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Effects of Covid-19 on families with children under five in Nottingham. Report prepared for Small Steps, Big Changes
Full text linkThis report is of a study of the experiences of families with children under five in Nottingham during the first Covid-19 lockdown.
Our study:
29 interviews with parents from 27 families: 27 women and 2 men, living in Nottingham – all but two in Nottingham city.
All families had at least one child under five.
Priority given to interviewing people in four SSBC wards.
Questions about how lockdown was for them and how they coped, and hopes for the future.
Also asked parents how they thought their child felt about lockdown.
Good experiences:
More time together and bonding as a family – especially important for fathers.
Benefits for child’s routine due to being at home during lockdown.
Benefits for younger children spending time with older siblings.
Some health professionals went out of their way to help families.
Move to telephone GP appointments often made attendance easier.
Some people got to know neighbours better.
Problems experienced:
Worry about themselves or their families catching Covid-19
Worry about finances.
Difficulties obtaining baby milk or nappies due to panic buying.
Lack of access to health care staff.
Lack of access to disability assessment, support, physiotherapy.
Isolation for both parents and children when groups cancelled.
Parents had no time to themselves.
Parents and children missed contact with extended family - this also meant some children lost access to heritage languages.
Working parents found it difficult to work from home and care for their children; some employers unsympathetic.
Children lost confidence with adults outside immediate family.
Children missed outside play and access to parks and play areas
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Girl skateboarders: active girlhood, alternative sports and urban space
No full textThis dataset comprises anonymised data from a study of girl and young woman skateboarders. Data were collected between June 2021 and December 2022 at three skateparks in and around two cities, plus associated skate spaces. These have been de-identified, but the characteristics are as follows: 'Flyovers' is a partially indoor, managed skatepark in Bedrock in North-west England; 'High Hill Park' is a public outdoor skatepark near the centre of Hillwood, in the English Midlands, and 'Parish' is a public outdoor skatepark in a nearby village.
There are the following subsets of data: 1. Open and structured observations of skateparks and other skate spaces. Open observations are deposited as field notes (83 in total). Structured observations are deposited as sets of maps (18 sets with varying numbers of maps in each file) in a specially designed mapping system. 2. Transcripts (41 in total). These consist of: a) 39 interviews (with young woman skaters, skate coaches, male skaters using the same spaces, and others involved in skateboarding in these locations); b) the transcript of a meeting between 9 young women set up, by a managed skatepark not part of our main study, to discuss their experiences; c) the transcript of a discussion meeting following participant data collection/analysis as part of an exchange visit involving seven young woman skateboarders from a managed skatepark not part of the main study and the study skatepark in Bedrock. 3. Media descriptions of 5 shared photographs and 2 shared videos from the participant data collection on the exchange visit. 4. Transcript of WhatsApp conversation as part of the participant data collection/analysis related to the exchange visit.
Also archived are examples of 1. Consent forms (3 versions); 2. Information booklets (7 versions); interview schedules (4 versions); map templates with maps removed for ethical reasons (2); data documentation including the NVivo codebook
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
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