1,721,199 research outputs found
A. Bresson, The Making of the Ancient Greek Economy (2016)
No full textManning Joseph Gilbert. A. Bresson, The Making of the Ancient Greek Economy (2016). In: Topoi, volume 21/2, 2017. pp. 487-488
The Ptolemies, the Sea and the Nile. Studies in Waterborne Power. Ed. Kostas Buraselis, Mary Stefanou, and Dorothy J. Thompson, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press (2013)
No full textManning Joseph Gilbert. The Ptolemies, the Sea and the Nile. Studies in Waterborne Power. Ed. Kostas Buraselis, Mary Stefanou, and Dorothy J. Thompson, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press (2013). In: Topoi, volume 20/2, 2015. pp. 619-622
Katherine Blouin, Triangular Landscapes. Environment, Society, and the State in the Nile Delta under Roman Rule. Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy. Oxford : Oxford University Press (2014)
No full textManning Joseph Gilbert. Katherine Blouin, Triangular Landscapes. Environment, Society, and the State in the Nile Delta under Roman Rule. Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy. Oxford : Oxford University Press (2014). In: Topoi, volume 20/2, 2015. pp. 623-626
Communication strategies and persuasion as core components of shared decision-making for children with life-limiting conditions: A multiple case study
Full text linkBackgroundFamilies and professionals caring for children with life-limiting conditions face difficult healthcare decisions. Shared decision-making is promoted in many countries, however little is known about factors influencing these processes. AimTo explore the communication strategies used in shared decision-making for children with life-limiting conditions. DesignA longitudinal, qualitative, multiple-case study. Cases were centred around the child and parent/carer(s). Most cases also included professionals or extended family members. Data from interviews, observations and medical notes were re-storied for each case into a narrative case summary. These were subject to comparative thematic analysis using NVivo11. Setting/participantsEleven cases recruited from three tertiary hospitals in England. 23 participants were interviewed (46 interviews). Cases were followed for up to 12 months between December 2015 and January 2017. 72 observations were conducted and the medical notes of 9 children reviewed.FindingsStrategies present during shared decision-making were underpinned by moral work. Professionals presented options they believed were in the child’s best interests, emphasising their preference. Options were often presented in advance of being necessary to prevent harm, therefore professionals permitted delay to treatment. Persuasion was utilised over time when professionals felt the treatment was becoming more urgent and when families felt it would not promote the child’s psychosocial wellbeing. ConclusionsCommunication strategies in shared decision-making are underpinned by moral work. Professionals should be aware of the models of shared decision-making which include such communication strategies. Open discussions regarding individuals’ moral reasoning may assist the process of shared decision-making
Effectiveness of preventative care strategies for reducing pressure injuries (PIs) in children aged 0-18 admitted to intensive care: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Full text linkIntroduction: The development and prevention of pressure injuries is a complex phenomenon, dependent on a wide variety of extrinsic and intrinsic risk factors. Children with critical illness form an extremely vulnerable patient group with an exceptionally high risk of immobility-related and medical device-related pressure injuries. Recent reviews on this subject matter largely been focused on adult patients. The aim of this review is to systematically synthesise the evidence on the most effective interventions to prevent pressure injury development in children admitted to intensive care.Methods: Four electronic databases; CINAHL, MEDLINE, EMBASE and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials were searched. Studies were screened at three stages, title, abstract, and full text against the inclusion and exclusion. Quality appraisal was conducted using the Joanna Briggs Institute Critical Appraisal Tools and two authors independently extracted study data from included studies using a predesigned data collection form. A meta-analysis was performed using RevMan 5.Results: After removal of duplicates, twenty studies met the inclusion criteria. Observed interventions included; use of risk assessment tool, preventative skin regimes, nutrition, repositioning, support surfaces, medical devices care, and staff education and training. A bundle intervention approach was used to implement pressure ulcer preventative strategies. Meta-analysis demonstrated an associated 51% potential reduction in pressure injury post intervention (pooled OR 0.49 (95% confidence Interval (CI) 0.39 – 0.62) P < 0.0001).Conclusion: Pressure injury preventative strategies are more likely to reduce the number and severity of pressure injuries. Paediatric nurses are pivotal members of the direct care multidisciplinary team with unique expertise and influence over the risk assessment, implementation and maintenance of pressure injury preventative strategies for children admitted to intensive care
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Who Follows the Elephant Will Have Problems: Thought on Modelling Roman Responses to Climate (Changes)
No full textEmerging societal complexity is closely linked to water systems within archaeology. When studying water-based societies, climate is usually conceptualized as an external force. Such an perspective risks missing how societal agents change both meaning and effects of climatic changes. This chapter proposes to develop an model-approach based on continuous interactions between humans and landscapes. The examples come from three case studies outside the Roman world: the Hohokam (500–1500 AD, current Arizona), the Zerqa Triangle, Jordan, during the Late Bronze Age (c. 1300–1100 BC), and the Maya city of Tikal (250 AD–900 AD, current Guatemala). The ideas that can be developed through these cases are compared to conceptualizations from recent publications discussing modelling of/in the Roman world. In general, this chapter argues that larger-scale and longer-term correlations have to be explained in terms of causalities between short-term agencies.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Water Resource
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
- …
