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Classification of professional values based on motivational content: An exploratory study on Italian Adolescents
Full text linkThis study applies a multidimensional scaling (MSD) technique to investigate the structural validity of the Work Values Inventory for Adolescents with a sample of Italian students. The MSD results indicated the presence of two underlying orthogonal dimensions: individuality versus sociality and conservation versus exploration. Implications for future research are also discussed. © 2011 The Author(s)
Preferences for ancient and modern art museums: Visitor experiences and personality characteristics
No full textQuesta ricerca ha due scopi principali. Il primo è quello di replicare ed eventualmente estendere i risultati ottenuti in uno studio precedente, in cui gli autori hanno trovato che i visitatori di musei di arte antica conducevano la visita con l'obiettivo primario di acquisire comprensione e conoscenza, mentre i visitatori dei musei d'arte moderna assumevano un approccio che era soprattutto emotivo e di ricerca del piacere. Il secondo obiettivo si riferisce a studi che dimostrano che le persone che preferiscono l'arte astratta presentano alti livelli di tratti della personalità nelle dimensioni "Apertura all'esperienza" e "Sensation Seeking", rispetto a chi preferisce l'arte figurativa. Questo studio indaga questi due tratti di personalità per persone che preferiscono visitare i musei di arte antica rispetto a quelli di arte moderna. I dati emersi hanno confermato i risultati precedenti: gli aspetti emozionali legati alla visita erano rilevanti per i visitatori del museo d'arte moderna, mentre un approccio più cognitivo basato sull'apprendimento caratterizzava i visitatori di arte antica. Per quanto riguarda i tratti della personalità, non si è riscontrata nessuna differenza tra i due gruppi per quanto riguarda la dimensione "apertura all'esperienza"; sono state rilevate invece delle differenze sulla dimensione "Sensation Seeking"; i visitatori dei musei d'arte moderna hanno raggiunto punteggi più elevati rispetto ai visitatori del museo d'arte antica.This research has two main purposes. The first is to replicate and possibly to extend the results obtained in a previous study, where the authors found that visitors to the ancient art museum conducted their visit with the primary aim of acquiring understanding and knowledge, while modern art museum visitors conducted their visit with an approach that was primarily emotional and pleasure-seeking. The second purpose relates to studies showing that people who prefer abstract art present higher levels on personality traits like “Openness to Experience” and “Sensation Seeking,” compared to people who prefer realistic art. This study investigates these two personality traits for people who favor visiting museums of ancient rather than modern art. Results confirmed previous findings that emotional aspects related to the visit were relevant for modern art museum visitors, while a more cognitive approach based on learning characterized ancient art museum visitors. Concerning personality traits, no difference was found between the two museum groups on the “Openness to Experience” dimension; differences were found on the “Sensation Seeking” trait; modern art museum visitors attained higher scores as compared to ancient art museum visitors
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
Un metodo per l'analisi simultanea di più matrici di dati quadrate asimmetriche
No full textAlcuni metodi per il trattamento simultaneo di più matrici di dati quadrate asimmetriche sono stati in passato proposti nello Scaling Multidimens1onale e nell'Analisi Fattoriale. Tali metodi consentono di analizzare l'asimmetria per diversi tipi di dati (matrici di prossimità, tabelle di contingenza, ecc.) attraverso particolari modelli di distanza euclidea ponderata o in componenti principali, o anche con approcci non basati su rappresentazioni geometriche. Essi costituiscono delle generalizzazioni di metodi proposti per il trattamento di una singola matrice e si possono utilizzare con scopi prettamente esplorativi o anche successivamente a un'analisi di tipo confermativo per rappresentare graficamente le stime o i residui dei modelli statistici utilizzati (cfr. ad es. Bove, 1992 e Bove e Critchley, 1993 per il caso di una singola matrice). Un problema centrale per i metodi grafici è quello della difficoltà di analisi contemporanea delle diverse rappresentazioni fornite che spesso rende complessa la.ricostruzione dell'informazione presente nei dati. Il metodo che si propone in questo lavoro ha come principale obiettivo quello di fornire nuovi tipi di rappresentazioni grafiche dei dati sfruttando la decomposizione unica delle matrici quadrate nelle due componenti simmetrica ed emisimmetrica. ..
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