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THEOLOGICAL AND PROSECUTORIAL JUDGMENTS AND DEMENTIA
No full textThe objective of the study was to compare the ways in which young people, older people, and older people with dementia cognitively integrated three factors (intention, consequence, and apology) when making prosecutorial judgments (prosecution and revenge) and theological judgments (resentment and reconciliation). The study used an experimental design. The participants were 34 young people (Mage = 22.12, SD = 3.44), 36 older people (Mage = 66.03, SD = 10.21), and 18 older people with dementia (Mage = 75, SD = 10.06). For each moral judgment, the participants were confronted with 12 scenarios built from the combination of the three factors. A set of analyses of variance (ANOVAs) with repeated measures were performed on data. Whatever the judgment, older people with dementia differed from young people and older people with regard to the number of factors considered. Young and older participants used the three information cues (intent, consequence, and apologies) for the four judgment tasks (prosecution, revenge, reconciliation, and resentment) while older people with dementia gave greater weight to intention. In contrast to young and older people, older people with dementia processed prosecutorial judgments and theological judgments in the same manner. The cognitive impairment does not allow older people with dementia to differentiate moral judgments into two categories. Dementia has a negative influence on process of information integration in moral judgment. This may be useful for clinical practice – caregivers
process of information integration in old people with dementia: impact of Physical Activity
No full textPhysical activity enhances cognitive performance and reduces the progression of dementia symptoms (Liu et al., 2020; Swinnen et al., 2021; Henskens et al., 2018). The aim of this research is to investigate the impact of physical activity on the judgment processes of older people with dementia. The aim is to assess the effect of physical activity on their information integration abilities.
Three groups of old people participated in this study. An "active" group, consisting of older people with dementia (N=9), received three "throwing training" sessions per week. An "inactive" group, also comprising old people with dementia (N=7), did not engage in any physical activity. Healthy old people (N=13) formed the control group who conducted the assessment only once at T0 (0 months) to obtain baseline results. At 3-month intervals, using a judgment scale, the judgment of success in throwing tasks combining three pieces of information (in cognito) was assessed for the two other groups. The same scenarios were presented in real-life conditions (in vivo) to the "active" group, who performed these throws. Comparative statistical analyses were conducted at T0, T3, and T6.
The study revealed a difference in judgment processes between old people with dementia and healthy old people. It also demonstrated a difference in judgment processes between old people with dementia who received physical activity and those who did not. Training in real-life throwing scenarios (in vivo) facilitated information integration in the judgment task (in cognito).
Physical practice positively affects judgment processes. It preserved information integration ability in old people with dementia.<br
The effect of motivation on cognitive rules when deciding whether to adhere to a prescription of adapted physical activity
No full textThe objective of the present study was to test the impact of the motivational state on the information integration process, as understood through information integration theory and reversal theory. Participants were confronted with four sets of 12 cards built according to a within-subject design and three factors: Reimbursement, Medical follow-up, and the Environment. Each set of cards corresponded to one of four somatic metamotivational states: telic, paratelic, conformist, or negativistic. For each card, the participants indicated their degree of adherence to an adapted physical activity programme. Four separate repeated-measures analysis of variance were conducted on the data from each motivational condition. Depending on the somatic motivational states, individuals used an additive rule or a conjunctive rule. Our investigation extended previous research on the effect of motivation on information integration. Our novel results open up a vast field for further fundamental research in several areas of social cognition.<br
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
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