1,720,988 research outputs found
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
O lugar do lazer no cotidiano das aulas de educação física no âmbito escolar : as maneiras de fazer dos professores do município de Curitiba
Get PDFOrientadora : Profª. Drª. Simone RechiaTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal do Paraná, Setor de Ciências Biológicas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Física. Defesa: Curitiba, 28/07/2017Inclui referências : f. 132-143Resumo: O processo de educação oferecido pela escola, tem se dado de diferentes formas ao longo do desenvolvimento da sociedade. Atualmente, diferentes correntes teóricas sustentam que a Educação deve desenvolver os alunos em todas as suas dimensões, permitindo que os mesmos reflitam, construam e atuem na própria vida de forma consciente e cidadã. Com base neste pressuposto e considerando o tempo/espaço de lazer como parte da vida dos sujeitos, possibilidade de desenvolvimento social e direito garantido pela constituição brasileira, a problemática desta pesquisa versa sobre o "lugar" do lazer no processo ensino-aprendizagem vinculado à Educação Física, enquanto área de conhecimento, presente no currículo da escola. A pesquisa teve como objetivo geral identificar o lugar do fenômeno lazer no cotidiano das aulas da área de Educação Física na escola. Seus objetivos específicos buscaram: 1. Identificar o lugar do lazer nos documentos que norteiam a área de Educação Física no ambiente escolar. 2. Reconhecer quem são os professores pesquisados e o lugar do fenômeno lazer no conjunto da formação docente dos mesmos. 3. Descortinar as maneiras de fazer dos professores de Educação Física e o lugar do lazer em suas práticas cotidianas. Assim, esta pesquisa foi desenvolvida em uma abordagem qualitativa, com a participação dos professores de Educação Física da Rede Municipal de Ensino de Curitiba, materializada em três fases: Na primeira fase vinte e um professores participaram respondendo a um questionário eletrônico. Na segunda fase foram realizadas entrevistas semiestruturadas com nove deles e na terceira fase foram entrevistadas duas responsáveis pelo Departamento de Gestão de Currículos da Secretaria Municipal de Educação de Curitiba. Partindo-se da análise dos dados coletados, foram delimitadas as seguintes categorias de análise: O lugar do fenômeno lazer no conjunto da formação docente dos professores pesquisados; O lugar do lazer nos documentos que norteiam a Educação Física; O lugar do Lazer na prática pedagógica dos professores pesquisados. Ao fim, reconhecemos o esforço dos nove professores pesquisados em qualificar o processo educativo. Podemos afirmar que a Educação para e pelo lazer encontra lugar nas práticas pedagógicas desenvolvidas por estes professores, no entanto, ainda de forma periférica e fragilizada, pois muitas vezes tais práticas se defrontam com um sistema educacional ainda muito fragmentado, conteudista e controlador. Porém encontramos sinais de que novas perspectivas de educação começam a ser trilhadas, possibilitando e reconhecendo o Lazer como dimensão da vida que merece destaque nos currículos e nas práticas escolares para uma formação cidadã. . Palavras-chave: Educação. Escola. Educação Física. Lazer.Abstract: The education process offered by schools has occurred in different ways as society develops. In our days, different theories emphasize that education must develop students in all dimensions, allowing them to reflect, to build and to act in their own lives consciously. Considering this assumption as well as leisure time/space as part of the people's life, the possibility of social development and the right granted by the Brazilian constitution, the research problem of this study discussed the place of leisure at the teaching-learning process linked to the Physical Education (PE) area, as a study area, present at the school curriculum. The general objective of this study was to identify where the leisure phenomenon was situated daily at the schools PE activities. The specific objectives were: 1) To identify the leisure place on the documents that guides the PE area in the school environment. 2) To know who are the teachers selected and where the leisure phenomenon was situated in their background. 3) To show ways that PE teachers place the leisure on their daily practices. Thus, a qualitative approach was used to develop this study, recruiting PE teachers from Municipal Schools of Curitiba City, under 3 phases: On the first phase twenty one PE teachers answered and electronic questionnaire. The second phase nine PE teachers passed through semi structured interviews, and on the third phase, interviews with two persons in charge of the Department of Curriculum Management from the Municipal Education Secretary of Curitiba was applied. For data analyses, the following categories were used: The place of the leisure phenomenon on the formation background of the PE teachers; the place of the leisure in the documents that guide the PE; the place of leisure on the pedagogical practice of the PE teachers. Finally, we recognize the efforts from the nine PE teachers to improve the educational process. We can assure that the education using leisure activities has a place on the pedagogical practices organized by these teachers, although a bit distant and fragile, since several times these practices faced a fragmented educational system, and an inflexible and controlled content. However, we found new signals of educational perspective being constructed, enabling and recognizing leisure as a life dimension that deserves high credits on the curriculum and school practices in order to form responsible citizens. Key words: Education; School; Physical Education; Leisur
