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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
Towards effective oral healthcare management and provision: A mixed methods study on quality within academic dentistry in the UAE
No full textWithin dental school clinics, it is important not only to consider the training of dental students, but also to address the clinic patients' needs and provide high quality oral healthcare. Continuous quality assessment allows us to identify and understand areas of strength, as well as areas that require improvement. This, in turn, will maximize health benefits for the patients, ensure adequate clinical experience for dental students and control costs. Therefore, the aim of this study was to provide a descriptive assessment of the elements of oral healthcare quality provided to adult patients at the University Dental Hospital Sharjah (UDHS) using individual auditing procedures and in-depth interviews with all stakeholders, with the intent to recommend effective intervention(s) to improve oral healthcare management and provision. We started with a systematic literature review (SLR) to determine what aspects of care are used to assess quality of oral healthcare by patients and providers in the Middle Eastern Culture. Based on the results of the SLR (narrative synthesis), we designed a mixed methods study that involved an audit of patient medical records and qualitative interviews with all stakeholders involved at the UDHS. The results of this investigation were shared with the providers at UDHS, and recommendations for improvements were discussed, some of which were immediately implemented; others are being further reviewed, as they require additional time and planning. The data collected from the audit provided descriptive information on the sample characteristics that include the socio-demographic, general health and oral health characteristics of the patients. The 16-month retrospective audit in Phase I also provided a descriptive assessment of oral healthcare by focusing on the treatment progress of direct restorations carried out by the students. One problem identified was the high prevalence of incomplete planned treatments in the patients' dental records (87.4%), and this was explained using in-depth individual and focus group interviews with all stakeholders in Phase II. The different stakeholders showed many unique and common perspectives. Analysis across the multiple stakeholders' perspectives provided an explanation for the problem through the emergence of four integrated key themes. First: weakness in the 'Structure' of oral healthcare, second: weakness in the interpersonal aspects of the 'Process' of oral healthcare, third: weakness in the clinical aspects of the 'Process' of oral healthcare, and finally: patient population characteristics. These led to either having patients who do not want to / cannot come back or students who do not want to / cannot give appointments to their patients, both of which could cause the problem under study. Including all stakeholders provided an exceptional richness of the data that wouldn't have been possible otherwise. In conclusion, using individual auditing procedures and applying a qualitative methodological approach with all stakeholders in a system can provide information that will enrich understanding and lead to appropriate and effective change.Dans le contexte des cliniques dentaires universitaires, il est non seulement important de tenir compte de la formation des étudiants en dentisterie, mais également de répondre aux besoins des patients des cliniques et de leur offrir des soins dentaires de grande qualité. Une évaluation continue de la qualité nous permet de découvrir et de comprendre les points forts, tout comme les points à améliorer. Cela permettra en retour d'optimiser les bienfaits pour la santé des patients, de faire en sorte que les étudiants en dentisterie reçoivent une expérience clinique adéquate, et de maîtriser les coûts. L'objectif de cette étude est donc de fournir une évaluation descriptive des éléments de la qualité des soins dentaires fournis à des patients adultes à la University Dental Hospital Sharjah (UDHS) en se servant de méthodes de vérification individuelles et d'entretiens en profondeur avec toutes les parties prenantes, dans le but de recommander des interventions efficaces pour améliorer la prise en charge et la prestation des soins dentaires. Nous avons commencé par une revue systématique (RS) de la documentation pour déterminer les aspects des soins qui servent à évaluer la qualité des soins dentaires chez les patients et les prestateurs de soins dans la culture du Moyen-Orient. À partir des résultats de la RS, nous avons planifié une étude à méthodologie mixte qui comprend une vérification des dossiers médicaux des patients et des entretiens qualitatifs avec toutes les parties prenantes concernées à l'UDHS. Les résultats de cette enquête ont été communiqués aux prestateurs de soins de l'UDHS et des recommandations d'améliorations ont été discutées, certaines d'entre elles étant mises en œuvre immédiatement tandis que d'autres faisaient l'objet d'études supplémentaires, puisqu'elles demandaient plus de temps et de planification. Les données de l'évaluation ont fourni des renseignements descriptifs sur les caractéristiques de l'échantillon, notamment les renseignements sociodémographiques de même que les caractéristiques de la santé générale et de la santé dentaire des patients. La vérification rétrospective de 16 mois de la Phase I a également fourni une évaluation descriptive de soins dentaires en se concentrant sur l'évolution du traitement des restaurations directes effectuées par les étudiants. On a déterminé qu'un des problèmes était la prévalence élevée de traitements planifiés non terminés dans les dossiers dentaires des patients (87,4 %), ce qu'on a expliqué à l'aide d'entretiens en profondeur menés individuellement et en groupes auprès de toutes les parties prenantes pendant la Phase II. Les parties prenantes ont révélé de nombreux points de vue uniques et communs. Une analyse de tous les points de vue multiples des parties prenantes a permis d'expliquer le problème par l'émergence de quatre thèmes intégrés importants : (1) une faiblesse dans la 'structure' des soins dentaires, (2) une faiblesse dans les aspects interpersonnels du 'processus' des soins dentaires, (3) une faiblesse dans les aspects cliniques du 'processus' des soins dentaires et (4) les caractéristiques de la population de patients. Cela s'est traduit soit par des patients qui ne veulent pas / ne peuvent pas revenir, soit par des étudiants qui ne veulent pas / ne peuvent pas donner de rendez-vous à leurs patients, les deux aspects étant susceptibles de causer le problème à l'étude. L'inclusion de toutes les parties prenantes a fourni une richesse de données exceptionnelle qu'il n'aurait pas été possible d'obtenir autrement. En conclusion, l'application d'une démarche méthodologique qualitative à toutes les parties prenantes d'un système peut procurer des renseignements qui enrichissent la compréhension et qui mènent à des changements appropriés et efficace
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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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