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ASSERTIVENESS TRAINING: SPEAKING WITH CLARITY, KINDNESS, AND SELF-RESPECT - Michael James Arnold - House of Arnold Research Archive
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This work presents a practical and human-centered approach to assertiveness training. The goal of the book is to help individuals develop the ability to speak clearly for themselves while maintaining kindness, empathy, and respect for others.
Rather than framing assertiveness as confrontation, the book explores it as a learned communication skill that allows people to express needs, boundaries, and ideas without aggression or withdrawal. Through structured chapters, visual learning elements, and real-life communication examples, the text demonstrates how assertive communication supports healthier relationships, improved decision-making, and personal confidence.
The book is designed to be accessible to visual learners and general readers while remaining useful as a reference for educators, counselors, and communication trainers. Each chapter includes visual learning elements intended to reinforce key concepts and help readers recognize assertive communication patterns in everyday situations.
Ultimately, the work emphasizes that assertiveness is not about dominating conversations but about participating in them honestly and respectfully
AUTISM, WITHOUT THE NOISE A Clear Guide to Autism That Cuts Through the Confusion Michael James Arnold
No full textAutism, Without the Noise is a long-form explanatory work that aims to clarify autism without fear-based framing, misinformation, or sensationalism. The book addresses widespread confusion surrounding autism by separating evidence from assumption, correlation from causation, and difference from deficit.
Rather than treating autism as a crisis or controversy, this work approaches it as a form of human neurological variation that has historically been misunderstood, misrepresented, and filtered through cultural anxiety. It explains why autism appears more visible today, how diagnostic recognition has changed over time, and why myths about vaccines, diet, and environmental causes persist despite scientific refutation.
The book is structured to be accessible to non-specialists while remaining precise and responsible in its language. It covers internal autistic experience (sensory processing, cognitive load, anxiety, and regulation), first encounters and everyday interactions, environmental and systemic barriers, and the difference between symbolic inclusion and practical inclusion. Particular attention is given to how misunderstanding arises in social, educational, workplace, and healthcare contexts—not through malice, but through design assumptions that fail to account for neurological diversity.
This work prioritizes clarity, cognitive safety, and usability. It is written to be readable under stress, skimmed without distortion, and revisited without escalating anxiety. Visual figures are used to support comprehension for visual learners and to reduce interpretive burden. The goal is not persuasion, but understanding.
Autism, Without the Noise is intended for educators, families, autistic and non-autistic readers, clinicians, policy thinkers, and anyone seeking a grounded, non-alarmist framework for understanding autism in contemporary society
AUTISM, WITHOUT THE NOISE A Clear Guide to Autism That Cuts Through the Confusion Michael James Arnold
No full textAutism, Without the Noise is a long-form explanatory work that aims to clarify autism without fear-based framing, misinformation, or sensationalism. The book addresses widespread confusion surrounding autism by separating evidence from assumption, correlation from causation, and difference from deficit.
Rather than treating autism as a crisis or controversy, this work approaches it as a form of human neurological variation that has historically been misunderstood, misrepresented, and filtered through cultural anxiety. It explains why autism appears more visible today, how diagnostic recognition has changed over time, and why myths about vaccines, diet, and environmental causes persist despite scientific refutation.
The book is structured to be accessible to non-specialists while remaining precise and responsible in its language. It covers internal autistic experience (sensory processing, cognitive load, anxiety, and regulation), first encounters and everyday interactions, environmental and systemic barriers, and the difference between symbolic inclusion and practical inclusion. Particular attention is given to how misunderstanding arises in social, educational, workplace, and healthcare contexts—not through malice, but through design assumptions that fail to account for neurological diversity.
This work prioritizes clarity, cognitive safety, and usability. It is written to be readable under stress, skimmed without distortion, and revisited without escalating anxiety. Visual figures are used to support comprehension for visual learners and to reduce interpretive burden. The goal is not persuasion, but understanding.
Autism, Without the Noise is intended for educators, families, autistic and non-autistic readers, clinicians, policy thinkers, and anyone seeking a grounded, non-alarmist framework for understanding autism in contemporary society
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
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
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