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Mapping the Dynamics of New Forms of Technological Governance in Agriculture: Methodological Considerations
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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
Normalising uncertainty in undergraduate clinical transition seminars
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The transition from the pre-clinical to clinical years of undergraduate medical training is a profound experience for medical students, one that is characterised by intense uncertainty and anxiety. The medical education literature tends to focus on dealing with medical uncertainty through teaching effective clinical decision-making skills. The emphasis is placed on developing the instrumental capacities of individual students at the cognitive, technical, conceptual and personal levels. This leads to neglect of the situational and collective social responses that students experience and use when adapting to training within the clinical environmental culture(s). \ud
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This paper reports on an evaluation of clinical transition seminars for 4th year Monash MBBS students conducted in July 2003. The seminars were designed and implemented with a dual purpose in mind: to introduce 4th year students to the social aspects of uncertainty in medical training and practice within hospital settings, and to inform the development and implementation of transition seminars for the 3rd year students of the new five-year Monash MBBS curriculum. The key objectives of the teaching and learning activity were to increase the students' understanding of the clinical environment, the complexities inherent in the management of the multiple identities they embody within this context, and the uncertainty that is associated with practising medicine. \ud
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Nine two-hour seminars were conducted over a three-day period involving 180 students in groups of 20. Results: The evaluation results demonstrate that the students believed that the seminars contributed positively to their transition to the hospital environment and that learning activities that account for broader aspects of uncertainty in medicine are highly valued. \ud
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The results suggest that a greater focus on the social aspects of uncertainty within clinical transition teaching regimes is perceived to be beneficial by medical students
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
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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