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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
Unemployment and health in times of economic crisis in Greece: investigating and recording relations and implications
No full textAim: Investigating relations and recording the impact of unemployment on the health status during the economic crisis in Greece. Specifically, the research interest focuses on the effects of unemployment on physical and mental health, economic hardship, health behaviors and the utilization of health services.Methodology: A cross-sectional and observation study was conducted in the unemployed population who visited the Employment Promotion Centers (KPA2) of the Manpower Employment Organization (OAED) in Attica from June 2016 to September 2017. The survey was approved by the Management of OAED and the Research Ethics Committee of the University of Peloponnese. The data collection was carried out with a composite, self-completed questionnaire. The methodology was stratified sampling. The results were evaluated by descriptive and inferential statistics. The significance levels were two-tailed and the statistical significance set at 0.05 level.Results: The final sample of the study was 830 unemployed people with a response rate 73.5%. The majority of unemployed were women (66.1%), belonged to the age group of 20-30 years (36.1%) and has completed higher education (54.4%). A very low percentage of the participants (16.4%) suffered from long-term disease. Approximately 3 out of 10 were long-term unemployed with a mean duration of 4 years. 54.2% declared monthly net household income up to € 1.500 before unemployment and reached 90.2% after unemployment (p≤0.001). About 1 in 3 unemployed people reported that they were employed in occasional work or depending on financial support from the family environment. 23.1% faced in high economic distress. Regarding mental health, 55.2% presented depressive symptoms. A reduction in physical health status by 16.7 points before and during unemployment was found (p≤0.001). It is noteworthy that unemployed did not change their eating habits, but they reduced physical activity. Τhe use of alcohol and tobacco was not affected by unemployment. The majority of sample choose mainly the public health system or the contracted health services, with the exception of dental care and mental health services, where private health services are chosen. 42.4% declared unmet health needs due to unaffordable co-insurance payments, however only 15.1% addressed in social settings to meet their needs. Concerning health care expenditures, our research has shown that unemployed spend €1,520 per household and in particular €323 in the form of co-insurance and €1,197 for direct payments, which result in a high rate of catastrophic spending (19%). Differences were observed when the results are weighted on the basis of demographic and socio-economic characteristics of the sample. Conclusions: The increase in unemployment and the above-mentioned health-related factors have been documented to reinforce each other in a bidirectional and feedback relationship. The findings should be taken into account by social and health policy designers, in order to develop strategies tackling unemployment, support policies and action frameworks improving unemployed’ health.