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Soliciting and providing online social support in the self-disclosure of eating disorders / Nur Azwin Zulkarnain
Get PDFEating disorders (ED) are considered as one of the mental health problems that require much attention and support. The present study focuses on the online construction of selfdisclosure of individuals suffering from ED and demonstrate how strategies of soliciting
and providing online social support, as well as their level of directness are mediated
within the public sphere. The participations of individuals with ED in online support
groups are more preferred due to it being more accessible and non-costly compared to
offline settings (McCormack, 2010). Even so, Basile (2004) argued how not many of
them have the courage to disclose about their illness and prefer secrecy. This serves as
motivation for data to be collected from one of the discussion forums on the National
Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) website, the Working Toward Recovery forum. A
total of 113 relevant posts of self-disclosure containing instances of online solicitation
and provision of support dated from January 2018 to March 2018 are analyzed using the
computer-mediated discourse analysis method. As for the frameworks of the study, North’s (1997) Strategies of Soliciting Social Support, Cross-Cultural Study of Speech Act Realization Patterns (CCSARP) by Blum-Kulka and Olshtain (1984), and McCormack’s (2010) Categories of Social Support are adopted. The findings have shown consistent result with past studies where sharing of experience is regarded as the most
frequent strategy of soliciting support opted by online support-seekers, while having to
show appreciation appears to be the least. Most posts that consist of shared experience
are comparably lengthier than those that do not as they usually involve detailed
explanation of the individuals’ problems. With regards to providing social support, almost
half of the strategies were found to be in the form of encouragements, followed by providing personal opinions as the second most utilized. Further, encouragement and
esteem were inferred to be primarily used as a source of mitigation and followed by other
strategies that could have the possibility of impositions. In addition, the findings also
revealed a common pattern of directness in the acts of soliciting and providing support.
Even via a direct solicitation of support, it would commonly result with the support being
provided indirectly, and occasionally a more direct one. However, an indirect supportsolicitation
would also lead to support-providers being indirect with their manners of
supporting as well and they are rarely direct. Thus, believing that support-providers prefer
to approach ED patients indirectly as a way to cushion their manners of supporting rather
than being completely explicit in terms of language used. Despite the ability of being
anonymous in an online setting, support-providers have shown a positive attitude in
assuring that the social support acquired by ED patients is delivered in a way that it can
be regarded as acceptable, appropriate and not imposing. Even when the support attained
in the NEDA forum is presumed to be willingly solicited by ED patients as their
participation in the forum is based on their own intuition, maximum acceptance of the
support is still a priority to those who provide it
Epistemic modality in scientific research articles on coronavirus / Nur Azwin Zulkarnain
No full textThe recent COVID-19 created many uncertainties due to its novel and lethal nature,
particularly during its early detection. The coronavirus has been a concern for many years
(Farhud et al., 2021) but the various uncertainties associated with it often complicated
things for scientists to arrest the disease (Orso et al., 2020). The study examined the
semantic manifestation of epistemic modality as a way for scientific authors to display
their levels of certainty in research. Specifically, it probed into the relationship between
the semantics of epistemic modality and scientific authors’ levels of certainty in their
judgement and knowledge in communicating research findings related to coronavirus. A
series of analyses were conducted on a COVID-19 corpus that consisted of scientific
research articles pertaining to both the recent COVID-19 as well as historical
coronaviruses, amounting to more than 200 million words, retrieved from Sketch Engine.
Word frequency, concordance lines, collocations were employed to identify how
epistemic modality markers were used based on the epistemic modal expressions
suggested by Perkins (1983). The findings were further explained using De Waard and
Maat’s (2012) Taxonomy of Epistemic Evaluation, Chepurnaya’s (2019) Typology of
Epistemic Responsibility, Dong et al.’s (2020) Coronavirus Research Themes, and
Millan’s (2008) Epistemic Strategies. The analyses reveal that scientific authors
portrayed absolute certainty in communicating coronavirus-related information to readers
by utilising the highest level of epistemic modality, especially in conveying information
related to pathogenesis (i.e., the development of the disease) and therapeutics (i.e., the
establishment of reliable drugs and treatments). This type of certainty was primarily
expressed using epistemic adverbs and lexical verbs instead of the standard modal auxiliaries. The high level of certainty in asserting propositions was also closely related
to the availability of evidence which they used to support their claims. Contrastingly,
lower levels of certainty portrayed by scientific authors are mainly concerned with
research on viral genomics. This portrayal is often found to be realised via modal
auxiliaries, which denotes the intention of these experts to mask obvious signs of
uncertainties as such epistemic tool is commonly associated with some ambiguity and
causes difficulties in interpretation (Nemickienė, 2015). Nonetheless, the many different
ways of expressing certainty by these epistemic strategies also result in various semantic
functions that can be comprehended in which they are found to be highly influenced by
context. Thus, in spite of the uncertainties that characterised much of early stages of
coronavirus outbreaks, scientific authors carefully presented themselves as
knowledgeable and confident experts in the field, possibly out of the need to calm the
public as well as provide actual solutions. By conducting this research, it shed light on
the utility of epistemic modality by scientific authors and how it assisted the presentation
of information on coronavirus in research articles as a means to improve crisis
communication during outbreaks
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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