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Delay in malaria diagnosis and treatment and its determinants among rural communities of the Oromia special zone, Ethiopia: facility-based cross-sectional study
No full textGeospatial Distributions of Stunting and Determinants among Under-Five Children in Tigray: Using Partial Proportional Odds Model
No full textBackground. Despite improvements globally, child stunting remains one of the serious public health problems in Ethiopia. This study aimed to assess the distribution and determinants of stunting among under-five children in Tigray, Ethiopia. Materials and Methods. A cross-sectional survey was conducted in Tigray from June to July 2019. A total of 11,004 under-five children were included in this study with a stratified two-stage random sampling. The geospatial distribution of stunting among under-five children was determined using GIS and SATSCAN software. A partial proportional odds model was fitted to assess the risk of the child’s nutritional status, and an odds ratio with a 95% confidence interval was used to assess the strength of the association of the independent variables and the child’s nutritional status. Results. The average age of the children was 26.0 (SD = 14.0) months. The overall prevalence of stunting was found to be 41.0%. Western, Southern, South Eastern, Eastern, and Central zones experience a high proportion of stunting. Children having mothers who did not plan their last pregnancy (AOR = 0.90, 95% CI: 0.819–0.995), living in rural areas, and children being male (AOR = 1.33, 95% CI: 1.226–1.433) were more likely to be stunted. The estimated odds of stunting increased significantly with child’s age but decreased with the mother’s age. Children having mothers with primary and secondary education were 13% (AOR = 0.87, 95% CI: 0.787–0.969) and 12% (AOR = 0.88, 95% CI: 0.777–0.998) less likely to be severely stunted than children having mothers with no education. Likewise, children having fathers with secondary and college or above education had 0.76 (AOR = 0.76, 95% CI: 0.672–0.858) and 0.62 (AOR = 0.62, 95% CI: 0.517–0.736) times lower risk of having severely stunting compared with the children having fathers with no education. Conclusion. The prevalence of stunting in 6–59-month-old children from Tigray was unacceptably high. Potential factors associated with child stunting were parental educational level, child sex, child age, maternal age, place of residence, and zone. Thus, improving parental education and avoidance of early marriage are recommended in order to reduce the prevalence of stunting. Moreover, place and zone-specific interventions should be also introduced to tackle differences in the burden of stunting among children aged 6–59 months from Tigray
Magnitude of occupational exposure to bagasse dust and associated factors among Metehara Sugarcane Factory workers, east Shoa, Ethiopia
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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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