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Gestational surrogacy, ethics and the family
No full textThere is an increasing demand for gestational surrogacy in current reproductive medicine practice. Infertile couples often engage overseas surrogates, which increases the risk for legal and ethical complications. This book provides clinical guidance on the provision of gestational surrogacy on a worldwide basis, with brief summaries of the legal position within countries where it is offered. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of surrogacy for clinicians, counsellors, attorneys, legislators and anyone interested in reproductive health policy by filling an immediate niche as a resource for those interested in third-party reproductive treatments
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
Patient Access to Medical Records: Should Malaysia Widen Patient Access?
Full text linkThe Malaysian approach to patient access to personal medical records has been ambiguous. Currently, no legislation explicitly allows the right of access to medical records for Malaysian patients. The closest legislation that approximates this right is the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) 2010 but this only governs the manner and right of access to the data user and data subject thereby advocating data protection in general terms, which raises the question of whether the term ‘data’ applies to medical records. Even then, it is restricted to the private healthcare sector which forms only a small part of the Malaysian healthcare ecosystem. Despite guidelines from the Malaysian Medical Council stating that patients have the right to access their medical information, this analysis reveals several contradictions and contravening government regulations that suggest otherwise. Patients thus have no authority to access medical records as this authority belongs to doctors and hospital providers. As it stands, patient access to medical records can be granted only through a court order.
The objective of this thesis is to determine whether Malaysia should widen patient access to medical records and how this could be achieved. It examines three important aspects of widening patient access: the legal impediments to patient access and the current legislative and regulatory landscape in Malaysia; the ethical principles involved in widening patient access under which the doctor-patient relationship operates; and the changes needed to support access and how this would affect the doctor-patient relationship. It then develops a practical and coherent framework and recommendations based on legal and ethical perspectives to support the goal to improve patient access to their medical records. In doing so, the effect of the regulatory space on patient access to these records is also touched upon as it is an integral part if any changes are to happen.
The thesis concludes by detailing a set of legal and ethical recommendations for Malaysian authorities which may help improve the current legal position in recognising patients’ rights to access their medical records. In doing so the recommendations are used to underpin a reform strategy aimed to shift the current paradigm of values and beliefs and make it a norm, initially by legislation but later by behavioural changes brought by the legislation
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
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