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Neoseiulella neoviniferae Basha, Mahrous & Mostafa
No full text<i>Neoseiulella neoviniferae</i> Basha, Mahrous & Mostafa <p> <i>Neoseiulella neoviniferae</i> Basha, Mahrous & Mostafa, in Basha <i>et al</i>., 2004: 347; Kanouh <i>et al</i>., 2012: 322.</p> <p> <b>Previous records from Egypt.</b> Sharkia governorate (Basha <i>et al</i>., 2004).</p> <p> <b>Remarks.</b> No additional specimens of this species were found in this study. It was originally described from the holotype female and five paratype females collected in El-Khattara village, Faqous, Sharkia governorate, Egypt. The original description was detailed, with illustrations and setal measurements.</p>Published as part of <i>Abo-Shnaf, Reham I. A. & De, Gilberto J., 2014, Phytoseiid mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from Egypt, with new records, descriptions of new species, and a key to species, pp. 1-71 in Zootaxa 3865 (1)</i> on page 42, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3865.1.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/287144">http://zenodo.org/record/287144</a>
Effects of interventions for anxiety on peripheral inflammation:: a systematic review and meta-analysis
No full textInvestigating the contextual factors that affect the motivation and de-motivation of EFL teachers in a university in Saudi Arabia
No full textTeacher motivation is widely recognised as a crucial determinant of educational quality and student achievement, particularly in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) contexts. This qualitative study investigates the personal and institutional factors that shape the motivation and demotivation of EFL teachers working at a Saudi Arabian university. The research was conducted within the English Language Institute (ELI), a preparatory programme that supports foundation-year students. Situated within the wider framework of educational reform driven by Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030, this study provides an in-depth exploration of the lived experiences of female EFL teachers and the contextual forces that influence their professional engagement.The study is framed by Ushioda’s (2009) Person-in-Context (PIC) theory of motivation, which emphasises viewing motivation as a fluid theoretical perspective rather than a fixed trait, which is relationally and contextually shaped. The research was conducted using a two-phase narrative inquiry design to understand these dynamics. During the initial "exploratory phase", the researcher conducted open-ended narrative interviews with ten language instructors to identify the contextual elements that affected their motivation. The second "Narration Focus Phase" involved open-ended narrative and semi-structured interviews with four participants, providing in-depth and reflexive accounts of motivational change over time. The study applied Braun and Clarke’s six-phase model of thematic analysis to code and interpret the narrative data. Through this multi-stage framework, the research achieved comprehensive and detailed insights into teachers’ motivation within the Saudi EFL teaching context.The findings show that factors such as personal fulfilment, religious and moral values, and a passion for teaching initiate intrinsic motivation, but it remains vulnerable to contextual pressures. These pressures include curriculum standards, lack of autonomy, time constraints, and insufficient recognition. Positive teacher-student relationships were found to bolster teachers’ motivation, while constraints such as standardised assessments, lack of transparency, and organisational mistrust led to emotional exhaustion.Importantly, motivation and teacher identity were found to change over time, influenced by personal believes, opportunities for professional growth, and institutional transformation. Engagement in professional development, combined with reflective practice, enhanced teachers’ ability to maintain or regain their motivation throughout their careers.This study contributes to the growing body of literature on teacher motivation by offering culturally contextualised insights from the Gulf region. It underscores the need for policy frameworks and institutional practices that promote autonomy, recognition, and meaningful professional development. Recognising teacher motivation as a dynamic, relational construct enables more responsive and sustainable approaches to educational reform and teacher support in rapidly changing higher education environments.<br/
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Patient's bill of rights: Is it a challenge for quality health care in Saudi Arabia?
No full textBackground: Increasing interest in patients' rights and the certainty of its impact on the quality of patient care has led to extensive research in both developed and developing countries. In 2006, the Government of Saudi Arabia publicized the Patient's Bill of Rights (PBR) that was aimed at improving patients' and health-care professionals' experience, with a focus on the quality of care provided.
Objective: To determine the degree of awareness of rights among patients admitted to hospitals in Al-Madinah Al-Munawarah. The results would help policymakers understand the impact of patients' rights, and thus provide them with evidence to provide quality health-care service delivery and patient care through patients' rights.
Methodology: This is an observational, analytical, cross-sectional study implemented in Al-Madinah Al-Munawarah, Saudi Arabia, using a self-administered questionnaire.
Results: The study had a response rate of 83.01% and found an association between gender and knowledge for the selected items of patients' rights. However, there was no statistically significant difference between the knowledge of males and females regarding the consent form, with an awareness rate of 90% among the total sample size. However, almost half had never heard about patients' rights.
Conclusion: This study shows that in Al-Madinah Al-Munawarah, Saudi Arabia, there is a low level of awareness among patients admitted to hospitals regarding their rights. Further, it was found that wall placards, mass media and health-care providers are important sources of knowledge regarding patients' rights. Health-care policymakers in Saudi Arabia should recognize the importance of patients' rights as means of providing better quality care and a higher rate of patient satisfaction by establishing measures to tackle obstacles that may impede the implementation of PBR
Variations on the Author
No full text“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
No full textWe 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
The roles of beta and alpha tryptases in asthma: genetic and immunopharmacological studies
No full textTryptases, the dominant secretory granular proteins from human mast cells, are emerging as important mediators in asthma and allergy. The β- and α- tryptases have highly similar nucleotide sequences and located on the same locus. While the entire population expresses β-tryptase, the α-tryptase gene exhibits copy number variation (CNV). We have studied the association of expression of these allelic variants with asthma or allergic diseases. We have investigated also the potential actions of β- and α-tryptases in vitro and in vivo. We have found that the one alpha tryptase copy allele was significantly associated with lower total serum IgE levels (Z= -2.39, p=0.01) and a tri-allelic architecture with alleles carrying no, one or two copies of the α-tryptase gene was postulated. The addition of βtryptase to epithelial cells induced upregulation of mRNA for IL-8, IL-6 and TNF-α, while α-tryptase on the other hand was without effect in this model. Injection of β-tryptase into the mouse peritoneum induced great accumulation of neutrophils but accumulation of other cell types was less marked. Under the same conditions, injection of α- tryptase induced less neutrophilia but eosinophils, macrophages and mast cells numbers were significantly increased. The actions of β-tryptase seemed be independent of PAR-2 receptors but not the case for α-tryptase, where PAR-2 pathway might take the leads. In conclusion, recombinant α-tryptase may be a stimulus for the recruitment of inflammatory cells and altered cytokine gene expression with effects distinct from those of β-tryptase
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
Author, publisher and bookseller : a tripartite synergy in Nigerian book industry
No full textThis work is about the roles of Author, Publisher and Bookseller in Book development in
Nigeria. The paper started by delving into the history of Book Publishing in Nigeria after
which it proceeded by defining who an author, a publisher, and a bookseller is and
expatiated on the indispensable roles of these key actors in Nigerian Book Industry and in
the emerging Information Society. Furthermore, the various constraints to book
development were identified while the paper advised on how the Book Industry can be
further promoted in Nigeria. However, the paper concluded and made recommendations
on how the Book sector can help in enhancing scholarship in the country
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