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The Protean Career Orientation as predictor of career outcomes: evaluation of incremental validity and mediation effects
No full textA protean career orientation is assumed to be beneficial for career development but researchers have only recently started to empirically evaluate the concept. Conducting two studies based on three independent samples of university students and working professionals in Germany, we address issues of concurrent validity, predictive incremental validity and mechanisms linking the protean orientation to career outcomes. The first study showed that in a sample of 104 German employees different measures of the protean career orientation all correlated highly, but not identically, to a range of work and career attitudes. Using bootstrapping analysis, a second study with a six-month prospective examination among 419 German university students and a cross-sectional analysis among 526 German employees showed that a protean career orientation predicts proactive career behaviors and career satisfaction beyond a proactive disposition and core self-evaluations, respectively. Moreover, the protean career orientation was a significant mediator of these two personality constructs on both career outcomes. Cumulatively, the studies enrich our understanding of how and when a protean career orientation is related to important career outcomes
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
Beruf aus Berufung? – Ein Überblick über die Forschung
No full textViele suchen nach einer Berufung oder versuchen, aus ihrer Berufung einen Beruf zu machen. Was zeichnet Menschen mit einer Berufung aus? Ist eine Berufung etwas Positives oder hat sie auch Schattenseiten? Und welche Implikationen gibt es für die Karriereberatung und das Personalmanagement
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
The narrator's tale: Christa Wolf and the reader in the text.
No full textThis dissertation examines, first, the early life and writings of Christa Wolf, and second, three major narratives, with the goal of showing how narrative strategies evolve in response to a set of historical conditions. It offers an update on knowledge of Christa Wolf, her writings, and the reception of her work, as well as an explanation of Wolf's success with a literary style of ambiguity and ambivalence. Wolf developed an ambiguous double language in response to a specific set of political and historical conditions. The device of the narrator as reader in the text anticipates the hopes and fears of implied readers. This narrator is thereby responsible for introducing questions and doubts about her "subject" without taking a position or implying that the author has one. In the first three descriptive historical chapters, an analysis of Wolf's early political book reviews sketches a picture of the author as "parteiliche Leser" and critic. After Wolf abandoned this first career, her early narrative writing was influenced by ideological beliefs and patterns (Moskauer Novelle, 1961; Der geteilte Himmel, 1963). This comprehensive study traces the evolution of Wolf's writing from the early didactic reviews and ideological novels to the later dialogic narratives which have won the author such acclaim (Nachdenken uber Christa T.; Kindheitsmuster, 1976; and Kassandra, 1983). Through an analysis of the literary device of the reader in the text, I demonstrate the function of the narrator in anticipating the reception of the work and document the historicity of specific narrative strategies.PhDComparative LiteratureUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/104315/1/9513377.pdfDescription of 9513377.pdf : Restricted to UM users only
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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