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NARRATING BELONGING: SOMALI ADULTS’ EXPERIENCES OF ACCULTURATION AND IDENTITY
Get PDFAcculturative stress is a significant challenge for immigrants, affecting their mental well-being and integration into a new culture. This research delves into the coping strategies and cultural identity maintenance of Somali adults in Minnesota, using narrative inquiry principles. By conducting in-depth semi-structured interviews with 10 participants, this qualitative dissertation captures detailed narratives that illustrate the complexities of acculturation. The participants, varying in age, gender, and length of U.S. residence, shared their personal experiences, providing insights into how cultural, behavioral, and environmental factors influence their adaptation. Thematic analysis was employed to identify recurring themes and establish a strong theoretical framework based on the participants' experiences. Key findings highlight the significance of community support, religious practices, and personal resilience in helping Somali adults manage acculturative stress and maintain their cultural identity. These elements not only help to reduce the effects of acculturative stress but also strengthen the participants' connection to their heritage and promote community unity. This research addresses notable gaps in the existing literature by highlighting positive coping strategies often overlooked in studies that mainly focus on the adverse outcomes of acculturation, such as mental health issues and social isolation. The insights gained not only have the potential to improve academic understanding of immigrant acculturation but can also provide valuable information for future research and community initiatives aimed at facilitating smoother cultural integration
NARRATING BELONGING: SOMALI ADULTS’ EXPERIENCES OF ACCULTURATION AND IDENTITY
Get PDFAcculturative stress is a significant challenge for immigrants, affecting their mental well-being and integration into a new culture. This research delves into the coping strategies and cultural identity maintenance of Somali adults in Minnesota, using narrative inquiry principles. By conducting in-depth semi-structured interviews with 10 participants, this qualitative dissertation captures detailed narratives that illustrate the complexities of acculturation. The participants, varying in age, gender, and length of U.S. residence, shared their personal experiences, providing insights into how cultural, behavioral, and environmental factors influence their adaptation. Thematic analysis was employed to identify recurring themes and establish a strong theoretical framework based on the participants' experiences. Key findings highlight the significance of community support, religious practices, and personal resilience in helping Somali adults manage acculturative stress and maintain their cultural identity. These elements not only help to reduce the effects of acculturative stress but also strengthen the participants' connection to their heritage and promote community unity. This research addresses notable gaps in the existing literature by highlighting positive coping strategies often overlooked in studies that mainly focus on the adverse outcomes of acculturation, such as mental health issues and social isolation. The insights gained not only have the potential to improve academic understanding of immigrant acculturation but can also provide valuable information for future research and community initiatives aimed at facilitating smoother cultural integration
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
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
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