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SMM893389 Supplemental Material - Supplemental material for Semiparametric isotonic regression analysis for risk assessment under nested case-control and case-cohort designs
No full textSupplemental material, SMM893389 Supplemental Material for Semiparametric isotonic regression analysis for risk assessment under nested case-control and case-cohort designs by Wen Li, Ruosha Li, Ziding Feng and Jing Ning in Statistical Methods in Medical Research</p
Supplemental material for Copas-like selection model to correct publication bias in systematic review of diagnostic test studies
No full textSupplementarl material for Copas-like selection model to correct publication bias in systematic review of diagnostic test studies by Jin Piao, Yulun Liu, Yong Chen and Jing Ning in Statistical Methods in Medical Research</p
Adaptation of the medical ethics teaching questionnaire for the use of Taiwanese medical students: A developmental study / Lee Jing Ning
No full textMedical ethics is among one of the most important competencies in medical
education and formal physicians' training. In the past decades, medical ethics education
has become a priority within medical education institutions worldwide. In Taiwan,
medical ethics was included in the undergraduate medical curricula since 1995. However,
students� view upon graduation revealed that they were still lacked confidence about
beginning their residency program due to limited understanding of ethical values. Taiwan,
as a country with unique cultural belief in the traditional Confucian principles that
emphasizes the virtue of �filial piety� and family cohesion in medical decision-making is
lacking Taiwanese studies that can represent students� view on current undergraduate
ethics education.
However, most of the existing survey instruments found in previous literature
were written in English language. As for Taiwan that had showed "low proficiency" in
the English First's (EF's) global English Proficiency Index (EPI), the high English
proficiency level required to complete these survey instrument may cause reading
difficulties among Taiwanese students. The research objectives of this study were to
translate and adapt the Traditional Chinese version of a validated medical ethics education
questionnaire for the use of medical students in Taiwan.
The Tahra et al.�s (2017) questionnaire was selected due to its comprehensiveness
in exploring students� preferences toward medical ethics education. The questionnaire
with a total of 69 items was translated according to a simplified version of the Functional
Assessment of Chronic Illness in Therapy (FACIT) translation methodology, including
forward and back translation, comparing the back translation to source, expert reviewing,
and cognitive debriefing.
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The translations were carefully revised when they revealed difficulty in
understanding or showed high possibilities of causing misunderstanding. We also
identified numerous challenges at the stage of expert reviews, including influence of
idiomatic phrases, wording mistakes, subtle semantic difference of possible translations,
morphology of language, and the ambiguity of translated Items. At the stage of cognitive
interviews, respondents reflected that further interpretation is needed to better understand
some of the questions, while some questions were asked to be deleted due to repetition or
irrationality.
This study completed the first translation of an authoritative English version of
medical ethics teaching questionnaire to its Traditional Chinese version following a
multiple steps translation methodology to ensure that the translated items are conceptually
equivalent to its English source and are culturally adapted to the Taiwanese environment.
The availability of this translation version will increase related research among the
Taiwanese healthcare educators. Future work including psychometric testing on the
translated questionnaire among the general population of Taiwan was suggested to create
a final version of the survey instrument
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
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