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A Paripaadal Perspective on the Unique Identification of Pandiya Nadu Poets
Full text linkParipadal is one of the texts of Sangam literature. Among the 13 poets who sang paripadal, the people of Pandiya Nadu have been singled out in this article. Everyone knows that Paripaadal is a Pandiya Nadu. In addition to Madurai, Vaiyai, Tiruparangunram, and Azagarkoil are found as hymns in this book. Its songs are sung on the topics of Vaiyai, Sevvel, and Thirumal. It is not possible to conclude that all the poets who sang were poets of Pandiya Nadu, as the scene of the song was in the Pandiya Nadu areas around Madurai. Some of the poets have sung the praises of the Pandiya region or the Pandiya king in allegorical and laudatory terms in the context of praising the Pandiya region or the Pandiya king in their songs. However, this structure is not found in the songs of some poets. They sing only what they have come to sing. In the songs sung by poets, knowingly or unknowingly, they write about their land, country, and king in a state of admiration and through metaphors. On the basis of this, it is possible to identify the teachers Nallanthuvanar, Ilamperuvazhuthiyar, Karumpillaipoothanar, Keeranthaiyar, Kundramboothanar, Nappannar, Nalvazhuthiyar, Nallazhisiyar, and Mayodakovanar as Pandiya Nadu poets. However, this is not the case in the verses of some of the poets, and the four poets, Kaduvan Ilaveinanar, Kesavanar, Nallasthanar, and Nallazhuniyar could not be distinguished as Pandiya folk
Quality of independent review board/ethics committee oversight in clinical trials in India
No full textReadability and comprehensibility of informed consent forms for clinical trials
No full textThe signed informed consent form provides documentary evidence that the patient has given informed consent to participate in a clinical trial and that the patient has been given the requisite information. However, this document must not only provide the necessary information, it must also be provided in a way that can be understood by the patient. Non conclusive information suggests that research participants frequently may not understand the information presented during the informed consent procedure. Comprehension requires that the patient be able to understand the information presented and have the time and opportunity to read, evaluate and consider the information presented.
A shortened Informed Consent Form, with information that a reasonable person would want to understand along with specific information that the person wants in particular would be a good option to improve understanding or comprehensibility. Additional informational meetings with a qualified person like a counselor could help in comprehension. Questionnaires designed to test comprehension of patient, peer review, patient writing the salient features could help evaluate the comprehensibility of the Informed Consent Form
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
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