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Understanding school travel behaviour : an application of the theory of planned behaviour and the construct of habit
Get PDFThe purpose of this thesis was to develop an understanding of active school travel and to investigate the effects of a school-based intervention within the context of an extension of the theory of planned behaviour (Ajzen, 1985, 1991). Specifically, the focus was on understanding the role of habit and cognition in guiding intention and behaviour. This focus was addressed in four studies. The first two studies addressed measurement issues in this area: Study 1 examining the validity and reliability of the Self Report Habit Index (SRHI; Verplanken & Orbell, 2003) as a measure of habit and study 2 examining the validity of a measure of active travel cognition. The third study examined the theory of planned behaviour and the role of habit in predicting active school travel intention and behaviour. Finally, the fourth study examined the effect of a school-based active travel intervention, the Travelling Green resource, at changing these constructs. The findings from the research in this thesis emphasised the importance of both cognition and habit in the prediction of behaviour. However, the ability to change these constructs through the Travelling Green resource was not demonstrated. The implications of these findings in terms of direction for future research and practice are discussed in the final chapter of this thesis.The purpose of this thesis was to develop an understanding of active school travel and to investigate the effects of a school-based intervention within the context of an extension of the theory of planned behaviour (Ajzen, 1985, 1991). Specifically, the focus was on understanding the role of habit and cognition in guiding intention and behaviour. This focus was addressed in four studies. The first two studies addressed measurement issues in this area: Study 1 examining the validity and reliability of the Self Report Habit Index (SRHI; Verplanken & Orbell, 2003) as a measure of habit and study 2 examining the validity of a measure of active travel cognition. The third study examined the theory of planned behaviour and the role of habit in predicting active school travel intention and behaviour. Finally, the fourth study examined the effect of a school-based active travel intervention, the Travelling Green resource, at changing these constructs. The findings from the research in this thesis emphasised the importance of both cognition and habit in the prediction of behaviour. However, the ability to change these constructs through the Travelling Green resource was not demonstrated. The implications of these findings in terms of direction for future research and practice are discussed in the final chapter of this thesis
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
Quality, quality assurance and quality assured practitioners
Get PDFThe need for consumers to differentiate competing products on the grounds of quality has been around since ancient times and, over the centuries, various bodies have been formed with the aim of ensuring consumer confidence in the quality of the goods and services being traded. The goal of standardising the measurable quality of healthcare also has historical precedence and, in more recent times, the requirement for continuing medical education that has now evolved to continuing professional development, is recognised by healthcare professionals as an essential part of enhancing and maintaining their quality of practice. Physio First has continually expanded on this national requirement by championing evidence-based practice, initially through encouraging members to participate in data collection, and most recently in the option, through the analysis of this collected data, of obtaining the status of Quality Assured Practitioner (QAP)
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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