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Online Discussion Forum Questions and Answers Relating to Childhood Health
No full textThis dataset compiles six months of questions with their corresponding answers from two online discussion forums: BabyCenter.com and Whattoexpect.com. The questions were taken from the kids health sections of the discussion forums. All questions that had at least one answer was recorded. in addition, each reply from each question was recorded
Replication Data for: The Psychosocial Impact of Exercise as an Intervention for Persons Living With Obesity and Female Infertility: A Rapid Scoping Review and Pilot Study
No full textThis dataset contains the search strategies for the three databases searched - Medline
(ovid), Embase and CINAHL (ebsco) as well as spreadsheets used for data extraction and risk of bias assessment
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
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
An investigation of students' experiences of using virtual learning environments: implications for academic professional development.
Full text linkIntroduction
Because virtual learning environments (VLEs) are amongst the most widely adopted
technologies in higher education, and to justify the widespread investment in VLE
technology, it is important to study patterns of actual student VLE use and student
satisfaction (Naveh et al., 2010). This chapter presents the work of a multi-institutional
group of educational developers who have collaborated since 2008 to gather students’
views on the use of VLEs across higher education in Ireland. The project has now developed
into a longitudinal study, open to participation by any educational institution, and is
currently integrated in the research strategy of the Irish Learning Technology Association
(ILTA). Surveys of students have been undertaken since 2008 using a common set of
questions. Participating institutions, on condition of anonymity, pooled their results for
comparison. The survey data provided each institution with useful information on how
VLE uptake and usage patterns compared with other institutions, in a framework which
prevented abuse of the findings for marketing or public benchmarking. The institutions
who have participated, thus far, represent a diversity of organisational histories and VLE
systems, and results to date include the responses of more than 15,000 students. The
resulting database constitutes the largest collection of information on student experience
related to technology enhanced learning in Ireland. We have presented and published
our methods and some of our earlier results (Cosgrave et al., 2008; Cosgrave et al., 2009;
Cosgrave et al., 2011). In this chapter, we will give an overview of the research methods
and findings, but will focus on the implications for academic professional development
and capacity building. We also describe our working processes as a self-sustaining
collaborative group. Like other chapters in this publication, where the collective voice
influences pedagogical practice, our contribution is driven by the desire to allow the
student voice to inform the continuous improvement of their learning experiences.
This chapter demonstrates how a sustainable collaborative project has contributed to
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Angelica Risquez, University of Limerick; Claire McAvinia, Dublin Institute
of Technology; Damien Raftery, IT Carlow; Fiona O’Riordan, Griffith College
Dublin; Nuala Harding, Athlone Institute of Technology; Robert Cosgrave,
independent professional; Theresa Logan-Phelan, Trinity College Dublin;
Tom Farrelly, Institute of Technology Tralee
Corresponding author: [email protected]
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VLE capacity building, through offering insight from lessons learned across institutions.
The drivers for change at national level will be discussed first with a brief overview of
other existing research on the use of VLEs. Following a summary of research methods,
the findings will be presented and discussed. The main themes we are going to explore
throughout this chapter are the student experience in using VLEs in HE and the implication
of this for academic professional development for lecturers. The results speak to issues
of capacity building in the sector, in terms of the relationship between staff and student
use of the VLE. We will conclude with plans for future research which include the impact
of supporting teaching and learning in higher education.ye
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