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Levels of Hope and Strengths Experienced by Transfer Students in the University Transition Process
No full textThis study explored levels of hope and understanding of personal strengths experienced by College of Agriculture transfer students during the transition from a previous institution into a four-year, west coast university. There is a sizeable amount of research regarding Hope Theory and the traits of Agency and Pathways, as well as the transfer student population and transition process. However, research is limited about the effect of hope and strengths specific to the transfer student demographic.|Many college students experience an academic and social adjustment process when entering a university, but needs of new freshmen students and transfer students vary. Therefore, the research conducted was specific to new transfer students, and considered how strengths influence the Hope Theory traits of Agency and Pathways regarding the university adjustment phase. The study sample consisted of new transfer students in the College of Agriculture at a west coast university. The independent variable is a Strengths-based intervention, the dependent variable is levels of hope, and the control variable is the students not selected for the Strengths-based intervention. Independent t tests were used to compare differences in hope experienced by intervention participants verses non-intervention participants.|Results from the study indicated no relationship between hope and strengths with the transfer student participants. Additional research is recommended to assess a larger transfer population and to conduct a random sampling of intervention participants to determine if the outcome would be influenced differently.|Key words: transfer students, transfer shock, Hope Theory, Agency, Pathways, Clifton Strengths for Students AssessmentProQuest Traditional Publishing Optio
Flower Isoforms Increase Expression in Response to Cellular Stress and Modulate S100 Expression in Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma Cells
No full text2024The second most common cancer in humans, cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC), affects more than 1 million patients a year in the United States. cSCC arise from keratinocytes of the epidermis or hair follicles. Current treatments are limited, especially for pre-cancerous lesions. Homeostasis and differentiation of the skin is regulated through calcium-associated signaling. Better understanding the role of calcium regulation in the epidermis and its relation to the progression of skin cancer could be important in finding new interventions. Protein isoforms called hFWE3 and hFWE4 have been implicated in both calcium signaling and the progression of cancer, both of which are compromised in cSCC, through a process called cell competition. In breast cancer cells, cells expressing hFWE4 isoforms out-compete cells expressing hFWE3 isoforms and promote the progression of tumor growth. We hypothesized that hFWE4 would act similarly in cSCC cells, out-competing cells over-expressing hFWE3 and promoting the progression of cSCC. Interestingly, when hFWE3 and hFWE4 over-expressing cSCC cells were co-cultured together no significant cell competition was observed. RNA-seq analysis revealed that transcript and protein expression of S100A7, S100A8, and S100A9 were decreased in hFWE3 and hFWE4 over-expressing cells. Transcripts for these S100 isoforms were strikingly increased in human cSCC compared to normal skin. Exposure of cSCC cells to stress stimuli including ultraviolet irradiation, serum starvation, reactive oxygen species, or 5-fluorouracil increased hFWE expression, suggesting hFWE may be involved in the cellular stress response. Taken together, these results document a strong correlation between hFWE expression, S100 regulation, and regulation of epidermal differentiation and stress response
'The Speakership and Parliamentary Feminisation: The Emergence and Impact of First Female Speakers'; 'Disrupting Deliberation: Comparing Repertoires of Parliamentary Representation'; and ‘Pageantry as Politics: The State Opening of Parliaments’
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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
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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