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A quantitative evaluation of the impact of two outreach workers within a special school environment
No full textReport providing a quantitative evaluation of the impact of two outreach workers within a special school environment
Bringing back the body into positive psychology: the theory of corporeal posttraumatic growth in breast cancer survivorship
Full text linkObjective: Posttraumatic growth (PTG) is the phenomenon of surpassing levels of functioning than which existed before a traumatic event occurred. The objective of this study was to assess how the body may have had an influence on the facilitation, and as an outcome, of PTG. Methods: 83 female breast cancer survivors, 5 years post cancer diagnosis, were interviewed on their long-term experience of physical ac- tivity engagement. Inductive thematic analysis was used in order to ascertain whether or not there were any serendipitous expressions of posttraumatic growth. Results: 24% (n = 20) of the study mentioned ex- periencing some form of PTG, including both generic and corporeal specific domains. Of those that re- ported PTG, 70% were from the original physical activity intervention group indicating potential links between activity participation during cancer treatment and long term PTG. Discussion: The results sup- port the theoretical viewpoint that recovery from physical illness may have a unique PTG journey in comparison to more cognitive/external sources of trauma. Conclusions: This is the first study to qualita- tively collect longitudinal data from a large and unique sample on the experience of PTG following breast cancer survivorship. Furthermore, the author has coined this new addition of a more embodied experience of PTG, the theory of ‘Corporeal Posttraumatic Growth’ and presents suggestions for future research
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
Understanding the experience of posttraumatic growth following life threatening physical illness
Full text linkDiverging from the pathological focus of 1950's psychology, positive psychologists have concentrated on the potential for people to grow and enhance their quality of life following adversity, a phenomenon coined as "posttraumatic growth" (PTG) (Tedeschi & Calhoun, 1996). Although there has been significant advancement in PTG research, there are limitations in the current models, theories and methods of assessment. Therefore, the aim of this thesis was to attain an in-depth insight into the nature of PTG following breast cancer diagnosis using interpretative phenomenological analysis. The participants were ten female breast cancer survivors who were self selected as having experienced posttraumatic growth, as well as participated in an exercise programme during their cancer treatment (Mutrie et al., 2007). They participated in one open-ended interview at their one year follow-up, the primary focus being to understand their experience of PTG. The analyses yielded seven main themes: the body, exercise class, existential re-evaluation, self-identity, philosophy change, society and narrative from growth-to-growth. Four of these have been extensively reported within the literature, thereby justifying the decision to further analyse the themes of 'narrative from growth-to-growth', 'exercise class' and 'the body' as they contributed the most to the expansion of PTG theory. The results suggest a reconfiguration of the Transformational Model of growth (Tedeschi & Calhoun, 2006) in terms of its proposed temporal sequences of initiation of growth and exclusivity upon rumination. Additionally, two other themes suggest that the facilitation of growth, and certain PTG outcomes, were the result of both the women's participation in an exercise class and a reconnection to their own body; previously these two elements have not been linked. Overall, the thesis provides in-depth and novel additions to the PTG research within illness related trauma. Future research could extend the findings to develop more definitive links between thought processes, physical activity interventions and the body in the experience of PTG.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo
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
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