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Rådslå om det som berör dig. Om möjligheterna till deliberativa processer inom ramen för dagens brukarverksamhet.
No full textDeliberative politics offers a new and exiting way of overcoming the problems that the western democracy of today is facing. A lot of research in the most recent years have had the goal to replace the representative democracy with a decision-making frame built on decentralization and deliberation. The goal for this essay is to create a framework for local decision-making, based on deliberativ norms, that could work as a complement to the representative democracy instead of replacing it. During the recent years the so-called "brukarråd"; councils for the most common users of one special public service, has been a new way for the local government to get in direct contact with those who are most affected by changes and developments in the specific area of the public administration. In this essay I argue for that these councils should be designed so that they could house deliberative processes. After creating a model for the possible way of designing the "brukarråd" I compare the framework with the system that exists today. In this way there is a possibility to point out if there is a way to deepen the democracy within the already existing system
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
Röster om patientsäkerhetskultur : Analys av öppna svar från Västra Götalandsregionens patientsäkerhetskulturmätning 2013
No full textNordic School of Public Health, NHV, har på uppdrag av Västra Götalandsregi-onen genomfört en analys av de öppna svaren från den undersökning av patient-säkerhetskulturen som genomfördes i regionen under våren 2013.Totalt omfattar studien drygt 3 600 öppna svar som kodats i sex övergri-pande grupper och 69 underliggande grupperingar. För att öka förståelsen av materialet har utgångspunkten varit de kategorier för bakomliggande orsaker som används vid händelse och riskanalyser i hälso- och sjukvården.Totalt valde knappt 19 procent av de som besvarade enkäten att lämna någon form av öppen kommentar. De som gav en skriftlig kommentar kring patientsäkerhet och förbättringsförslag för en säkrare vård hade generellt en mer kritisk inställning till patientsäkerheten i verksamheten än den genomsnittlige respondenten i undersökningen. Detta syns även i de öppna kommentarerna där en ytterst liten del av de öppna svaren ger en positiv bild av verksamhetens patientsäkerhet.Det stora flertalet av de öppna svaren berör förbättringsmöjligheter och patientsäkerhetsrisker inom vårdens omgivning och organisation och kommu-nikation och information i verksamheten. Koderna i dessa grupper berör exem-pelvis personalbrist, arbetsbelastning, arbetsmiljö, ledarskap, kommunikation med klinik och verksamhetsledning, intern kommunikation i verksamheten och brister kring återföringar av rapporterade avvikelser.Patientsäkerhetsproblem och organisationskultur är vanligtvis lokala feno-men och rapporten ger i första hand en övergripande bild av samtliga öppna svar i undersökningen. Analysen visar också en hel del återkommande kommentarer som mycket väl kan användas för att övergripande utveckla och förbättra säker-hetskulturen i regionens verksamheter. I materialet framkommer att många medarbetare fortfarande inte upplever att det systematiska arbetssättet kring patientsäkerhet har genomförts fullt ut. Vidare finns det, i samtliga större yrkesgrupper, en återkommande oro över att resursbrister och ett högt patienttryck skapar situationer där patientsäkerheten nedprioriteras till förmån för produktion. Fortsatt fokus på att utveckla en läran-deorganisation, öka chefsnärvaron i det dagliga arbetet och att öppet diskutera verksamhetens mål och uppdrag är aspekter som efterfrågas av medarbetarna. Vetenskapligt finns det också god evidens för att detta är arbetssätt som de facto skapar ett bättre arbetsklimat med ökat fokus på säker vår
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