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Impact on medium-term individual capacity building from involvement in Participatory Food Costing
No full textFood insecurity is a multifaceted issue that requires further attention in Nova Scotia and throughout the world. Capacity building is considered to be a strategy for improving food security and is suggested to be a benefit of participatory processes. The purpose of the present study was to explore the individual capacity building processes and outcomes of medium-term involvement, defined as greater than four years, in Participatory Food Costing. Seven participants of the Nova Scotia Participatory Food Costing Project who had been involved for at least four years were recruited for this study. All participants were Nova Scotian women and most were affiliated with their local Family Resource Centres. Semi-structured telephone interviews were conducted with each participant and the questions followed the adult learning model. The data were collected, transcribed and coded using the phenomenology approach of qualitative research. Nine main themes emerged through analysis of the interviews: awareness, personal development, participation, readiness to change, influence on others, political impact, self-esteem, project continuity and project growth. These themes were consistent with the dimensions of capacity building that have been outlined in the published literature, indicating evidence for capacity building. The findings of this study demonstrate that capacity building processes and outcomes of those involved in Participatory Food Costing can contribute to solving food security related issues
Determinants of Anishinabeck Infant and Early Childhood Growth Trajectories in Sandy Lake, Ontario
Get PDFIndigenous ways of knowing and being often focus on the health and wellbeing of future generations. Therefore, the health implications for children of First Nations women, who experience a disproportionate prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) compared to non-First Nations women living in Canada, are a priority. Infants born to women with GDM are more likely to have high birthweights, which may influence growth trajectories throughout childhood. Infant nutrition is a priority within this context, where breastfeeding can mitigate cardiometabolic disease risk. Therefore, as part of the Sandy Lake Health and Diabetes Research Project (SLHDP), a community-based research project with Sandy Lake First Nation, we collected longitudinal height and weight data for infants and children under 6 years of age and maternal and child health factors using questionnaires. With these data we characterized growth trajectories over the first 6 years of life and explored associations between early life factors and growth patterns. We also conducted a scoping review of the qualitative literature, and interviews with caregivers in Sandy Lake, to understand infant feeding experiences of Indigenous caregivers.
Weight-for-age (WAZ), height-for-age (HAZ), and BMI-for-age (BAZ) z-scores were calculated using the World Health Organization (WHO) reference data and plotted using generalized additive models, which demonstrated that Sandy Lake infants and children had z-scores above the WHO reference population. Generalized estimating equations and logistic regression revealed a possible role for high birthweight, caregiver BMI, cigarettes in the home, alcohol consumption during pregnancy, and GDM in subsequent growth patterns. Results of the scoping review and the 26 interviews with 32 caregivers in Sandy Lake emphasized a variety of socioecological factors impacting infant feeding experiences with family and culture playing significant roles.
In conclusion, this study is one of the first on Turtle Island (North America) to characterize First Nations infant and child growth and to consider related health and social factors. We identified that infant nutrition is impacted by a variety of factors, highlighting a need for systemic changes that address issues of inadequate income, food and water insecurity, and a lack of cultural safety.Ph.D
Editorial: Where Are We Now, and Where Are We Going
No full textThe creation of the Turtle Island Journal of Indigenous Health (TIJIH) emerged out of conversations in 2018 between an Indigenous professor1 and non-Indigenous graduate students working within Indigenous health research at the University of Toronto. TIJIH was intended to connect graduate students, Indigenous scholars, and Indigenous communities into a platform for work that focused on Indigenous health. The idea has since morphed into the establishment of a peer-reviewed journal and an accompanying Community of Practice (CoP) where people with an interest in Indigenous health can discuss, collaborate, and co-learn
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
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