe skin lesions was influenced by bedding inadequacy (β 0,54; P<0,01) and bedding type (β -1.0501; P< 0.05). The presence of clean bedding materials was significantly associated with lower probability to observe dirty/wet dogs (β -0.86; P<0.001) as well as the presence of one bed per dog (β -0.49; P<0.001). The inadequacy of shelter from adverse weather conditions (β 1,52; P<0,001) and bedding materials (β 1,16; P<0,05) were significantly associated with manifestation of polypnoea. The absence of training activities with dogs (β 0,30; P<0,05), the impossibility to outdoor areas’ access (β 0,44; P<0,01) and to walk on leash (β 0,26; P<0,05) increased significantly the probability to observe fear and aggressive dogs’ reaction toward humans. The probability to observe signs of diarrhoea increased significantly when the feeding regimen is one/day (β 1,56; P<0,01) or ad libitum (β 1,31; P<0.05), and when the access to outdoor areas was not allowed (β 0,72; P<0,05). The SQP has confirmed its useful in identifying most welfare hazards in the shelter environment and management. The identification of critical aspects can also permit to plan strategic interventions in order to minimize the risks and improve the welfare of dogs housed in long-term shelters
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
Animal welfare in italian lomg-term shelters : benchmark against an “Ideal Shelter”
No full textAim of this study was to generate a benchmark of the Italian situation based on the assessments’ results. A final scoring system of the SQP was created, thanks to an expert opinion, assigning weights to each principle, criterion, measure and categorical variable included within the protocol. Finally, through specific algorithms, a database was built to calculate automatically the final percentage score of each shelter in respect to the “ideal shelter” (100%)
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
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