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Reducing OA Symptoms with Practitioner and Self-Delivered Healing Touch
No full textColor poster with text, images, table, and flowchart."Healing Touch is a relaxing, nurturing energy therapy that uses gentle touch to assist in balancing physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Healing Touch works with your energy field to support your natural ability to heal, is safe for all ages and works in harmony with standard or allopathic medical care"(Healing Beyond Borders, 2015). The primary aim of this study will test the hypothesis that participants with OA who receive HT 3 times a week for 6 weeks will demonstrate reduced pain and improved feelings of wellbeing compared to the control.University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire Office of Research and Sponsored Programs
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
Mindfulness Interventions for Vaping Management : Department of Nursing and Department of Kinesiology
No full textColor poster with text, images, and photographs.This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of practicing mindfulness techniques and weekly positive framed short message services (SMS) on vaping behaviors of UW-Eau Claire students. 50 participants who vape as a stress intervention are asked to describe their habits with a pre-test questionnaire. Next, participants are assigned to an experimental or control group. For privacy, only the primary investigator will have an identification key. During a 4-week period, the experimental group will be provided vaping pamphlets, mindfulness techniques (4-square breathing, coloring books, meditation, journaling, etc.), and weekly positive SMS, while the control group will continue with their normal behaviors. Two weeks after the initial pre-test, participants will receive questionnaires about their vaping habits and stress levels. From the data collection, we will determine how mindfulness techniques affect participants. Researchers will utilize direct advertising (referrals, campus resources, recruitment table, and email) to recruit subjects for this study. Each participant will receive a gift card upon completion of the study. Various studies completed in this realm of mindfulness, stress, and vaping have discovered a correlation between stress and vaping. This study predicts that these mindfulness techniques will have some success in reducing vaping habits of college students at UW-Eau Claire.University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire Office of Research and Sponsored Program
Mindfulness Interventions for Vaping Management : A Feasibility Study
No full textColor poster with text, charts, and photographs.This study aims to investigate the vaping habits and effectiveness of practicing mindfulness techniques and weekly positive framed text messages on vaping behaviors of UW-Eau Claire students. Various studies completed in this realm of mindfulness, stress, and vaping have discovered a correlation between stress and vaping. Researchers utilized direct advertising (referrals, campus resources, recruitment table, and email) to recruit subjects for this study. Participants received an incentive upon completion of the study. 4 participants who currently vape were asked to describe their habits and stress level with a pre-test questionnaire. Next, participants were assigned to an experimental or control group. For privacy, the primary investigator had an identification key. During a 4-week period, the experimental group will be provided vaping pamphlets, mindfulness techniques (4-square breathing, coloring books, meditation, journaling, etc.), and weekly positive text message, while the control group will continue with their normal behaviors. Six weeks after the initial pre-test, participants received questionnaires about their vaping habits and stress levels. From the data collection, we determined mindfulness techniques reduced stress levels but minimal reduction in participants' vaping habits. However, upon completion of the six-week questionnaire, participants reported a 31% decrease in spending on vape products after this study.University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire Office of Research and Sponsored Program
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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