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Strategies for Addressing Inequality in Access to Social Welfare for Elderly Individuals with Disabilities, through Participatory Multisectoral Involvement in Uttaradit Province
No full text The purposes of this research were to investigate the conditions and factors influencing inequality in access to social welfare for elderly individuals with disabilities in Uttaradit Province; to develop strategies; and to formulate policy recommendations for strategies addressing the inequality in access to social welfare for elderly individuals with disabilities in Uttaradit Province, utilizing a research methodology that integrates both quantitative and qualitative approaches. Through quantitative research, the study focused on a sample group comprising 205 elderly individuals with disabilities. The sample was selected using a Multi-stage Sampling method. Data were collected through questionnaires and analyzed using frequency distribution, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and Multiple Regression Analysis. For the qualitative research component, in-depth interviews were conducted with four groups of social actors: administrators, operational personnels, community leaders, and local representatives of the elderly or caregivers of the elderly with disabilities in the Uttaradit Province, totaling 20 individuals. The strategies were developed in a focus group, while the evaluation of strategic suitability was performed by experts who specialized in provision of social welfare for elderly people at local and national levels. The data were analyzed with Content Analysis methods. The research findings revealed that the overall situation of inequality in access to social welfare for elderly individuals with disabilities in the Uttaradit Province was at a moderate level. Factors related to policy support, local-level management, service resources, collaboration among relevant organizations, and perception of personal rights contributed jointly to predict the inequality in access to social welfare for elderly individuals with disabilities in the area, accounting for 42.3%. The six formulated strategies included 1) establishing a policy mechanism to promote access to social welfare for elderly individuals with disabilities at the local level, 2) enhancing the quality of social welfare management to meet standards, 3) promoting and connecting collaborative networks across all sectors, 4) advocating proactive measures to promote comprehensive and equal access to social welfare rights, 5) developing knowledge, databases, technological innovations, and community-friendly amenities to support daily living, and 6) monitoring and evaluating the outcomes of social welfare access based on participatory principles. The developed strategies presented a feasible and appropriate overview for practical implementation. With regard to policy recommendations at local level, it should establish canons, ordinances, or regulations for supporting and enhancing the quality of life for elderly and disabled individuals, encourage supplementary occupation, foster saving as well as investment, and expand social care systems for the elderly. At provincial level, it should connect operational plans both departmental and ministerial levels with provincial development plans, empower the support for network partners as well as entrepreneurs to create technology and innovation for rehabilitating elderly individuals with disabilities. At governmental level, it should focus on the integration from operations across multiple sectors to solve the inequality in access to social welfare for elderly individuals with disabilities under dimensions of health, lifelong learning and education, vocational promotion and income, housing, recreation, justice process, and general social services.
Keywords: Strategies for Addressing Inequality, Social Welfare, Elderly Individuals with Disabilitie
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
The Effectiveness of Training in Integrated Psychological Traits and Skills to Enhance Preventive Behaviors against Corona Virus 2019 Infection among the Youths in Community
Full text linkPurpose: This experimental research aimed to study the effectiveness of training in psychological traits and skills towards behaviors of preventing coronavirus 2019.
Methods: The research sample was 120 youths in a community residing in two northern provinces, using a 2 by-2 factorial design. The treatment variables included 1) training in psychological traits and 2) skill training for preventing coronavirus 2019. Outcomes were measured into three phrases: pre-training, immediate post-training, and two months after post-training. Research instruments were rating scale and Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) was employed for hypothesis testing. Result: Study results found that 1) For the immediate post-training phrase, the youths who trained in both psychological traits and skills for preventing Corona Virus demonstrated higher mean scores of future orientation and self-control on preventing Corona Virus, positive attitudes towards Corona Virus prevention behaviors, and preventive behaviors against Corona Virus than those who trained only in skills for preventing Corona Virus. Additionally, 2) For two months after the post-training phrase, the youths who trained in both psychological traits and skills for preventing Corona Virus had higher mean scores of preventive behaviors against Corona Virus than those who trained only in skills for preventing Corona Virus. This clearly revealed the effectiveness of the trainings in this research. Conclusion: This study suggests strategies, measures, or policies from the research findings to governmental agencies, particularly those involved in the community such as subdistrict administrative organization and municipality, advocating the training in both integrated psychological traits and skills to enhance preventive behaviors against the coronavirus for the youths
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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