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Pre-settlement and Post-settlement Stressors and Mental Illness Among Immigrants from War-torn Countries in the Middle East: A Scoping Review
No full textViable, Healthy and Safe CommunitiesAbstract Purpose - The purpose of this review to map the current studies and the range to which pre-settlement and post-settlement stressors impact the mental health of both immigrants and refugees from Middle Eastern war-torn countries. This will assist researchers in this field to first narrow the current gap of lacking proper studies around this topic. Secondly, establish some guidance in better understanding and discovering Middle Eastern immigrants' issues and concerns around their mental health status. Design/Methodology/Approach - A germinal methodological framework to establish a scoping review (Arksey and O'Malley, 2005) was utilized in this study. The author launched a search for published and unpublished research in the last 25 years. The lead investigator retrieved ten eligible studies which the results were taken from to measure the impact of pre-settlement and post-settlement stressors on the mental health of Middle Eastern immigrants settling in North America, Australia, and Europe as well. Findings - Findings from this study showed that Middle Eastern immigrants from war-torn countries suffer from higher rates of mental health illnesses. Findings also found no association between the status of being either immigrant or refuge and having more pre-stressors or post-stressors as the migration process itself can negatively affect both immigrants and refugees. There was also a clear knowledge gap on both immigrants' experiences before their settlement and after settlement as well. The study highlights the absence of appropriate settlement programs that are directed to serve Middle Eastern immigrants. Conclusion - This scoping review is the beginning to an entire process of expanding the current knowledge gap and improving the existing services to accommodate Middle Eastern immigrants better. Researchers in the field need to conduct further interviews among Middle Eastern immigrants in those three continents to bring concrete knowledge, and evidence of the types of pre-settlement and post-settlement stressors immigrants are facing
Logistic Regression Model: The Effect of Chemotherapy on 10 Year Survival for Women with Colon Cancer
No full textColon cancer is a widespread form of treatable cancer common among many populations in the United States and Canada. In this particular logistic regression model, the database took place in California, United States and is part of a cancer registry-based colon cancer cohort which included 6300 people who resided in California between the years 1995 and 2000. This data base was approved to be used for our quantitative data analysis course at the University of Windsor, School of Social Work, to students at the level of doctorate studies. This original logistic regression model will look at the effects of chemotherapy on ten year survival for women with colon cancer. This model will look at women in particular and if they are associated with shorter survival rates. The model also looks at age groups of women along with their stage of colon cancer. The model will finally test an interaction effect between being a black woman and poverty groups and also between the refusals of chemotherapy among black women with colon cancer. This secondary data analysis sample is restricted to 3012 participants which accounts for almost 92% of the women included in this sample. Results showed a strong relationship between chemotherapy treatment and 10 years survival of colon cancer. Women who received chemotherapy are almost ten times as likely to have a high survival rate for 10 years as those who did not receive chemotherapy treatment. Benefits of early diagnoses, and the importance of chemotherapy care among different groups of poverty can negatively influence the survival time of women. Generalized findings towards bigger populations as the impact can apply to other minority groups in the United States and Canada
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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