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O abraço cruel da dor: a endometriose e as suas representações
Get PDFEndometriosis is a chronic disease of the female genital tract, the etiology of which is still unclear. The purpose of this paper is to analyze, from a biopsychosocial perspective, the structure of social representations of endometriosis of women with this disease and healthy women. To this end, an exploratory survey was conducted by administering an online questionnaire. The results made it possible to identify those particular type of social representations, the controversies, articulated differently and often contradictory in their peripheral elements. These results provide a useful basis for the construction of intervention strategies to avoid the “epistemological purgatory” in which many women are forced to live due to the discrepancy between the subjective experience of endometriosis and its expert knowledge.La endometriosis es una enfermedad crónica del aparato genital femenino cuya etiología aún no está clara. El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar, desde una perspectiva biopsicosocial, la estructura de las representaciones sociales de la endometriosis entre mujeres con esta enfermedad y mujeres sanas. Para ello, se realizó una encuesta exploratoria mediante un cuestionario online. Los resultados permitieron identificar ese tipo particular de representaciones sociales, las polémicas, articuladas de manera diferente y a menudo contradictoria en sus elementos periféricos. Estos resultados constituyen una base útil para la construcción de estrategias de intervención destinadas a evitar el “purgatorio epistemológico” en el que muchas mujeres se ven obligadas a vivir debido a la discrepancia entre la experiencia subjetiva de la endometriosis y el conocimiento experto de la misma.L’endométriose est une maladie chronique de l’appareil génital féminin dont l’étiologie n’est pas encore élucidée. L’objectif de ce travail est d’analyser, dans une perspective biopsychosociale, la structure des représentations sociales de l’endométriose chez les femmes atteintes de cette maladie et chez les femmes saines. Pour faire ça, une enquête exploratoire a été menée au moyen d’un questionnaire en ligne. Les résultats ont permis d’identifier un type particulier de représentations sociales, les représentations polémiques, articulées différemment et souvent contradictoires dans leurs éléments périphériques. Ces résultats fournissent une base utile pour construire des stratégies d’intervention afin d’éviter le «purgatoire épistémologique» dans lequel de nombreuses femmes sont contraintes de vivre en raison du décalage entre leur expérience subjective de l’endométriose et la connaissance qu’en ont les experts.A endometriose é uma doença crónica do aparelho genital feminino, cuja etiologia ainda não está esclarecida. O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar, numa perspectiva biopsicossocial, a estrutura das representações sociais da endometriose entre mulheres com esta doença e mulheres saudáveis. Para o efeito, foi realizado um inquérito exploratório através de um questionário online. Os resultados permitiram identificar um tipo particular de representações sociais, as polémicas, articuladas de forma diferente e muitas vezes contraditória nos seus elementos periféricos. Estes resultados constituem uma base útil para a construção de estratégias de intervenção para evitar o “purgatório epistemológico” em que muitas mulheres são obrigadas a viver devido à discrepância entre a sua experiência subjetiva da endometriose e o seu conhecimento especializado da mesma
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
Is Cultured Meat a Case of Food or Technological Neophobia? On the Usefulness of Studying Social Representations of Novel Foods
Get PDFIn recent years, many studies have examined “novel foods” from various perspectives; however, the theoretical framework of social representations has been underutilized in this research. This paper denotes an initial attempt to study the socio-symbolic impact of synthetic foods using this framework. Specifically, the study aims to explore how different audiences—such as carnivores versus vegetarians—interpret unfamiliar foods, focusing on a new food technology: synthetic meat. The research seeks to describe and compare the social representations of cultured meat that are co-constructed and shared among these
social groups (n = 350). The study adopts the structural approach, analyzing both the structure and content of the social representations in question. This was achieved through a mixed-methods strategy, which included hierarchical evocation, a food neophobia scale, checklists, open-ended questions, and a projective sensory analysis technique. Data analysis employed both qualitative and quantitative methods. The main findings indicate the significant roles of generative processes, cognitive polyphasia, and sensory anchors in the co-construction of social representations of cultured meat. The use of chemical-genetic
objectification, metaphors, and clichés reflect ongoing debates about the possible implications of synthetic meat consumption for the environment and society. Our findings encourage consideration of social knowledge and cultural variables in food studies
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
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