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Long-Term Health Care Administrators\u27 Perceptions of Needed Professional Competencies
No full textThe educational preparation that long-term care (LTC) administrators have received is thought to influence their professional socialization. This process influences the perceptions of LTC administrators which then influence their actions. The question raised by this research was as follows: "Does the advanced education preparation of currently licensed LTC administrators in the state of Utah significantly affect their perceptions of what are important competencies for future LTC administrators?" A questionnaire was mailed to 315 LTC administrators licensed in Utah. The results indicated no significant difference in the mean scores between those administrators with baccalaureate or higher degrees and those with less than a baccalaureate degree. Both groups perceived leadership to be the most important competency needed by LTC administrators. Knowledge of trends in health care and quality assurance was the second and third most important competencies indicated needed by both groups. No significant correlations were found between category scores of perceived importance and number of years as a licensed LTC administrator
Marriage record of Barker, Floyd S. and Frye, Ida Jane
No full textMarriage license for Floyd S. Barker and Ida Jane Frye. Lee J. Gibson was the Justice of the Peace
Child mortality in rural Malawi: HIV closes the survival gap between the socio-economic strata
No full textAs HIV-related deaths increase in a population the usual association between low socioeconomic status and child mortality may change, particularly as death rates from other causes decline.METHODS/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: As part of a demographic surveillance system in northern Malawi in 2002-6, covering a population of 32,000, information was collected on socio-economic status of the households. Deaths were classified as HIV/AIDS-related or not by verbal autopsy. Poisson regression models were used to assess the association of socio-economic indicators with all-cause mortality, AIDS-mortality and non-AIDS mortality among children. There were 195 deaths in infants, 109 in children aged 1-4 years, and 38 in children aged 5-15. All-cause child mortality in infants and 1-4 year olds was similar in households with higher and lower socio-economic status. In infants 13% of deaths were attributed to AIDS, and there were no clear trends with socio-economic status for AIDS or non-AIDS causes. For 1-4 year olds 27% of deaths were attributed to AIDS. AIDS mortality was higher among those with better built houses, and lowest in those with income from farming and fishing, whereas non-AIDS mortality was higher in those with worse built houses, lowest in those with income from employment, and decreased with increasing household assets.CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: In this population, since HIV infection among adults was initially more common among the less poor, childhood mortality patterns have changed. The usual gap in survival between the poor and the less poor has been lost, but because the less poor have been disproportionately affected by HIV, rather than because of relative improvement in the survival of the poorest
Lederle Cooperative Study -- 1956-59 -- Studies, OPV -- letter, 1958-07-17
No full textLetter from Markham, Floyd S. to Cox, H. R. dated 1958-07-17.Sabin Collection Fair Use Policy</a
Earhart-Putnam Plane at Harbour Grace
No full textPhotographic postcard of 'The Earhart-Putnam Plane at Harbour Grace,' from Floyd S. Chalmers to Amelia Earhart, thanking her for her talk to the Canadian Club, December 13, 193
D-1763b: 40 West 300 South, Logan, Utah, Floyd S. Bailey residence
No full textD-1763b: Logan, Utah, Floyd S. Bailey residence, 40 W. 300 S
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
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