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Alien Registration- Jacobsen, Karl J. (Rockland, Knox County)
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Psychosocial functioning, emotion understanding and social skills in hard of hearing preschool children
Get PDFBarn med hørselstap er i risiko for forsinket utvikling på flere områder. Tidlig diagnostisering og oppfølging har bidratt til bedre utviklingsbetingelser, men vi vet ikke like mye om barn med milde og moderate tap, som de med større tap. I tillegg vet vi mindre om psykososial utvikling enn vi vet om utvikling av språk og kommunikasjon, spesielt hos førskolebarn.
I denne studien ble 35 4-5-åringer med høreapparater inkludert. De fleste hadde milde eller moderate hørselstap og brukte hovedsakelig norsk tale, noen med tegnstøtte. Psykososial fungering, emosjonsforståelse, sosiale ferdigheter og talespråklig ordforråd ble kartlagt. En gruppe på 180 barn med normal hørsel, hentet fra den longitudinelle populasjonsstudien Tidlig trygg i Trondheim, utgjorde kontrollgruppen.
Barn med høreapparater viste flere tegn til psykososiale vansker enn barna med normal hørsel, spesielt gjaldt dette gutter. Barn med tidlig diagnostiserte hørselstap hadde færre vansker. Selv om barn med høreapparater hadde svakere ordforråd enn barn med normal hørsel, var sammenhengen mellom ordforråd og psykososiale vansker svak. Emosjonsforståelsen til barn med hørselstap var like god som barn med normal hørsel. Foreldrene til barn med hørseltap var mer presise når de skulle anslå barnets emosjonsforståelse enn det foreldre til barn med normal hørsel var, og høyere presisjon predikerte bedre emosjonsforståelse hos barna. Sosiale ferdigheter hos barn med moderate og alvorlige tap var på linje med barn med normal hørsel, mens barn med milde eller ensidige tap var betydelig forsinket. Gode sosiale ferdigheter hadde sammenheng med tidlig høreapparattilpasning, men ikke med ordforråd.
Kort oppsummert tyder funnene på at barn med høreapparater er i risiko for vansker innenfor noen områder av psykososial utvikling, allerede i førskolealder. Språkferdigheter, i form av ordforråd, kunne ikke forklare disse vanskene. Tidlig diagnose og intervensjon kan forebygge psykososiale vansker, også for de barna med milde eller ensidige tap.
Summary:
Children who are deaf and hard of hearing are at risk for developing delays or difficulties in many areas. Early hearing detection and intervention have improved the developmental conditions for deaf and hard of hearing children as a group, but we know less about the hard of hearing children than we do about children with more severe degrees of hearing loss. Moreover, psychosocial development has received limited attention compared to language and communication, especially in preschool age.
Therefore, we investigated a group of 35 children aged 4-5 years, with hearing aids. The majority had mild or moderate hearing loss and all used spoken Norwegian as their main language, some supported with signs. Psychosocial functioning, emotion understanding and social skills were assessed, as well as spoken vocabulary. 180 children with typical hearing, derived from the longitudinal population study Trondheim Early Secure Study, were used as a comparison group.
Hard of hearing children showed more signs of psychosocial problems than children with typical hearing, especially boys. Low age at identification of the hearing loss predicted better psychosocial functioning, whereas degree of hearing loss and vocabulary scores did not. As for emotion understanding, hard of hearing children performed similarly as their peers with typical hearing. The parents of hard of hearing children were more accurate when estimating their child’s emotion understanding; and this accuracy was associated with the child’s actual performance. Social skills development was delayed in children with unilateral and mild bilateral loss, but not in the children with moderate to severe loss. Higher scores on social skills were associated with lower age at amplification, but not with vocabulary scores.
Taken together, our results suggest that hard of hearing children, even those with mild and unilateral hearing loss, are at risk for difficulties related to some areas of psychosocial development already in preschool age. These difficulties cannot be attributed to vocabulary delays. Early detection and intervention may prevent adverse psychosocial development, even for children with mild or unilateral hearing loss
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
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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