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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
The effects a rehabilitation dog has on walking balance and fear of falling in individuals with an incomplete spinal cord injury
Get PDFBACKGROUND: Individuals with an incomplete spinal cord injury (iSCI) may experience gait instability and falls. Falls can result in injuries, a fear of falling, and reduced balance confidence which can lead to restriction of activities of daily living. Rehabilitation dogs are specially trained and certified to assist individuals with mobility impairments and have been shown to benefit walking for individuals with neurological conditions. The effects of a rehabilitation dog on walking, fear of falling, and balance confidence in individuals with an iSCI has yet to be assessed.
METHODS: In this quasi-experimental research study, five individuals with an iSCI (3 females: 43-54 years; 2 males: 42-69 years) and five age- and sex- matched neurotypical individuals (control group: 3 females: 42-55 years; 2 males: 42-68 years) were recruited to participate. Participants completed normal and tandem walking trials, with and without the rehabilitation dog, while their eyes were open and closed. Outcome variables included stride velocity, relative double support time (%DS), step length, step width, mediolateral (ML) and anterior-posterior (AP) margin of stability (MOS) average (Av). Variability was assessed for all the outcome variables using standard deviation (SD). The Mini Balance Evaluation Systems Test (MiniBESTest), Activity Specific Balance Confidence Scale (ABC Scale), Falls Efficacy Scale – International questionnaire (FES-I), and additional questions added to the ABC and FES-I questionnaire were used to examine balance, balance confidence, and fear of falling, respectively. Visual analog scales (VAS) were included to measure participants’ perceptions of walking with the rehabilitation dog.
RESULTS: Without the rehabilitation dog, participants with iSCI walked slower and with shorter steps, a smaller AP MOS Av, and a higher %DS, %DS SD, and wider steps than controls. It appeared individuals with an iSCI showed some improvements with the rehabilitation dog while the control group showed worsening when the dog was added. For iSCI participants, the rehabilitation dog reduced the impact of the eyes closed condition while walking compared to without the rehabilitation dog by decreasing their %DS (mean and SD) to a value similar to controls.. Tandem walking with the rehabilitation dog resulted in similar AP MOS Av between groups, but overall, the rehabilitation dog had minimal impact on tandem walking. The group with iSCI had a lower balance control (iSCI 17.2±9.34, control 26.8±0.80), balance confidence (iSCI 67.6±15.3, control 92.4±2.78), and increased fear of falling (iSCI 28.6±7.16, control 20.6±1.51) compared to the control group as expected. Responses to the additional questions for the ABC and FES-I suggest walking with the rehabilitation dog improved balance confidence and decreased fear of falling for individuals with an iSCI. VAS results showed both groups felt subjective improvements walking with the rehabilitation dog.
CONCLUSION: Walking with the rehabilitation dog appeared to improve measures of gait and confidence in the participants with iSCI including objective (kinematic) and patient-reported outcomes. Further research is required with a larger number of participants to explore how a more experienced rehabilitation dog walk with an iSCI population and other neurological conditions
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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