Conhecendo os parques de Curitiba e seus espaços públicos destinados as brincadeiras infantis
Get PDFOrientadora : Profa. Dra. Simone RechiaDissertaçao (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do Paraná, Setor de Ciencias Biológicas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educaçao Física. Defesa: Curitiba, 23/03/2012Bibliografia: fls. 134-141Área de concentraçao: Exercício e esporteResumo: Este trabalho tematiza os espaços de lazer destinados às brincadeiras infantis localizados nos parques públicos da cidade de Curitiba, os chamados Parques Infantis. Teve como objetivo diagnosticar quais são os modelos de espaços e brinquedos infantis presentes nos parques públicos da cidade de Curitiba e sua influência nas práticas lúdicas das crianças. Esta pesquisa foi desenvolvida em uma abordagem de cunho sociológica de metodologia qualitativa. Os instrumentos utilizados foram: (1) revisão de literatura, (2) mapeamento dos dados, (3) aplicação do protocolo para os espaços e equipamentos encontrados, (4) análise por meio de registros em diário de campo e fotográficos da dinâmica dos parques infantis, acompanhado da realização de entrevistas semiestruturadas com responsáveis por crianças presentes no local, (5) entrevista com um responsável da Secretaria Municipal de Meio Ambiente da Cidade. Após análise dos dados coletados, surgiram três categorias de análise: Quanto à infraestrutura do entorno do parque infantil, quanto ao espaço do parque infantil em específico e quanto às formas de apropriação destes espaços. Os resultados decorrentes deste estudo identificaram um conjunto de obstáculos referentes à organização e infraestrutura dos parques infantis e seus brinquedos que podem influenciar as vivências lúdicas das crianças, como a falta de implantação e manutenção de bebedouros e lixeiras; banheiros próximos ao espaço em pouca quantidade e pouco acessíveis; falta de brinquedos adaptados, assim como deficiência no cumprimento das normas da ABNT na construção dos mesmos, apontando a emergência de um trabalho conjunto de profissionais de várias áreas no sentido de criar mais oportunidades e qualidade para tais ambientes, pois atualmente os principais espaços públicos destinados à vivência lúdica de crianças no meio urbano são as praças e parques. Porém, mesmo frente às dificuldades encontradas, identificou-se que seja qual for o espaço ou o controle sobre os quais as crianças estão submetidas, aquelas que têm acesso a estes espaços brincarão, o que não justifica ou minimiza a necessidade de melhorias dos mesmos, para qualificar mais as brincadeiras, dando ainda acesso a mais crianças, como crianças especiais e de regiões mais afastadas do centro da cidade. Salientamos, portanto, que torna-se urgente garantir para todas as pessoas uma cultura de espaços públicos abertos de qualidade, com segurança, respeitando, estimulando e favorecendo o potencial lúdico a partir da infância com reflexos sociais por toda vida.Abstract:This paper’s theme is leisure facilities for children's games in public parks located in the city of Curitiba, called playgrounds. It aimed to diagnose which are the models of spaces and children's toys present in public parks of Curitiba and their influence on children's play practices. This research was conducted in a qualitative methodology of a sociological approach. The instruments used were: (1) literature review, (2) mapping data, (3) applying the protocol to the spaces and equipment found, (4) records’ analysis through a field diary and photographs of the dynamics of children parks, accompanied by semi-structured interviews with children’s responsible on site, (5) interview with a Municipal Environment City’s officer. After analyzing the collected data, there were three categories of analysis: The infrastructure surrounding the playground, the specific playground space and the specific forms of appropriation of these spaces. The results arising from this study identified a number of obstacles related to the organization and infrastructure of playgrounds and their toys that can influence children's play experiences, such as lack of implementation and maintenance of water dispensers and garbage cans; short quantity and inaccessible bathrooms next to the space; lack of adapted toys, as well as failing in compliance with ABNT standards in the construction of the same, pointing to the emergency of a working group of professionals from various areas to create more opportunities and quality for such environments, because nowadays the main public spaces destined to children’s play living in urban areas are the squares and parks. However, even in the face of these results, it was identified that whatever the plot or control over which children are subjected, those who have access to these spaces will play, which does not justify or minimize the need for improvement thereof, to qualify the games, giving access to even more children, as special ones and the ones from more remote regions of the city center. We emphasize, therefore, that it is urgently necessary for all people a culture of quality public open spaces, with security, respecting, promoting and encouraging the potential play from the childhood with social consequences for all life
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
- …
