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Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe 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
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Letter from R. R. Zellick, Assistant Trust Officer, Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco, to Joseph R. Goodman, October 2, 1942
No full textLetter from R. R. Zellick, Assistant Trust Officer at The Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco, to Joseph R. Goodman, regarding property owned by Dave Tatsuno. Zellick mentions a dispute between current tenants and Tatsuno, and that Tatsuno has asked Goodman to help locate trustworthy tenants.Personal correspondence, organizational records, government documents, publications, and other papers created or collected by Joseph R. Goodman documenting the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, as well as organized resistance to incarceration. Included in the collection are records of the Japanese Young Men's Christian Association and the Japanese American Citizens' League in San Francisco, including papers of the Japanese YMCA's executive secretary Lincoln Kanai; Sakai family papers; Goodman's correspondence to and from Japanese American incarcerees, organizations opposing forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, the War Relocation Authority, and others; publications, photographs, and ephemera from the Topaz Relocation Center, where Goodman taught high school; War Relocation Authority records and publications; and newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and reports about forced removal and incarceration created by various government, religious, and civic organizations, in California and nationwide
Influencing Factors on Patients’ Length of Stay in an Emergency Department of a Training Hospital
No full textBackground & Objectives: Patients’ length of stay in emergency departments is one of the key criterion which has been focused by hospital managers recently. This study aimed to assess the influencing factors on patients’ length of stay in an emergency department of a training hospital affiliated by Alborz Medical University of Medical Sciences.
Methods: This was a descriptive-analytical study with a cross-sectional design in 2017. Study population consisted of all inpatients in a six month time period from the beginning of the study year. Through the use of Cochrane sample size calculation formula 555 numbers of samples were selected which their related data were obtained from the review of patients’ medical records. To test study hypotheses data were entered to a SPSS version 20 and analyzed through descriptive statistical analysis method, Pearson correlation test, t-test, and ANOVA.
Results: Mean of patients’ length of stay was 11.31 hours. Evidence showed that this mean time was correlated with some of the factors including internal or external medical counseling, the necessity to have a medical laboratory test, a medical imaging test or the time interval between triage and the first physician’s visit.
Conclusion: Modifying hospital processes and performance procedures in an emergency department with an aim to improve service quality and effective interactions among different hospital units can play a helpful role in solving existing problems.
Key¬words: Length of Stay, Emergency Department, Training Hospital, Inpatients
Citation: Bagheri Z, Rafiei S, Mohebbifar R. Influencing Factors on Patients’ Length of Stay in an Emergency Department of a Training Hospital. Journal of Health Based Research 2019; 4(4): 371-81. [In Persian
The Relationship between Organizational Health and Perception of Organizational politics in Educational Hospitals of Qazvin University of Medical Sciences
No full textBackground & Objectives: Creating a healthy environment that is based on organizational justice leads to a healthy organization and can be used to promote complex organizations such as hospitals. The main purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between organizational health and perception of organizational politics in educational hospitals of Qazvin University of Medical Sciences.
Methods: This descriptive-analytic study was performed on 371 staff members of educational hospitals in Qazvin/ Iran selected through simple stratified sampling method. Organizational Health Questionnaire adapted from Parsons Pattern and Kachmr and Carlson’s (1997) Perceptions of Organizational Politics Scale were used for data collecting. Data analysis was done through SPSS20 and using Chi-square, independent t-test, Pearson correlation coefficient and stepwise multivariate regression analysis.
Results: In the studied hospitals, organizational health from the perspective of employees was in high and very high levels in 76.8% of cases and organizational politics was high in 8.9% cases. There was a significant inverse relationship between organizational politics and organizational health; that is, reduction of organizational politics was significantly associated with organizational health increase (P=0.069).
Conclusion: It is necessary to pay special attention to health and organizational politics in hospitals and to create an environment with more efficient organizational relationships among staff. It is also recommended to define and determine the levels of organization clearly and to take the necessary measures to improve the organizational climate.
