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To live a residential house for old people: Models of possible cohabitation
No full textBeginning from a intervention inside the organization, characterized by an analysis of Local Culture, the current work produces a contribute concerning the exploration of semeiotic processes, that denote, within residential structures for old people, the construction of the self-representation, of the other significant, and their organization inside models of possible cohabitation
Il sostegno come matrice di significati: resoconto di un intervento con un’associazione di genitori
No full textIn this paper we report on the first stage of an intervention, implemented after a request came to our team from the management of an association of parents with children affected by rare genetic and genetic-metabolic syndromes, concerning the provision of psychological support for the parents in the association.
The report was used by us and it is presented here as a cognitive process useful in identifying the criteria guiding the construction of the intervention. We will therefore spend some time explaining the connections between theory and practice which, in the context established by the intervention request, oriented our professional action (Carli & Paniccia, 2005). Specifically, we will offer a reflection on the setting-up phase of the intervention, seen as a phase aimed at analysing the demand, defining the growth objectives and constructing the setting (Carli & Paniccia, 2003). This phase used some operative actions (conducted in different times and places, and with different interlocutors) connected to each other by the aim of constructing the setting of the intervention and exploring the symbolic matrix underlying it (Carli, 1987; Carli & Paniccia, 2003; Salvatore & Scotto di Carlo, 2005; Grasso, Cordella & Pennella, 2004). The actions referred to in the report concern: 1) the initial interviews conducted with the client constituted by the management of the association; 2) some group interviews with the members belonging to the enlarged management committee, open to the public 3) some joint meetings with the management committee, the medical team and psychologists; and lastly, 4) study and research activity aimed to understand, in a broader context, the models of meaning that organize the support processes typical of the context of the association of parents with children affected by chronic pathologies and/or disabilities.
This report is the final outcome of a series of accounts, which followed and anticipated the meetings in this phase of the intervention; we adopted reporting as a reflexive methodology designed to understand and control the dynamics of the intervention (Salvatore & Scotto di Carlo, op.cit.), and therefore as a recursive trigger for sense-construction operations which served to identify trajectories of development and to outline the purpose of the process
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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