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Oxford textbook of palliative medicine /
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index.Palliative medicine in non-malignant disease / edited by Stein Kaasa ... [et al.] -- Paediatric palliative medicine / edited by Marie Fallon -- Geriatric palliative medicine / edited by Russ Portenoy and Nicholas Christakis -- Psychiatric, psychosocial, and spiritual issues in palliative medicine / edited by Nathan I. Cherny and Stein Kaasa -- Medical rehabilitation and the palliative care patient / edited by Marie Fallon -- Complementary therapies in palliative medicine / edited by Russ Portenoy -- Palliative care in the home / edited by Debbie Ashby -- The terminal phase / edited by Nicholas Christakis and Nathan I. Cherny -- Education and training in palliative medicine / edited by Marie Fallon.The worldwide status of palliative care / edited by Russ Portenoy, Debbie Ashby, and Stein Kaasa -- The challenge of palliative medicine / edited by Nicholas Christakis and Stein Kaasa -- The interdisciplinary team / edited by Stein Kaasa ... [et al.] -- Ethical issues / edited by Nathan I. Cherny -- Communication and palliative medicine / edited by Nicholas Christakis and Nathan I. Cherny -- Research in palliative medicine / edited by Nicholas Christakis and Nathan I. Cherny -- The principles of drug use in palliative medicine / edited by Stein Kaasa -- Disease modifying management in advanced cancer / edited by Stein Kaasa, Nathan I. Cherny, and Debbie Ashby -- The management of common symptoms and disorders / edited by Stein Kaasa ... [et al.] -- Issues in specific neoplastic disease / edited by Stein Kaasa, Marie Fallon, and Russ Portenoy -
Faculty Presentations
No full textNicholas Christakis, Sol Goldman Family Professor of Social and Natural Science, Co-Director, Yale Institute for Network Science
David Rand, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology
Andrew Papachristos, Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociolog
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
Assessing Nonprofit Networks Prior to Funding: Tools for Foundations to Determine Life Cycle Phase and Function
Get PDF· Foundations and other funders can use life cycle analysis tools to determine a nonprofit network’s stage of development and functional characteristics as a precursor to funding network activities. Characteristics that determine a network’s readiness for funding include network cohesion (trust and communication), cooperation (mutual purpose and goals), and capacity for externally focused action.
· Network Mindset Survey analysis can help determine a network’s readiness for funding by measuring members’ understanding of the power and utility of networks; degree of membership engagement; identification of specific, common concerns; and readiness for productive action.
· Three networks that received foundation support for networking principles, mapping, and mindset were analyzed using the Network Mindset Survey tool and were found to be at different functional phases. Analyses assisted in providing next-steps recommendations that were appropriate to the life cycle phase of each network.
· Network Sustainability Survey analysis helped to determine the ability of trained “network weavers” to advance network interests and foster members’ efforts. Network weaver responses to the Network Sustainability Survey tool helped to provide recommendations for increased network development and sustainability.
· The inquiries and analyses generated by this study provide insights for foundations and other funders that are interested in establishing, supporting, and expanding community improvements through the synergy of networks
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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