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Space Scratch Symphony
No full text"The Space Scratch Symphony is a world first, a symphony composed for - and with input from - Leicester & Leicestershire music students with inspiration and involvement from students in schools in the city and county by composer Elizabeth Kelly and award-winning turntablist Jon1st with Leicestershire Music and the Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra (LSSO)The piece is scored for symphony orchestra, 3-part chorus and turntables.The world premier performance took place at De Montfort Hall, Leicester on Tuesday 25th June [2024] as part of Leicestershire Music's Out of this World concert. An evening of Space related music performed by young people from Leicester & Leicestershire." -- Leicestershire Music [https://leicestershiremusichub.org/space-scratch-symphony
The role of laryngeal physiology in generating Xenopus muelleri vocalizations
Get PDF(Statement of Responsibility) by Kelly Elizabeth South(Thesis) Thesis (B.A.) -- New College of Florida, 2019RESTRICTED TO NCF STUDENTS, STAFF, FACULTY, AND ON-CAMPUS USE(Bibliography) Includes bibliographical references.This bibliographic record is available under the Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication. The New College of Florida Libraries, as creator of this bibliographic record, has waived all rights to it worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law.Faculty Sponsor: Leininger, Elizabet
Client-guided treatment development for problem drinkers of various sexual orientations
No full textThe present study worked from a social learning perspective, addressed several of the methodological limitations of previous research, and provided empirical data on some of the unanswered questions related to drinking habits, barriers to treatment seeking, and treatment preferences in the lesbian/gay/bisexual community. Participants were recruited over the Internet from 5/19/2007 to 5/31/2008 for a web-based survey that provided personalized feedback on drinking habits to respondents. Overall, the sample (n = 218) was ethnically diverse, middle-aged, employed, college educated, 71% female, and 72% heterosexual. Though several sex differences and sexual orientation differences were found in reported rates of substance use, the groups appeared more similar than different in terms of motivation for treatment, barriers to treatment seeking, and treatment preferences. Severity of drinking was correlated with levels of drinking in social networks, and heterosexual respondents reported higher proportions of abstainers in their social networks than lesbian/gay/bisexual respondents. Results suggest individuals do not seek treatment for a wide range of reasons, including stigma, not seeing the need for treatment, and having negative thoughts about treatment. In terms of treatment preferences, 40% preferred professional outpatient treatment, 29% preferred a self-help group, 15% preferred a self-help book, and 16% preferred computerized treatment either online or with computerized sessions. Clinical implications and future research directions are discussed.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 72-76)
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
Supporting decision-making in the context of personalised genetic cancer risk management
No full textCarriers of germline genetic cancer predispositions face complex, emotionally laden choices regarding risk management. Lynch syndrome has been associated with unmet informational and decision support needs. However, limited attention has been dedicated to understanding the holistic experiences, values and preferences of carriers making senses of their personalised genetic cancer risks and navigating difficult, interrelated choices across their lifespan. As genetic testing becomes more widespread, scalable approaches such as decision aids should be explored to provide trusted, more personalised information and support. This thesis is the first research to investigate how to best support Lynch syndrome carriers in three key areas: (i) self-reported decision support needs, (ii) understanding personalised cancer risks and management options and (iii) making decisions aligned with individual values and preferences. Guided by a constructionist worldview and codesign ethos, four studies were conducted using the Person-Based Approach. These studies informed the development of the Lynch Choices decision aid and the findings have wider implications to enhance risk communication in clinical practice. A systematic literature review suggested a gap in decision aids for Lynch syndrome, limited patient involvement in codesign and insufficient theoretical grounding. A background literature review of decision-making by Lynch syndrome carriers and a patient involvement workshop informed research design and refinement of the decision aid logic model. There was no one best-fit theory to support the complexity of decision-making for carriers. Broader inclusion of multiple theoretical constructs and frameworks was more appropriate to codesign Lynch Choices.Qualitative interviews explored how carriers made sense of their personalised cancer risks and implications for navigating multiple, interrelated risk management choices across their lifespan. Six themes were: finding balance, living on ‘higher alert’, managing uncertainty, burden of responsibility and lack of joined-up care and support. Think-aloud interviews provided situational observation of how carriers engaged with values-based decision support exercises embedded in Lynch Choices. Three themes were: interpreting gene-specific cancer risks, the importance of language and the emotional impact of decision aids. Finally, a survey evaluated the optimised decision aid, demonstrating its usefulness and clarity amongst a wider cohort of carriers with varied characteristics. This thesis presents an original contribution to knowledge regarding how to support decision-making in the context of personalised genetic cancer risk management for Lynch syndrome carriers. Key findings highlighted the importance of clear communication about gene-specific cancer risk information, careful wording about evidence-based choices and attention to emotions, values and preferences. The findings provide a framework for development of other codesigned decision aids as complementary tools to support shared decision-making in clinical practice. The findings have broader implications for supporting genetically high-risk populations beyond Lynch syndrome through inclusive, personalised care pathways codesigned with the people who will use them. This thesis produces insights regarding how to better support carriers to make the right choice for them, at the right time, aligned with their understanding, values and life context. <br/
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
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