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Moore, Sarah A.
No full textcurrentPhD Experimental Medicine (University of British Columbia)
MSc Applied Health Sciences (Brock University)
BLRS Therapeutic and Inclusive Recreation (Brock University)
Diploma Therapeutic Recreation (Niagara College)
Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist (CTRS)
I first began studying Therapeutic Recreation (TR) almost 15 years ago and I have worked with a variety of groups including older adults with cognitive impairments, children and adults with developmental disabilities, and children with physical disabilities (cerebral palsy). My primary interest is how engaging in TR programs enhances the lives of our clients and their families. I have spent the last several years researching how the human body adapts to engaging (or not engaging) in physical activity, recreation, and sport.
I participate in life-altering research to help understand barriers to and benefits of play and physical activity in children with and without disabilities and their families. I have an interest in tracking healthy lifestyle behaviours from childhood through adulthood, believing that several adult conditions have pediatric antecedents and targeted early interventions can reduce the likelihood — or delay the onset — of these conditions and improve quality of life.
My research expertise is in the childhood growth and development, movement and play behaviours, and adapted physical activity for children and youth with disabilities. I am interested in assessing the benefits of and barriers to play and physical activity. I have a particular interest in tracking healthy behaviours from childhood through adulthood and believes that several adult conditions have pediatric antecedents. My overall research aims to improve children’s health and quality of life through play and physical activity.https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3712-019
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
Is somatic maturity delayed in adolescents living with perinally acquired HIV?
No full textConference presentation delivered at the Pediatric Work Physiology Conference, Paralia, Greece (2017).
The presentation describes the growth and maturation of a cohort of children from the BC Children's Hospital Oak Tree Clinic who are undergoing combined antiretroviral treatment (cART). It was noted that wtih early initiation of cART, there tends to be less of an effect on a child's pattern of growth and maturity. Children with HIV are typically shorter and less mature than their non-infected counterparts. The study, was a first to assess growth patterns, specifically age at peak height velocity and the adoelscent growth spurt, in children wtih HIV.Not peer reviewedAdolescent development physiologyBC Children's Hospital Oak Tree CliniccART (Combined antiretroviral treatment)Child development physiologySubmitted to a journal. Currently pdf is embargoed indefinately pending journal submission approval
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
Early childhood cardiometabolic profiles predict 2-year gains in adiposity
Full text linkPoster presented at the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology Conference (For the Health of it: Applying Exercise Science Research to Practice), Kelowna, BC (November, 2019).
While most children in Hong Kong have a normal weight, many will transition to overweight/obesity by adulthood. Rates of abdominal obesity and cardiometabolic diseases are as high or higher, and the onset of cardiometabolic risk factors (CMR) earlier in Hong Kong, compared to adult populations from other developed countries. Interventions tend to target fat accrual to prevent cardiometabolic disease, however, early CMR profiles may precede pathological fat accrual. Early identification of children at-risk for future weight gain and CMR may allow for early interventions.</p
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