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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
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
The impact of music-supported training on gait in individuals with dementia
No full textAbstraktHintergrund:Bei Menschen mit Demenz treten neben kognitiven Einschränkungen häufig auch motorische Defizite auf, insbesondere im Gangbild. Diese Veränderungen erhöhen das Sturzrisiko erheblich und schränken die Selbstständigkeit im Alltag ein. Da pharmakologische Therapien nur begrenzten Einfluss auf motorische Funktionen haben, rücken nicht-medikamentöse Ansätze in der Physiotherapie zunehmend in den Fokus. Musik stellt dabei eine besonders wirkungsvolle Ressource dar, weil das musikalische Langzeitgedächtnis oft bis in späte Krankheitsstadien erhalten bleibt. Musik-gestütztes-Training nutzt rhythmische Reize, um gezielt motorische und kognitive Fähigkeiten zu aktivieren, und zeigt vielversprechende Effekte in der Förderung von Mobilität und Sturzprävention.Fragestellung:Das Ziel dieser Arbeit besteht darin, anhand der Literaturrecherche die Auswirkungen von Musik-gestütztem-Training als potenzielle Therapieintervention in der Physiotherapie zur Verbesserung des Gangbildes bei Menschen mit Demenz zu ermitteln.Ergebnisse:Die Mehrheit der analysierten Studien zeigte signifikante Verbesserungen in gangbezogenen Parametern wie Gehgeschwindigkeit, Schrittlänge und Gleichgewicht. Besonders wirksam waren Interventionen mit rhythmisch akzentuierter und individuell bedeutungsvoller Musik. Zudem berichtete eine Studie von positiven kognitiven Effekten. Besonders multimodale Trainingsansätze, die motorische und kognitive Aufgaben kombinierten, erzielten nachhaltige Ergebnisse. In mehreren Studien wurde zudem eine Reduktion der Sturzrate über einen Zeitraum von mehreren Monaten bis hin zu mehreren Jahren dokumentiert. Unterschiede ergaben sich hinsichtlich Dauer, Frequenz, Setting, Demenzgrad der Teilnehmenden sowie eingesetzten Assessments. Die besten Resultate wurden erzielt, wenn die Musik biografisch relevant war, der Takt an die individuelle Schrittfrequenz angepasst wurde oder die Übungen in gewohnter Umgebung stattfanden. Auch die Einbindung von Angehörigen erwies sich als förderlich für die Adhärenz. Die langfristigen Effekte waren besonders dort erkennbar, wo Interventionen regelmäßig, über mehrere Wochen hinweg, mit professioneller Anleitung durchgeführt wurden.Conclusio:Musik-gestütztes-Gangtraining stellt eine effektive, kostengünstige und alltagsnahe Intervention dar, die das Potenzial hat, Mobilität zu fördern, Stürze zu reduzieren und das Gesundheitssystem zu entlasten. Für die Praxis empfiehlt sich der gezielte Einsatz biografisch relevanter Musik sowie die Integration in vertraute Routinen und Settings. Darüber hinaus sollte bei der Durchführung auf individuelle Bedürfnisse, die Tagesform sowie auf die Einbindung von Angehörigen geachtet werden. Zukünftige Forschung sollte die Langzeitwirksamkeit evaluieren und standardisierte Assessments sowie größere Stichproben verwenden, um die klinische Relevanz noch fundierter zu belegen.AbstractBackground:In people with dementia, motor deficits particularly gait disturbances often occur alongside cognitive decline. These impairments significantly increase the risk of falls and limit independence in daily life. As pharmacological treatments have limited effects on motor function, non-pharmacological interventions are becoming increasingly important in physiotherapy. Music represents a particularly effective therapeutic resource, as musical long-term memory often remains intact even in advanced stages of the disease. Music-based training uses rhythmic cues to specifically activate motor and cognitive abilities and shows promising results in improving mobility and reducing fall risk.Objectives: The aim of this study is to investigate, based on a literature review, the effects of music-based training as a potential therapeutic intervention in physiotherapy to improve gait performance in people with dementia.Results:The majority of studies showed significant improvements in gait-related parameters such as walking speed, stride length, and balance. Interventions with rhythmically accentuated and biographically meaningful music were particularly effective. Additionally, one study reported cognitive benefits. Multimodal training approaches that combined motor and cognitive tasks achieved lasting results. Several studies also documented a reduced fall rate over periods ranging from months to years. Differences emerged in duration, frequency, setting, dementia severity, and assessment tools. The best outcomes occurred when the music was biographically relevant, the beat matched the individual's step frequency, and exercises took place in familiar surroundings. Involvement of relatives also proved beneficial for adherence. Long-term effects were particularly noticeable when interventions were conducted regularly over several weeks with professional guidance.Conclusion:Music-assisted gait training is an effective, low-cost and everyday intervention that has the potential to promote mobility, reduce falls and relieve the burden on the healthcare system. In practice, the use of biographically relevant music and integration into familiar routines and settings is recommended. In addition, attention should be paid to individual needs, the patient's daily condition and the involvement of relatives. Future research should evaluate the long-term effectiveness and use standardized assessments and larger samples in order to provide more sound evidence of clinical relevance.Verfasserin: Kriechbaumer FranziskaAbweichender Titel laut Übersetzung von der:dem Verfasser:inBachelorarbeit FH JOANNEUM 202
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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