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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
Dotação segura para a prática de enfermagem : um contributo para a gestão de unidades de saúde
Full text linkA necessidade de adequação dos recursos de enfermagem às reais necessidades dos clientes, mantendo um equilíbrio entre a quantidade e as competências, não descurando a qualidade e segurança, tem constituído uma preocupação para os gestores. A ausência de uma metodologia consensual de suporte à operacionalização da dotação segura em enfermagem, constituiu-se como o ponto de partida desta investigação, que tem como principal objetivo desenvolver um modelo explicativo de Dotação Segura em Enfermagem (DSE) e identificar perfis de DSE. Na primeira fase efetuou-se um estudo qualitativo, exploratório, descritivo, com enfermeiros gestores, através de entrevista semiestruturada. Emergiram as Características essenciais do conceito DSE, algumas Variáveis extrínsecas passíveis de influenciar a DSE e identificaram-se indicadores de DSE. Numa segunda fase realizou-se estudo de carácter quantitativo, transversal e correlacional. A recolha de dados efetivou-se através de questionário em três amostras: enfermeiros (629), enfermeiros chefes (43) e clientes (1290), internados em 43 unidades de 8 hospitais com diferentes modelos de gestão. Os estudos de avaliação psicométrica através de análises fatoriais exploratórias e confirmatórias dos instrumentos de medida demonstraram validade e fiabilidade adequadas. As técnicas de Modelação de Equações Estruturais e da Análise de Clusters, comprovaram relações entre as variáveis de Estrutura, Processo e Resultados, tendo sido identificados dois perfis de DSE e estudado o seu impacto nos Resultados (confirmados 15 indicadores de Resultado sensíveis à DSE). A análise da relação entre as variáveis de Estrutura, de Processo e de Resultados da DSE evidenciou a influência das variáveis de Estrutura sobre os Resultados, bem como das variáveis de Processo sobre as de Resultados. A “Disponibilidade de enfermeiros com a combinação adequada de competências”, a “Disponibilidade de enfermeiros em quantidade adequada” e o “Ambiente seguro” (variáveis de Estrutura) explicam 2% da variância das variáveis de “Prestação de cuidados de enfermagem de qualidade” (variáveis de Processo),15% da variância da “Satisfação dos clientes”, 94% da variação do “Risco e da ocorrência de eventos adversos nos clientes” (variáveis de Resultado Clientes), 25% da variação de “Resultados Enfermeiros” e 100% da variação dos “Resultados Organização”. A “Disponibilidade de enfermeiros na quantidade adequada” indica um efeito direto e positivo nos “Resultados Organização” e nos “Resultados nos Enfermeiros” e nos “Resultados nos Clientes”. A “Disponibilidade de enfermeiros com combinação adequada de competências” denota um efeito significativo e positivo sobre os “Resultados nos Enfermeiros”.Relativamente à influência do Processo nos Resultados, verificou-se um efeito direto da “Prestação de cuidados de enfermagem de qualidade” na dimensão “Resultados nos Clientes” (“Satisfação dos clientes”, e “Risco e ocorrência de eventos adversos”). Das Variáveis extrínsecas à DSE o “Modelo de Gestão” da organização demonstrou um efeito significativo sobre as variáveis de Estrutura e de Resultados da DSE. A análise de Clusters expôs dois perfis de dotação das equipas de enfermagem diferenciados; o mais seguro presente em 55,8% dos serviços, surgiu maioritariamente nos hospitais com modelo de gestão “Entidade Pública Empresarial”, em serviços com taxas de ocupação mais baixas e menor carga de trabalho para os enfermeiros, com índices mais elevados de satisfação dos clientes com os cuidados de enfermagem, com menor risco/ ocorrência de sofrerem eventos adversos e com menores índices de rotatividade dos enfermeiros. O modelo DSE proposto dá resposta à efetividade da dotação de enfermagem e demonstra em simultâneo o seu efeito sobre os resultados observados. Releva-se a necessidade de maior atenção e preocupação com as questões da DSE, nomeadamente na constituição das equipas, tendo por base o mix de competências, sendo a formação e supervisão cruciais para a qualidade dos processos desenvolvidos e resultados obtidos. Adverte-se para uma atenção especial à carga de trabalho a que os profissionais de enfermagem estão sujeitos e à necessidade em contemplar no financiamento em saúde, as questões relacionadas com a Dotação Segura em Enfermagem que se constitui, como uma condição essencial para a qualidade, sustentabilidade e desenvolvimento das organizações de saúde.The need to adequate nursing resources to the real needs of clients, maintaining a balance between quantity and skills, without neglecting quality and safety, has been a concern for managers. The absence of a consensual methodology to support the implementation of secure nurse staffing, was established as the starting point for this investigation which main goal was to develop an explanation model of Safe Nurse Staffing (SNS) and identify profiles of SNS. In the first phase we conducted a qualitative, exploratory, descriptive study with nursing managers, through semi-structured interview. Essential characteristics of SNS concept and some extrinsic variables capable of influence the SNS emerged and SNS indicators were identified. In a second phase, a study of a quantitative, transversal and correlational character was conducted. Data collection was achieved through a three sample questionnaire: nurses (629), chief-nurses (43) and clients (1290), admitted to 43 units in 8 hospitals with different management models. Psychometric assessment studies were followed through factorial exploratory analysis and confirmatory of the measuring instruments, which demonstrated adequate validity and reliability. Technics of Structural Equation Modelling and Clusters Analysis proved the relationships between Structure, Process and Results variables, identifying two SNS profiles and studied its impact on Results (confirming 15 sensitive to SNS Results indicators). The analysis of the relationship between the SNS’s Structure, Process and Results variables showed the influence of the Structure variables over Results of SNS, as well as Process variables over Results. "Availability of nurses with the right mix of skills", "Availability of nurses in adequate amount" and "Safe environment" (Structure variables) explain 2% of the variable variance of "Provision of quality nursing care" (Process variables), 15% of the variation of "Client satisfaction", 94% of the variation of "Risk and occurrence of adverse events on clients (Clients Result variables), 25% of the variation of "Nurses results" and 100% of the variation of "Organization results ". "Availability of nurses in adequate amount" denotes a direct and positive effect on "Organization Results", on "Nurses Results" and on "Clients Results". "Availability of nurses with appropriate skills mix" reveals a significant and positive effect on "Nurses Results". Regarding the influence of Process on Results, there was a direct effect found on "Provision of quality nursing care" over "Client Results" ("Client satisfaction" and "Risk and occurrence of adverse events"). Of the extrinsic variables to SNS, "Management Model" of the organization showed a significant effect over the Structure and Results variables of the SNS. The Clusters analysis exposed two different nurse staffing models profiles; the safer in 55,8% of the services appeared mostly in hospitals with a “Corporate Public Entity” management model, in services with lower occupancy rates and lower workload for nurses, with higher rates of client satisfaction with nursing care, with lower risk/ occurrence of adverse events and with lower nurse turnover rates. The proposed SNS model responds to nurse staffing effectiveness, showing simultaneously its effect on the observed results. It is noted the need for greater attention and concern for the SNS issues, particularly in setting up the teams, based on the skills mix, where the issues of training and supervision are crucial to the quality of developed processes and obtained results. Special attention is required to the workload that nurse practitioners are subject and to the need that health financing contemplates Safe Nurse Staffing as an essential condition for quality, sustainability and development of healthcare organizations
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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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