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The caring culture for older people in the 21 century
No full textA study of the culture and environment of caring among older people care providers including the policies and its interplay in the process of delivering care was conducted to develop an older people care culture theory. This study utilized focused ethnography which involves generating data by observing participants and the structure of an older people health facility in their natural setting. Administrative consent as well as individual participants\u27 informed consent was acquired prior to the start of the study. Participant observation, dialogue and interview were utilized by the researcher and the research participants. Data analysis was done using the observations and dialogues on the caring governance which were transcribed in the individual journals of the researchers using NVIVO 11. Four major themes were generated: nurturing environment, flourishing milieu, thriving abode and unifying care. The elderly caring structure focused on the growth and empowerment of the older persons despite their limitations. These processes are developed through a nurturing-flourishingthriving- unifying environment. An eclectic combination and complementary relationship between the physic-social-psychological-spiritual components of the care provider, venue of care and the one cared for provides a focus on the support for the caring culture of older people
Visual Biofeedback: Adjunct Mirror Intervention during Stage Two Labor among Primiparous Women
No full textBackground: Since time immemorial, difficulty in bringing forth another human being has been one of the greatest apprehensions women have to confront themselves with, as exemplified by cases of infant mortality and incidence of death among mothers due to giving birth in such an alarming rate. It can be noted that techniques to efficiently as sist the birthing process have become a prevalent trend. In connection with this, this study was conducted in the spirit of providing ample information on a unique feedback method which is deemed to have a high probability in the improvement of the assisted birthing process. This determined the effectiveness of visual biofeedback in hastening stage II of labour of primiparous women administered with adjunct interven tion. Specifically, this study answered the question: Is there a difference in the length of stage II of labour between the control and experimental groups? The method consisted of a on-equivalent post-test design with twenty primiparous women distributed to both control and study groups chosen through purposive sampling. A 3 x 2 foot mirror to provide vis ual biofeedback (treatment), a stopwatch to measure the length of time elapsed from full cervical dilatation and effacement to the delivery of the baby, and a tally sheet for recording data were used in data gather ing. Results: The findings showed that the control group (not subjected to mirror) obtained a mean of I 8.92 (SD=7.17) while the experimental group (subjected to mirror) obtained a mean of 6. 77 with a mean differ ence of 12.15 (SD=S.24). The computed t- test value was 4.37, which was greater than the table value of 2.23 tested at the 0.05 level of significance. The results showed a significant difference in the duration of the second stage of labor, thus, the use of a mirror as a feedback mecha nism during the second stage of labor reduces its duration
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
Predictors of Quality of Life of Institutionalized and Community-Dwelling Elderly
No full textThis study determined what cognitive (educational attainment and cognitive ability) and non-cognitive factors (marital status, basic and instrumental activities of daily living, spirituality and social support) predict quality of life of among the elderly admitted in elderly institutions and community-dwelling elderly. A total of 147 elderly responded to the invitation as respondents (46 institutionalized and 101 community-dwelling). The findings revealed that among community-dwelling elderly only social support (non-cognitive) significantly correlated (with r=0.26; p-value=0.00) with quality of life. Among the institutionalized elderly educational attainment and cognitive ability (cognitive factors) and social support (non-cognitive) are significantly related to quality of life. Moreover, when the elderly cognitive and non-cognitive profiles were correlated with QOL both educational attainment and cognitive ability significantly correlated and basic and instrumental ADL as well as social support. Regression analyses revealed the consistent role of social support as the most significant predictor of QOL. It is concluded that QOL cannot only be predicted through the cognitive characteristics of elderly but more on the non-cognitive factors
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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