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A Social Practice Theory Perspective to Exploring the Lived Experiences of Physical Activity in People with Type-2 Diabetes in Urban Nigeria
Full text linkThis thesis aims to gain a greater understanding of the social, material and historical processes underlying physical activity participation in the lived experiences of people with type-2 diabetes in Urban Nigeria. Using social practice theory and life-course perspective as guiding theoretical frameworks, a qualitative narrative inquiry was conducted with thirty-five people with type-2 diabetes receiving outpatient care at the University College Hospital Ibadan, Oyo state, Nigeria. Through a multi-modal research design, data were collected in three phases: Firstly, a narrative interview study was conducted to obtain biographical accounts of how people’s relationship with physical activity has evolved over their life course. Secondly, participants took part in a one-week activity tracking and diary study to capture their daily life patterns of activity. Thirdly, the diary study was followed up with a visual elicitation interview co-explore their captured data to gain deeper access to the context of their daily lives and how physical activity fits within this context. Additionally, an informal contextual inquiry involving observations and discussions with healthcare professionals was conducted to help build a bigger picture of the context in which people lived.
Four separate analyses of the research data were performed. The first involved a case-based narrative analysis of six of the thirty-five participants’ data to understand the nuances and peculiarities of their individual lived experiences. This was followed by a cluster analysis of participants’ daily activities to identify groups of participants with similar patterns of activities. The third included a thematic analysis of participants’ experiences of physical activity over the life course. Lastly, a separate thematic analysis was conducted to understand participants’ knowledge about physical activity as part of their type-2 diabetes management.
The cluster analysis of people with type-2 diabetes’ daily activities identified six participant sub-groups, with members of each group having similar patterns of activities. Physical activity patterns also varied across the life course and were strongly implicated in processes including changing social roles within the family life trajectory, transitions to retirement, ageing, type-2 diabetes diagnosis, gender norms, absence of an exercise culture, and negative age stereotypes.
The research makes three contributions. Firstly, it makes an empirical contribution by providing an in-depth multi-layered account of the socio-historical dynamics of physical activity in the lived experiences of people with type-2 diabetes in an urban Nigerian context. Secondly, the research offers a methodological contribution by demonstrating how combining SPT with concepts from life-course perspectives can facilitate a relational and temporal approach to exploring the lived experiences of physical activity in people with Type-2 diabetes in Urban Nigeria. Thirdly, the research findings contribute to the growing theoretical debates that physical activity engagement is not a static or linear behaviour but a dynamic, ongoing process of change that encompasses an interplay of transitions, turning points, and social interactions in people’s lives
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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