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Investigating social support networks of female orphans in Honduras: A needs-based journey into the lives of the invisible
No full textThis thesis investigated the social support networks that exist for abandoned/abused Honduran females and the effect that social support has on social, personal, and psychological development. Thirty-four female children in care living at Nuestras Pequen?as Rosas (NPR) in San Pedro Sula, Honduras provided valuable insight into qualities that they believed essential to exist in a social support network. Through workshops, focus groups, and individual interviews it was found that love, positive mood, and respect were all deemed to be important attributes. Many girls living at Nuestras Pequen?as Rosas demonstrated high levels of perceived social support and hopefulness for their futures. An overview of Nuestras Pequen?as Rosas as a positive social support network and suggested techniques for caregivers working with children in care are discussed. Future research should examine the effect of sex, age, and culture on qualities desired in a social support network and should delve further into understanding the dynamic between spiritual development of children in care and social support networks
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Small-scale farming in South Africa's Western Cape Province: exploring the role of extension in agricultural development and household food security
No full textSouth Africa's well known policies of apartheid reached into every facet of life from employment opportunities to education to agriculture. The majority of the population was denied access to basic rights and services, something that the present government is trying to rectify. For example, for the first time, small scale rather than commercial farmers are now receiving the attention of extension education offered through provincial agricultural departments. The purpose of this study is to determine how different relationships, including those between farmers and extension workers, are affecting the agricultural productivity and household food security of small scale farmers who have access to government extension services in the Western Cape Province. By interviewing farmers from various backgrounds, including differences in age, gender, race, education levels and employment status, from four different communities, the study revealed that the current services that these farmers are receiving are not sufficient to change their agricultural productivity on a long-term basis. Without the constant attention of an extension officer, most of the farmers are unable to start a production cycle. While the farmers cite financing as their biggest obstacle to production, it is clear that they are lacking the ability to form relationships that will help themselves to move ahead. Rather than taking the necessary time to undertake a more participatory approach that involves building new relationships, short term, top-down solutions are being implemented. Unless government development programs are given the flexibility of time and content, especially those mandated from the national level, they will never suit any one environment. More time needs to be spent nurturing human development and capacity building if long term solutions are ever going to be reached in any sector of the New South Africa
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