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Identifying High-Performing Texas Counties for Strategic Enrollment Growth
No full textThis project identifies high-performing Texas counties where Texas State University can strategically expand recruitment efforts by analyzing county-level SAT/ACT academic performance and university enrollment patterns. Using composite opportunity scores that weight academic readiness (40%), market size (30%), TXST's current market share (20%), and test participation (10%), we classified 229 Texas counties into five strategic tiers, revealing 6 "Prime Target" counties with strong academics, large student populations, and low TXST presence that represent the highest-value recruitment opportunities
Dataset in support of the thesis 'Traits, species and communities in planktic foraminifera during Plio-Pleistocene climate change'
No full textThis dataset contains:
Trait measurements data of planktic foraminifera species Menardella limbata and Menardella multicamerata (925_Menardellids_Traits.csv)
Trait measurements of planktic foraminifera species Menardella limbata and Menardella multicamerata (925_Menardellids_Traits_Images.zip)
Planktic foraminifera species last occurrence data at Site 925 (925_Species_Last_Occurrences.csv)
Planktic foraminifera species assemblage counts data at Site 925 (925_Assemblages.csv)
Planktic foraminifera species trait measurements data at Site 925 (925_Traits.csv)
Planktic foraminifera species trait measurements data at Site 925 (925_Traits_Images.zip)
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The (in)consistency of links across traits, species and communities in planktic foraminifera during Plio-Pleistocene climate change
No full textThis thesis aims to disentangle the roles of biotic and abiotic factors in driving extinction and shaping community dynamics in planktic foraminifera during the Plio-Pleistocene, a period characterised by a notable decline in species richness between 3.9 and 1.032 million years ago. Isolating biotic factors from environmental influences on planktic foraminiferal biodiversity remains challenging due to the complexity of environmental influence, difficulties in detecting biotic interactions from the fossil record, and the varying significance of measurements, even with large sample sizes. These factors, along with long-term evolutionary adaptations, make it difficult to clearly separate biotic influences from environmental pressures.First, the thesis addresses the meaning of species and the challenges of their identification in deep time using Menardella limbata and Menardella multicamerata as exemplar case studies. Traditional methods, relying on qualitative traits, often lead to overlapping descriptions that complicate species differentiation rather than an evidence-based approach. Having defined what I mean by species in this chapter, this thesis further explores long-term ecological dynamics through extinction events.Analysing 19 species extinctions of planktic foraminifera, the research uses Hill numbers to assess changes in community profiles across three extinction phases (pre-extinction, imminent-extinction, and post-extinction). Findings reveal how global temperature correlates with community structure differently in each phase, showing a loss of climate control closer to removing a constituent species. The final chapter extends this approach to examine the role of trait diversity in community dynamics during the same extinction events as the previous chapter. By integrating morphometric data from over 15,000 specimens, the research assesses how species size distributions impact key community metrics, offering insights into how trait diversity correlates with biodiversity dynamics and species identifications.Overall, the thesis highlights the necessity of integrating trait, species, and community dynamics to comprehensively understand biodiversity changes. It provides valuable insights into the complex interactions driving ecological shifts and suggests directions for future research in understanding long-term biodiversity patterns
Neurodiversity: An Important Axis of Diversity in Ocean Sciences
Full text linkNeurodiversity refers to variations in the human brain that affect information processing; it includes conditions, or “neurotypes,” such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), dyslexia, dyscalculia, and dyspraxia, among others. Neurodiversity can be conceptualized as significant differences in the ways that individuals process information; such differences may concern written or verbal language, sensory information, body language, or social interactions. These differences have been historically viewed within the medical model of disability, for example, as deficits in ability through a diagnosed condition, often associated with a goal of curing or managing the condition.</jats:p
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
Introduction of a section for recording dementia improves data capture on the ambulance electronic patient record: evidence from a regional quality improvement project
No full textBackground: dementia is a common comorbidity in older people who require urgent or emergency ambulance attendance and influences clinical decisions and care pathways. Following an initial audit of dementia data and consultation with staff, a specific section (tab) to record dementia was introduced on an ambulance service electronic patient record (ePR). This includes a dementia diagnosis button and a free text section. We aimed to assess whether and how this improved recording. Aims: to re-audit the proportion of ambulance ePRs where dementia is recorded for patients aged ≥65 years and describe the frequency of recording in patients aged <65; to analyse discrepancies in the place of recording dementia on the ePR by comparing data from the new dementia tab and other sections of the ePR.Results: we included 112,193 ePRs of patients aged ≥65 with ambulance attendance from a 6 month period. The proportion with dementia recorded in patients aged ≥65 was 16.5%, increasing to 19.8% in patients aged ≥75, as compared to 13.5% (≥65) and 16.5% (≥75) in our previous audit. In this audit, of the 16.5% (n=18,515) of records with dementia, 69.9% (n=12,939) used the dementia button and 25.4% (n=4,704) recorded text in the dementia tab. Dementia was recorded in ePR free text fields (but not the dementia tab) in 29.7% of records. Eighteen other free text fields were used in addition to, or instead of, the dementia tab, including the patient’s social history, previous medical history and mental health. Dementia was present on the ePR of 0.4% (n=461) of patients aged <65.Conclusions: an ePR dementia tab enabled ambulance clinicians to standardise the location of recording dementia and may have facilitated increased recording. We would recommend other ambulance Trusts capture this information in a specific section to improve information sharing and inform care planning for this patient group. <br/
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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