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A framework to improve climate-resilient health among Indigenous communities
No full textClimate change has severely impacted Indigenous communities' health. Many global strategies aimed at addressing climate-related health risks assume all populations face the same challenges and can adapt equally, overlooking the specific needs of groups such as Indigenous communities. Adopting generalized global approaches can unintentionally harm Indigenous communities and worsen their climate health risks. In this context, my study explores how the World Health Organization's climate-resilience health systems approach can be tailored for Indigenous communities. Two objectives guide the study: i) to develop a conceptual framework to improve climate resilience health among Indigenous communities, ii) to identify the capacities of Indigenous communities that can serve as transformative pathways in safely adopting global climate-resilient health approaches. To achieve these objectives, I followed a two-step methodology. First, I conducted a systematic literature review encompassing 137 peer-reviewed articles from Web of Science, PubMed, and Medline by ProQuest databases. Second, I collaborated with the Indigenous Peoples' Observatory Network and conducted 17 key informant interviews. In the first objective, I identified fifteen Indigenous health drivers, categorized into risk, protective, and overlapping categories. I developed a conceptual framework based on identified health drivers. The conceptual framework comprises two components: i) a place-based feedback loop and ii) the shaping of health drivers. The feedback loop comprises five elements: i) place, ii) causations, iii) infirmities, iv) interventions, and v) sustaining. The shaping of health drivers is designed as a collaborative process involving governance-level officers and Indigenous communities. Applying the framework to case studies confirmed its adaptability across various locations. In the second objective, I identified five transformative pathways: i) government community interactions, ii) traditional medicine and spiritual beliefs, iii) experience-based practices, iv) community-based collective actions, and v) community-based policies. I developed evidence-based narratives to explain how transformative pathways support resilience consideration of the World Health Organization's climate-resilient health systems. Based on insights from key informants, I proposed three recommendations to strengthen transformative pathways: i) Indigenous mentorship in knowledge, health education, and research, ii) identifying opportunities to develop Indigenous inclusive health workforce, and iii) enhancing indigeneity in health policies. This study provides valuable insights to researchers, policymakers, and health professionals on enhancing Indigenous communities' resilience to climate-linked health risks by developing a conceptual framework and identifying transformative pathways.Master of ScienceClimate change is causing severe health problems to Indigenous communities. Many global strategies for building climate-related health risks assume that everyone experiences climate impacts the same way, which ignores the specific needs of groups like Indigenous communities. Such approaches can make things worse for Indigenous communities. My study looks at how to adjust the World Health Organization's climate-resilient health systems approach to be more suitable for Indigenous communities. The study has two objectives: i) to develop a framework to improve health resilience among Indigenous communities and ii) to find ways to inform health professionals on how global strategies for climate health resilience can be adopted within Indigenous communities. I used a two-step approach in conducting this study. First, I reviewed 137 articles from scientific databases such as Web of Science, PubMed, and Medline by ProQuest. Second, I conducted 17 interviews with key informants from the Indigenous Peoples Observatory Network. Based on the systematic literature review, I identified fifteen drivers affecting Indigenous health grouped into risk, protective, and overlapping categories. I used these drivers to build a framework with two sections: i) a place-focused feedback loop and ii) a process for shaping health drivers. Testing the conceptual framework with case studies showed that the conceptual framework is applicable in various locations. Based on key informant interviews, I identified five transformative pathways: i) government-community interactions, ii) traditional medicine and spiritual beliefs, iii) experience-based practices, iv) community-based collective actions, and v) community-based policies. I developed evidence-based narratives to show how these transformative pathways contribute to key resilience strategies outlined by the World Health Organization. Based on key informants ' expertise, I made three recommendations to strengthen transformative pathways: i) support Indigenous mentorship in health education and research, ii) create opportunities for an inclusive health workforce, and iii) improve health policies to reflect Indigenous perspectives better. This study shows researchers, policymakers, and health professionals how to improve Indigenous communities' capacities to face climate-induced health risks by creating a conceptual framework and identifying transformative pathways
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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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