Key¬words: Perceptions of Organizational Politics, Organizational Health, Educational Hospital, Staff
Citation: Jafarzadeh D, Mohebbifar R, Shishechi R, Bahreini R. The Relationship between Organizational Health and Perception of Organizational politics in Educational Hospitals of Qazvin University of Medical Sciences. Journal of Health Based Research 2017; 3(2): 151-161
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
The Impact of Organizational Reward on Employee Performance with Mediating Role of Motivation in Teaching Hospitals of Qazvin
No full textIntroduction: Human resources are the main sources of production and basic capital in every
organization. Reward management is one of the effective approaches used by the
organizations to attract and retain employees in their work place. The aim of this study was to
investigate the effect of organizational reward system on performance of administrative and
support employee through increasing their motivation in teaching hospitals of Qazvin, 2015.
Methods: This cross-sectional descriptive-analytical study was conducted on 326 employees
selected from three departments (administrative, support, and management) of 5 teaching
hospitals of Qazvin in 2015. The questionnaires used in this study include demographic
questionnaire (11 questions related to demographic characteristics), Waruni research
questionnaire (8 questions related to organizational reward), Herzberg's two-factor
questionnaire (37 questions related to employee motivation), and Stephen's research-based
questionnaire (19 questions related to employee performance). Data were analyzed using
SPSS 23 and LISREL 8.8. To test the study hypothesis, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA)
and structural equation modelling (SEM) were applied.
Results: Findings revealed that organizational reward (both extrinsic and intrinsic) had an
influential effect on the employee motivation. Furthermore, either directly or with mediating
role of motivation, organizational reward had a direct significant effect on employee
performance (P≤0.05).
Conclusion: Identification and increasing motivating factors in employees, especially those
who are under more work pressure, can significantly improve their performance.
Keywords: Motivation, Teaching Hospital, Organizational Reward, Performance
Citation: Mohebbifar R, Bakhshian M, Rafiei S. The Impact of Organizational Reward on Employee Performance with
Mediating Role of Motivation in Teaching Hospitals of Qazvin. Journal of Health Based Research 2016; 2(3): 223-232
Liftings for noncomplete probability spaces
No full textThe current state of knowledge concerning liftings for noncomplete probability spaces is discussed. This is a somewhat expanded version of the author's talk given at the 1991 Summer Conference on General Topology and Applications in Honor of Mary Ellen Rudin and Her Work.PT: S; CR: BURKE MR, IN PRESS P AM MATH S BURKE MR, 1991, ISRAEL J MATH, V73, P33 BURKE MR, 1992, ISRAEL J MATH, V79, P289 CARLSON T, THEOREM LIFTING CHRISTENSEN JPR, 1974, TOPOLOGY BOREL STRUC FREMLIN DH, 1989, HDB BOOLEAN ALGEBRAS, P877 INOESCUTULCEA A, 1966, 5TH P BERK S MATH ST, V2 IONESCUTULCEA A, 1967, CONTRIBUTIONS PROB 1, P63 IONESCUTULCEA A, 1969, TOPICS THEORY LIFTIN JECH TJ, 1978, SET THEORY JOHNSON RA, 1980, P AM MATH SOC, V80, P234 JUST W, IN PRESS T AM MATH S KUPKA J, 1983, INDIANA U MATH J, V32, P717 LOSERT V, 1983, LNM, V1080, P95 MAHARAM D, 1958, P AM MATH SOC, V9, P987 SHELAH S, 1983, ISRAEL J MATH, V45, P90 TALAGRAND M, 1982, P AM MATH SOC, V84, P379 VONNEUMANN J, 1931, CRELLES J MATH, V165, P109; NR: 18; TC: 0; J9: ANN N Y ACAD SCI; PG: 4; GA: BZ86BSource type: Electronic(1
Hansen, Lee (Lee R.). Union, non-union, and managerial pay plan state employees, 2008-2019
No full text1 online resource (2 pages)"July 1, 2021."Provides the number of union and non-union state employees in each of the last 14 years. Also provides the number of state employees paid under the state's managerial pay plan during each of those years. Updates OLR research report 2019-R-011
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