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Exploring Numeracy Development Across the Lifespan: Comparing Symbolic and Non-Symbolic Representations
No full textResearch on numeracy development is increasingly relevant due to its importance across the lifespan, impacting academic achievement in children, work success in adults, and managing everyday demands in elders. Despite this, few studies directly address the issue. To investigate numeracy development, we administered a PC-presented parity judgment (PJ) task to children, young adults, and elderly participants, collecting response accuracy and reaction time (RT). Our task included Arabic digits (symbolic), dots (non-symbolic), and finger-based representations, as numeracy may be associated with both symbolic and non-symbolic formats. Fingers promote numerical skills development from early childhood (e.g. Noel, 2005), and several studies highlight a physiological association between fingers and number representations even in adults (e.g. Rusconi et al., 2005). By including finger-based numerical representation we aimed to verify whether access to quantity representation conveyed by fingers follows the same pattern as non-symbolic numerical format (dots) or is closer to Arabic symbols. The research sample consisted of 96 participants: 22 8-year-old children (17F), 21 10-year-old children (13F), 22 elderly participants (10F; M= 68.5 years; range 62-79); 31 young adults (16F; M= 24.13 years; range 19-37). Analyses were conducted using Mixed Effects Models. For accuracy, results showed a main effect of Age and Condition (Arabic, fingers, dots): 8-year-olds performed significantly lower than young adults and the elderly (p < .001), and 10-year-old children performed similarly to adults and the elderly. Regarding Condition, dot performance was significantly lower than that with Arabic digits (p < .001) while correct responses with fingers and Arabic digits did not differ. For RTs, the main factor Age was significant: 8-year-olds had significantly longer RTs than other groups in all conditions, while 10-year-old children did not differ from young adults and the elderly. In conclusion, a developmental trend regarding accuracy aligns performances when presented with stimuli represented by fingers and Arabic digits, supporting the hypothesis of a stronger association between hands and numbers compared to dots. RTs, however, do not seem to support this finding as no differences were found between the different stimulus presentation modalities. Limitation: small sample size
Empowering Visuo-spatial Abilities Among Italian Primary School Children: From Theory to Practice
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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
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
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