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Encountering risk: 'everyday' experiences of outdoor adventure education instructors
No full textThis thesis is a qualitative study of the lived experience of risk in outdoor adventure education and was guided by the following research question: How do outdoor adventure education instructors experience everyday risks and make decisions in their work? Existing research and professional literature on this topic is largely quantitative based and has tended to focus on accident trends and patterns. As such this study contributes to the current body of knowledge by expanding this topic through the use of qualitative methods. Specifically this thesis departs from the prevailing positivist and post-positivist approaches, and employs a phenomenological orientation to take a constructionist approach to risk in which the everyday experiences of outdoor adventure education (OAE) instructors are given a voice. The insights found in their stories enrich the current body of knowledge about risk and decisionmaking in OAE. A unique aspect of the study involved a critical review of a wide range of risk research and literature that was sourced from both inside and outside of OAE. This was done in an attempt to ascertain where common and taken-for-granted ideas, concepts and practices relating to risk in OAE have their origins and, in some cases, raised questions about their suitability for use in OAE. This critical review also prepared the researcher for the datagathering phase of the research. In the study phase of the research a series of three in depth 'phenomenological interviews' (Seidman, 1998) were completed with each of three participants who had an extensive employment history as instructors in OAE in Asia. These nine interviews in total resulted in a considerable amount of 'experiential data' (van Manen, 1990) which was coded, analysed and thematised to produce research texts (van Manen, 1990) about the phenomenon under investigation. An investigation into the lived experience of risk is enlightening as OAE instructors usually take a duel approach to risk. Risks to program participants are both managed for safety, but are also intentionally used as a form of pedagogy. As the research was conducted in Asia this thesis also contributes to the body of OAE knowledge from this region as it explores a phenomenon (OAE) which has both international and local dimensions. Four themes emerged from this study. The most significant of these is the use of folk models of risk and decision-making by OAE instructors when engaged in their daily practice. The other themes identified were the role of human subjectivity in the lived experience of risk; experience, risk and judgment; and, finally that of risk as a form of pedagogy
Encountering risk: 'everyday' experiences of outdoor adventure education instructors
No full textThis thesis is a qualitative study of the lived experience of risk in outdoor adventure education and was guided by the following research question: How do outdoor adventure education instructors experience everyday risks and make decisions in their work? Existing research and professional literature on this topic is largely quantitative based and has tended to focus on accident trends and patterns. As such this study contributes to the current body of knowledge by expanding this topic through the use of qualitative methods. Specifically this thesis departs from the prevailing positivist and post-positivist approaches, and employs a phenomenological orientation to take a constructionist approach to risk in which the everyday experiences of outdoor adventure education (OAE) instructors are given a voice. The insights found in their stories enrich the current body of knowledge about risk and decisionmaking in OAE. A unique aspect of the study involved a critical review of a wide range of risk research and literature that was sourced from both inside and outside of OAE. This was done in an attempt to ascertain where common and taken-for-granted ideas, concepts and practices relating to risk in OAE have their origins and, in some cases, raised questions about their suitability for use in OAE. This critical review also prepared the researcher for the datagathering phase of the research. In the study phase of the research a series of three in depth 'phenomenological interviews' (Seidman, 1998) were completed with each of three participants who had an extensive employment history as instructors in OAE in Asia. These nine interviews in total resulted in a considerable amount of 'experiential data' (van Manen, 1990) which was coded, analysed and thematised to produce research texts (van Manen, 1990) about the phenomenon under investigation. An investigation into the lived experience of risk is enlightening as OAE instructors usually take a duel approach to risk. Risks to program participants are both managed for safety, but are also intentionally used as a form of pedagogy. As the research was conducted in Asia this thesis also contributes to the body of OAE knowledge from this region as it explores a phenomenon (OAE) which has both international and local dimensions. Four themes emerged from this study. The most significant of these is the use of folk
models of risk and decision-making by OAE instructors when engaged in their daily practice. The other themes identified were the role of human subjectivity in the lived experience of risk; experience, risk and judgment; and, finally that of risk as a form of pedagogy
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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