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Introduction to nursing, midwifery, and person-centred care
No full textThe professional disciplines of nursing and midwifery are characterised by the application of evidence-based knowledge in the holistic care of people in wellness and in illness. The primary goal is to maximise wellbeing in order to optimise the quality of people’s lives. It is the needs of the person being cared for, rather than any institution or profession, that determine the responses and activities undertaking by the nurse or the midwife. Care activities may be directed toward promoting or preserving wellness, or toward restoring health and equilibrium after a crisis or illness, as well as facilitating person-centred care to the dying. These activities range in complexity from care that involves sophisticated technology and machinery to simple being present in a human relationship. The information in this text provides the foundation for the essentials of care delivered within many different health care environments
Introduction
Full text linkThe large number of submissions to and excellent attendance at the Ground-based
and Airborne Telescopes IV conference reflects the strong and growing
interest in the astronomical and engineering communities. More than 250 papers
were submitted to this year's conference, the largest number in the series' history.
This year's conference included 28 oral sessions and two poster sessions
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
The social meaning of Brisbane City Hall
No full textThree major periods of Brisbane's history were selected for examination of the social meaning of Brisbane City Hall: 1908 to 1920 – during which many debates about a 'new town hall' occurred, 1921 to 1930 – the construction phase, and the 1930s – City Hall's first decade of public use. This study shows that Brisbane City Hall is a central place where multiple social meanings have been made by residents and visitors. A broad range of views about City Hall existed during the periods studied; views and meanings that are not captured by its epithets or covered adequately by the existing literature. This thesis is an introductory study of the social meaning of Brisbane City Hall – what was said about it, how it was used and its significance to Brisbane's residents and visitors
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
Introduction to nursing, midwifery and person-centred care
No full textNursing is generally held to mean caring for patients across the life span, while midwifery tends to focus on the childbearing woman with a particular emphasis on supporting healthy pregnancy and birth. Despite this difference, the two disciplines have many features in common. This text provides the foundation information in the areas where these two disciplines overlap. Although there are many commonalities, there are also differences between the disciplines in terms of their professional identity and ideology, scope of practice and the technical skills required. This text considers the broad scope of professional practice of each discipline through its central focus on the person
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
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