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Utilization Trends in Medicaid-Reimbursed Doula Services and Out-of-Pocket Cost Savings in Maryland
No full text2024 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting (ARM), June 29 � July 2, 2024, Baltimore. MD.https://www.hilltop.institute/publication/utilization-trends-in-medicaid-reimbursed-doula-services-and-out-of-pocket-cost-savings-in-maryland
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
Violence Exposure and Social Deprivation: Neural Connectivity Correlates and Protective Factors
Get PDFDimensions of early adversity, such as violence exposure and social deprivation, may have different effects associated with socioemotional functioning in the developing brain and different factors may be protective. This dissertation examined the downstream effects of childhood violence exposure and social deprivation in data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study at birth, and ages 1, 3, 5, 9, and 15 years. Study one examined the association between violence exposure, social deprivation, and amygdala-prefrontal cortex white matter connectivity, a crucial circuit for emotion regulation. High violence exposure coupled with high social deprivation related to less amygdala–OFC white matter connectivity. Violence exposure was not associated with white matter connectivity when social deprivation was at mean or low levels (i.e., relatively socially supportive contexts). Therefore, social deprivation may exacerbate the effects of childhood violence exposure on the development of white matter connections involved in emotion processing and regulation. Conversely, social support may buffer against them. Study two investigated the association between violence exposure, social deprivation, and adolescent resting-state functional connectivity in two resting-state networks involved in socioemotional functioning (salience network, default mode network) using a person-specific modeling approach. Childhood violence exposure, but not social deprivation, was associated with reduced adolescent resting-state density of the salience and default mode networks. A data-driven algorithm, blinded to childhood adversity, identified youth with heightened violence exposure based on resting-state connectivity patterns. Childhood violence exposure was associated with adolescent functional connectivity heterogeneity, which may reflect person-specific neural plasticity and should be considered when attempting to understand the impacts of early adversity on the brain. Study three examined whether school connectedness was protective against violence exposure and social deprivation when predicting symptoms of internalizing and externalizing psychopathology and positive function and if school connectedness was uniformly protective against both dimensions of adversity. Results suggest that school connectedness is broadly related to better outcomes and may confer additional protection against social deprivation. These findings highlight the important role that the school environment can play for youth who have been exposed to adversity in other areas of their lives. Additionally, the interactive effect of school connectedness with social deprivation, but not violence exposure, supports modeling risk and resilience processes using dimensional frameworks to better identify specific groups of youth that may benefit from interventions that boost social connectedness at school in future research. Overall, this dissertation provides evidence for the complex and person-specific ways through which risk and resilience relate to development and points to considerations for future research. This research has implications for understanding how dimensions of adversity affect the brain and behavior during development and what factors can be protective, which can inform future neuroscience-informed policy interventions.PhDPsychologyUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/167957/1/lcgayle_1.pd
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
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