1,720,954 research outputs found
The perceptions of carers regarding non-adherence to immunisation schedule
Full text linkThesis (MCur)--Stellenbosch University, 2016.AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING : Kinder-immunisasie is ‘n belangrike ingryping om die aantal kindersterftes te verminder. Die Uitgebreide Program oor Immunisering word dus in Suid Afrika gebruik om kindersterftes te help voorkom. Alhoewel immunisasie-dekking in Suid Afrika effektief blyk te wees, presenteer die Wes-Kaap met ‘n hoё terugvalsyfer. Die doel van hierdie studie was om die persepsies van versorgers met betrekking tot nie-nakoming aan die immuniseringsprogram te verken.
’n Kwalitatiewe navorsingsontwerp, met ’n fenomenologiese benadering was tydens hierdie studie toegepas. Die studie het van ‘n doelgerigte steekproef gebruik gemaak om die versorgers van kinders, woonagtig in die Oostelike sub-distrik van Kaapstad, te selekteer. Die navorser het van ‘n semi-gestruktureerde onderhoudsriglyn gebruik gemaak, wat na aanleiding van die doelstellings van die studie ontwerp is. Die onderhoudsriglyn is deur die promotor en mede-promotor van die studie gevalideer. Die Etiekkomitee van die fakulteit van Gesondheidswetenskappe, Universiteit van Stellenbosch, het vergunning vir die uitvoering van hierdie studie verleen, terwyl die Wes-Kaapse Stadsgesondheid toestemming vir die beplande onderhoude by die onderskeie klinieke gegee het. Skriftelike toestemming is van elke deelnemer, voor aanvangs van die onderhoud tydens die studie verkry.
Vier temas het vanuit die studie-uitkomstes, rakende die moontlike redes vir nie-nakoming aan die voorgestelde immuniseringskedule deur versorgers van babas voortgespruit, naamlik toeganklikheid van klinieke, kennis van ouers, ander verantwoordelikhede en die houding van personeel. Die bevindings van die studie het die Strategiese Adviserende Groep van Kundiges se raamwerk ondersteun, naamlik dat veelvuldige faktore die huiwering rakende entstof kan beїnvloed, byvoorbeeld sosio-kultureel, omgewings, gesondheidsisteme, of institusioneel.
Die studie het tot die slotsom gekom dat die gebrek aan gesondheidsorgopvoeding, geweld en sosio-ekonomiese faktore die nie-nakoming aan die immuniseringsprogram sterk beïnvloed het. Verdere navorsing word aanbeveel ten einde die insette van deelnemers vanaf `n breër sosio-ekonomiese agtergrond in die Wes-Kaap te bekom.ENGLISH SUMMARY : Child immunization is an important intervention to reduce the number of childhood deaths. The Expanded Programme on Immunization is therefore being utilized in South Africa to help prevent childhood deaths. Although immunization coverage appears to be effective in South Africa, the Western Cape presents with a high default rate. The aim of the study was to explore the perceptions of carers regarding non-adherence to the immunization schedule.
A qualitative research design, with a phenomenological approach was applied during this study. This study made use of a focused sample to select the carers of children, residing in the Eastern sub-district of Cape Town. The researcher made use of a semi-structured interview guideline that had been designed, based upon the objectives of the study. This interview guideline was validated by the supervisor and co-supervisor of the study. The Ethics committee at the faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, granted their permission to perform this study, while the Western Cape’s City Health also gave permission to do the planned interviews at the respective clinics. Written consent was obtained from each participant, before conducting the interview during this study.
Four themes emerged from the outcomes of this study with regards to the possible reasons for non-adherence to the recommended immunization schedule by carers of babies, i.e. accessibility of clinics, parental knowledge, other responsibilities and staff attitudes. The findings of the study supported the framework of The Strategic Advisory Group of Experts, stating that vaccine hesitancy can be influenced by multiple factors, such as socio-cultural, environmental, health systems, or institutional.
The study concluded that the lack of healthcare education, crime and socio-economic factors strongly influenced non-adherence to the immunization schedule. Further research is recommended to include the input from participants from a wider socio-economic background in the Western Cape
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
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
- …
