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Climbing as a couple: How sighted coaches and visually impaired athletes coordinate their perception and action in indoor guided climbing training
No full textA situated analysis of instructions in paraclimbing training with visually impaired athletes
No full textIndoor sport climbing performed by athletes with visual impairment is realized by trainer and climber working as a couple and is routinely based on instructions. It can be considered a perspicuous setting (Garfinkel, 2002) for investigating how sighted and visually impaired participants coordinate their perception and actions in the material environment while accomplishing mobile tasks. Drawing on previous ethnomethodological and CA studies on instructions in mobile activities, the analysis of an excerpt of a guided climbing session provides the ground for a detailed description of some features of instructions that are specific to this context. The analysis aims at showing that the trainer’s instructions are not only timely adjusted to the course of action, but, importantly, that they also display the trainer’s orientation to the climber’s sensory impairment
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
A mixed methods study of the impact of providing therapy to traumatized clients: vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, and vicarious posttraumatic growth in mental health therapists
Get PDFUniversity of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. July 2014. Major: Educational Psychology. Advisor: John L. Romano. 1 computer file (PDF); v, 155 pages, appendix p. 146-155.The purpose of this research was to examine the impact of trauma therapy work on mental health professionals who work with traumatized clients. ANOVA's were used to compare participants by experience and exposure level on measures of vicarious trauma (VT) compassion satisfaction (CS), and vicarious posttraumatic growth (VPTG). MANOVA was used to compare participants by experience and exposure level on the two components of compassion fatigue (CF), burnout (BO) and secondary traumatic stress (STS). A hierarchical regression equation was used to explore whether STS and VT predicted VPTG. In addition, a qualitative component examined negative and positive effects of the therapy work. The results of the study were: There were no differences on mental health professionals' scores of VT, STS and BO, or CS based on differences of mental health professionals' exposure to traumatized clients. There were significant differences between high and low exposure caseload groups on scores of VPTG; participants in the high exposure group had significantly higher scores of VPTG than participants in the low exposure group. There were no differences on amount of VT, STS and BO, or CS and VPTG as a result of differences among mental health professionals' experience level. A hierarchical regression analysis showed that the predictor variables of STS and VT did not increase the percentage of variance accounted for by the dependent variable, VPTG, which was already accounted for by the covariate variable of exposure. Main qualitative themes included: experiencing symptoms of VT, and the components of CF (STS and BO), as well as experiencing aspects of VR, VPTG, and CS.Froman, Monica Simone. (2014). A mixed methods study of the impact of providing therapy to traumatized clients: vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, and vicarious posttraumatic growth in mental health therapists. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/165355
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
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