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A Family of Experiments to Evaluate the Effects of Mindfulness on Software Engineering Students: The MetaMind Dataset
Full text linkContext: Software Engineering students are often excellent developers although they may occasionally encounter difficulties with certain tasks such as conceptual modelling, in which mental clarity plays an essential role. With several years of experience in practising mindfulness (a meditation technique that calm the mind to see with clarity), we hypothesise that several weeks of continued mindfulness practise may increase the performance of students regarding conceptual modelling since the proven benefits of mindfulness include increased concentration and mental clarity. In order to ascertain this hypothesis, a family of controlled experiments, involving 130 students, has been carried out at the University of Seville over three consecutive academic years. Subsequent to the analysis of the individual experiments, a meta—analysis was conducted. Aim: This chapter helps understand how various datasets have been generated and traces their evolution across the family of experiments and the resulting meta—analysis. Not only does the process include the integration of datasets into a single target dataset with the complete set of data, but it also improves the structure of the dataset and adapts it to several statistical analysis tools. Method: Data collection was manually carried out during the individual experiments by means of gathering the scores of the students attained in conceptual modelling exercises. In order to obtain the complete but also simple dataset of the family of experiments, certain dataset columns were necessarily selected and renamed. New relevant information was also added to form a conclusive meta—analysis. The dataset was adapted to the type and format of SPSS for the execution of a further analysis, complementary to the main study in R. The MetaMind dataset is the set of datasets involved in the present research. The MetaMind dataset has become a helpful resource for the independent reproducibility of the results, to ascertain the evolution of the process across a family of experiments, and to enable external replications of the controlled experiment.Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación HORATIO (RTI2018-101204–B–C21)Junta de Andalucía APOLO (US-1264651)Junta de Andalucía EKIPMENTPLUS (P18–FR–2895
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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