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The Relationship between Socio-Demographic Characteristics, Safety Awareness, and Safety Behaviors among Workers in E-Waste Recycling Shops in Thailand
Get PDFIntroduction: Safety behavior is an approach to workplace safety that focuses on workers’ behavior as the cause of most work-related injuries and illnesses. Some of the effects of e-waste recycling on health may occur.
Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted between January and July 2021 with e-waste workers living in Southern Thailand. The questionnaire was divided into 3 parts: 1) socio-demographic characteristics for 14 items; 2) safety awareness for 20 items; and 3) safety behaviors for 20 items, collected data from e-waste workers. Interpreting The average score value was interpreted using the interpretive criteria divided into three levels. Descriptive and multilinear regression analyses were conducted. P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.
Results: The results of this study found that the majority of e-waste workers were male (96.30%). E-waste workers who smoked cigarettes, drank alcohol, worked ≥ 8 hours per day, ≥6 days/week, and had worked for >13 years had significantly lower safety behavior practice levels compared to e-waste workers who did not smoke cigarettes, did have drank alcohol, worked < 8 hours per day, < 6 days/week, and ≤13 years. Health effects on e-waste workers in e-waste recycling shops were significantly associated with hours worked per day, days worked per week and the use of masks and gloves. In addition, significant relationships were found between safety behaviors and safety awareness (F: 597.457; P < .001).
Conclusion: Safety behavior is very important. Meanwhile, raising awareness with safety factors in mind is important because it makes safety behaviors sustainable
Government Support and Local Residents’ Behavior in E-waste Management: Evidence from Thailand
No full textElectronic waste (e-waste) management is a critical global pollution concern. This study investigates government support; local residents' perceptions, knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors related to e-waste management; and collaborative governance in southern Thailand. Employing both quantitative and qualitative methods, this research involves expert government officers who are well versed in e-waste management and local residents. The study utilized in-depth interviews, questionnaires, and workshops. The results revealed that the government is responsible for four e-waste management approaches, encompassing various e-waste collection, transportation, and disposal methods. Local residents exhibited low perceptions of e-waste news but possessed substantial knowledge and positive attitudes toward e-waste management. Surprisingly, general characteristics do not significantly influence e-waste management behavior. A statistically significant connection was found between perceptions (B = 0.065, t = 6.657, p value = 0.000) and attitudes (B = 0.079, t = 4.350, p value = 0.000) toward e-waste management, which had a positive relationship with e-waste management behavior in southern Thailand (p value < 0.01). Repairing appliances is the most common action taken (44.5%). Despite longer lifespans for electronic appliances than they did a decade ago, revisions to the draft waste electrical and electronic equipment Act are underway, aiming to incorporate stakeholder involvement and the extended producer responsibility principle. This study provides valuable insights into government and local community concerns regarding e-waste management and evaluates the efficacy of recent management procedures. These findings can inform the development of action plans that consider crucial aspects of e-waste management
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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