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Workplace support for employees with cancer / by Behdin Nowrouzi.
Get PDFPURPOSE: The aim of this study was to survey human resource personnel about how their northeastern Ontario workplaces assist employees with cancer. METHODS: This crosssectional study sent surveys to 255 workplaces in northeastern Ontario with 25 or more employees from December 2007 to April 2008. There were 101 respondents (39.6% response rate). Logistic regression modelling was used to identify factors associated with more or less workplace support. More or less workplace support was defined as those workplaces that provided employees with paid time for medical appointment, and offered a return to work meeting and reduced hours for employees with cancer. Factors considered in the model
included: organizational size, geographic location (e.g., urban or rural) and workplace type (e.g., private versus public sector). RESULTS: The majority of participants were female (67.4%) and ranged in age from 25 to 70. Respondents reported working for organizations that ranged in size
from 25 to over 9000 employees. In the logistic regression model, large organizational size (OR, 6.97, 95% Cl, 1.34 - 36.2) and public sector (e.g., governmental bodies, education boards and non-profit organizations) (OR, 4.98, 95% Cl, 1.16 - 21.3) were associated with employer assistance. Public sector employers were 5 times more likely, while organizations with more
than 50 employers were almost 7 times more likely to provide employer assistance. The geographic location (i.e., urban or rural workplace) was not associated with employer assistance.
CONCLUSIONS: This study indicates how employers are assisting employees with cancer in their northeastern Ontario workplaces and provides support to foster supportive professional relationships during a difficult period in a worker’s life which necessitates concurrent balance of work life, dealing with a chronic illness, and family responsibilities
What’s on the Minds of CAUCE Members? CAUCE Institutional Members’ Survey 2012
No full textThis paper presents findings based on CAUCE’s 2012 institutional members’ survey. Findings are considered in relation to an earlier iteration of the same survey in 2009. Three important areas for the reader’s consideration emerged. The first is increasing interest by CAUCE members in distance education and technology-supported models and practices. A second key message ties to the value that CAUCE members place on networking with their colleagues. Finally, continuing education units across Canada continue to be valued for their revenue-generating capacity during fiscally challenging times although, at other times, there can be ambivalence towards continuing education
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
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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