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An Examination of the Influence of Age on Behavioural Thermoregulation Responses During Heat Exposure
Full text linkHeat wave events are increasing in frequency and severity, resulting in many heat-related deaths in older adults. This thesis aimed to develop an understanding of how increasing age impacts thermoregulatory behaviour while exercising during heat exposure. The thesis also looked to identify what, if any, factors influence this relationship.
The first study examined the relationship between age and behavioural thermoregulation during walking exercise in 35°C. Thermoregulatory behaviour was assessed by having participants walk at a self-selected speed that elicited an RPE of 13 in 22°C and 35°C conditions. The multiple regression model did not significantly predict thermoregulatory behaviour (p = 0.406, R2 = 0.156). None of the variables added statistical significance to the prediction (p > 0.05). For the male participants, the multiple regression model did significantly predict thermoregulatory behaviour (p = 0.038, R2 = 0.469).
Age added statistical significance to the prediction (p = 0.005). Men age ≥60 years were less able to implement thermoregulatory behaviours than men aged 0.05. The second study identified factors that influence the diminished ability to reduce exercise intensity in 35°C conditions in older men. No significant differences were evident between men aged 18-35 and ≥60 years in their anthropometry, physical activity and fitness, whole body sweat rate, cardiovascular, or thermal perceptual responses. The older men did not reduce walking speed when exposed to 35°C temperatures, but the young men did. Factors influencing thermoregulatory behaviour in men aged ≥60 years need to be identified as they offer potential intervention strategies to reduce heat stress and heat-related illness risk.
By using pre-warming and radiant heat lamps, the final study investigated the influence of skin and rectal temperature thermoregulatory behaviour in exercising men aged >65 years. Young and older men cycle at a fixed RPE of 13 for 30 min. Trials included a stable ambient control (22°C), changing ambient temperature (22 - 35°C), a pre-warmed stable ambient (rectal elevated 1°C, 22°C ambient), and a pre-warmed changing ambient (rectal elevated by 1°C, 22 - 35°C ambient). Young men implemented thermoregulatory behaviour in response to changing ambient conditions, whereas older men did not (thermoregulatory behaviour scores: Young CHC 1.09 ± 0.12, W+CHC 1.08 ± 0.16. Older CHC 0.94 ± 0.09, W+CHC 0.97 ± 0.07). This was despite similar skin and rectal temperature, and thermal perception responses between the two age groups. Older men are unable to adjust exercise intensity in response to changing ambient conditions, thus skin temperature is a less effective driver of thermoregulatory behaviours in older men than young men.
The primary outcome of this thesis is that older (≥60 years) men do not voluntarily implement thermoregulatory behaviours while exercising in 35°C conditions, whereas younger men do. No physiological or perceptual factors could be identified to explain this inability to implement thermoregulatory behaviours. This has public health implications, as older adults, particularly men, are unable, or unwilling to voluntarily reduce their heat exposure during heat wave events. This will increase their risk of heat-related illness putting strain on health and emergency services. Public health messaging should move to educate adults aged ≥60 years of their insensitivity to heat exposure, the reduced likelihood of them implementing necessary behavioural thermoregulation strategies, and the implications if they do not voluntarily adopt cooling strategies
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
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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