Σκοπός: Η διερεύνηση των σχέσεων και καταγραφή των επιπτώσεων της οικονομικής κρίσης στην Ελλάδα στο επίπεδο υγείας του άνεργου πληθυσμού. Ειδικότερα, το ερευνητικό ενδιαφέρον εστιάζεται στις επιπτώσεις της ανεργίας στη σωματική και ψυχική υγεία, την οικονομική δυσχέρεια, τις συμπεριφορές υγείας και τη χρήση υπηρεσιών υγείας. Μεθοδολογία: Συγχρονική μελέτη παρατήρησης διεξήχθη στον άνεργο πληθυσμό που επισκέφθηκε τα Κέντρα Προώθησης της Απασχόλησης (ΚΠΑ2) του Οργανισμού Απασχόλησης Εργατικού Δυναμικού (ΟΑΕΔ) στην Αττική κατά την περίοδο Ιούνιο 2016 έως και Σεπτέμβριο 2017. Η έρευνα έλαβε άδεια από τη Διοίκηση του ΟΑΕΔ και την Επιτροπή Ερευνητικής Δεοντολογίας του Πανεπιστημίου Πελοποννήσου. Η συλλογή των δεδομένων πραγματοποιήθηκε με ένα σύνθετο, αυτοσυμπληρούμενο ερωτηματολόγιο και ακολουθήθηκε η στρωματοποιημένη δειγματοληψία. Η στατιστική ανάλυση βασίστηκε σε περιγραφική και επαγωγική στατιστική. Τα επίπεδα σημαντικότητας ήταν αμφίπλευρα και η στατιστική σημαντικότητα τέθηκε στο επίπεδο 0,05. Αποτελέσματα: Το τελικό δείγμα της παρούσας διδακτορικής ήταν 830 άνεργα άτομα με ποσοστό ανταπόκρισης 73,5%. Η πλειοψηφία των ανέργων ήταν γυναίκες (66,1%), ανήκε στην ηλικιακή ομάδα 20-30 ετών (36,1%) και είχε ολοκληρώσει τριτοβάθμια εκπαίδευση (54,4%). Πολύ χαμηλό ποσοστό των ανέργων (16,4%) έπασχε από κάποια μακροχρόνια ασθένεια. Σχεδόν 3 στους 10 ήταν μακροχρόνια άνεργοι με μέση διάρκεια 4 έτη. Το 54,2% δήλωσε μηνιαίο καθαρό εισόδημα νοικοκυριού έως €1.500 πριν από την ανεργία, ποσοστό που αυξήθηκε σε 90,2% κατά την περίοδο της ανεργίας (p≤0.001). Περίπου 1 στους 3 ανέργους δήλωσε ότι απασχολείται σε περιστασιακές εργασίες ή βασίζεται στην οικονομική στήριξη από το οικογενειακό περιβάλλον. Το 23,1% αντιμετώπιζε υψηλή οικονομική δυσχέρεια. Σχετικά με τη ψυχική υγεία, το 55,2% παρουσίαζε καταθλιπτικά συμπτώματα και η σωματική κατάσταση υγείας μειώθηκε σημαντικά συγκρινόμενη με πριν την ανεργία κατά 16,7 μονάδες (p≤0.001). Αξιοσημείωτο είναι το γεγονός ότι οι άνεργοι δεν άλλαξαν τις διατροφικές τους συμπεριφορές, ωστόσο μείωσαν τη σωματική άσκηση. Θετικό ήταν το εύρημα ότι η χρήση αλκοόλ και καπνού δεν αυξήθηκε. Η πλειοψηφία του δείγματος επιλέγει κυρίως το δημόσιο σύστημα υγείας ή τις συμβεβλημένες υπηρεσίες υγείας, με εξαίρεση την οδοντιατρική φροντίδα και τις υπηρεσίες ψυχικής υγείας, όπου επιλέγονται ιδιωτικές υπηρεσίες υγείας. Το 42,4% δήλωσε ανεκπλήρωτες ανάγκες υγείας λόγω οικονομικής αδυναμίας στη συνασφάλιση, όμως μόνο το 15,1% επισκέφθηκε κοινωνικές δομές για την κάλυψη των αναγκών του. Ως προς τις δαπάνες για υπηρεσίες υγείας, η έρευνα απέδειξε ότι δαπανώνται €1.520 ετησίως ανά νοικοκυριό και ειδικότερα €323 με τη μορφή συνασφάλισης και €1.197 για άμεσες πληρωμές, οι οποίες συνάγονται υψηλό ποσοστό καταστροφικών δαπανών (19%). Διαφοροποιήσεις παρατηρήθηκαν όταν τα αποτελέσματα σταθμίστηκαν με βάση τα δημογραφικά και κοινωικοοικονομικά χαρακτηριστικά του δείγματος. Συμπεράσματα: Η αύξηση της ανεργίας και οι προαναφερόμενοι παράγοντες που συνδέονται με την υγεία τεκμηριώθηκε ότι συμβαδίζουν σε μια αμφίδρομη και ανατροφοδοτούμενη σχέση. Τα ευρήματα πρέπει να ληφθούν υπόψη από τους σχεδιαστές κοινωνικής πολιτικής και πολιτικής υγείας, προκειμένου να αναπτυχθούν στρατηγικές αντιμετώπισης της ανεργίας, πολιτικές υποστήριξης και πλαίσια δράσεων για τη βελτίωση της υγείας του άνεργου πληθυσμού
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
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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