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Social resource patterns and health outcomes among Canadian LGBTQ2+ adults: A latent class analysis
No full textBackground: Decades of research have shown a strong association between wellbeing, health, and social resources. LGBTQ2+ communities are among those who historically have been excluded from accessing quality social resources. However, little is known about how access to different types of resources influences mental health and wellbeing. Method: Data were drawn from an online sample of 3890 LGBTQ2+ people aged 18 years and older in Quebec, Canada. We identified key social resource patterns (from family of origin, friends, partner, neighbourhood, and LGBTQ2+ community) and investigated differences in socio-demographic and health outcomes across classes. Results: A five-class solution best fitted the data, highlighting distinctive patterns in access to five key social resources: moderate friend support access (42.14%), overall high support access (23.51%), high friend support access (18.06%), only close ties support access (10.90%) and overall low support access (5.39%). Marginalized groups (trans and non-binary people, racialized or disabled people, immigrants) were less likely to access diverse, high-quality social resources. Accessing diverse social resources, particularly close ties (e.g., family of origin), was associated with better health outcomes. In the absence of close ties, having at least one other social resource was associated with better health outcomes compared to having limited access to all resources. Conclusions: We found a major imbalance in social resource access among LGBTQ2+ people. Creating safe spaces for LGBTQ2+ people and ensuring access to high-quality social resources is important in sustaining their health and wellbeing
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
Inégalités sociales et services de proximité au Québec - Développement d’un système d’évaluation issu d’une collaboration entre chercheurs et intervenants
No full textBeyond the abundance of statistics illustrating social inequalities in health, there is a need to link them up to health and social intervention and, more particularly, to local communitybased services which public policies currently call upon to help reduce these inequalities. However, this endeavour gives rise to methodological and practical issues. How can social inequalities in the use of local community-based services be assessed at the local level? And, how can this assessment be used to examine practices regarding disadvantaged people? This article suggests an answer to these two questions but more particularly to the second question, implying the sharing of knowledge between researchers and health workers. Highlighting the close collaboration between the researchers and health workers in seven local community service centres (CLSCs) from different communities, this article describes the development of a system to assess social inequalities in the use of local communitybased services provided by the CLSCs which, every year in Québec, deal with approximately one out of four Quebecers. It shows the principal elements of this system: 1-a map of the population’s local profile of material and social deprivation, 2-a summary table of inequalities in the use of services according to deprivation, and 3-a framework for interpreting these inequalities. Finally, it shows how these elements have been adapted to meet the requirements of a local analysis of the use of services as well as a report intelligible to the health workers and useful for the examination of practices regarding deprived groups.Au-delà de la profusion de statistiques illustrant les inégalités sociales de santé, il y a la nécessité de relier celles-ci à l’intervention sanitaire et sociale et, plus particulièrement, aux services de proximité qui sont actuellement interpellés par les politiques publiques afin de contribuer à la réduction de ces inégalités. Pour y parvenir, cependant, des enjeux d’ordre méthodologique et d’ordre pratique se posent. Comment mesurer à l’échelle locale les inégalités sociales dans le recours aux services de proximité? Et comment passer de cette mesure à une réflexion sur la pratique à l’égard des personnes défavorisées? Le présent texte propose une réponse à ces deux questions mais plus particulièrement à la seconde, impliquant le partage de connaissances entre chercheurs et intervenants. En mettant l’emphase sur l’étroite collaboration entre chercheurs et intervenants de sept centres locaux de services communautaires (CLSC) issus de milieux variés, il relate le développement d’un système d’évaluation des inégalités sociales dans le recours aux services de proximité offerts par les CLSC qui rejoignent annuellement environ un Québécois sur quatre. Il présente les principaux éléments de ce système: 1-une carte du profil local de défavorisation matérielle et sociale de la population, 2-un tableau synthèse des inégalités dans le recours aux services selon la défavorisation, et 3-une grille d’interprétation de ces inégalités. Finalement, il démontre comment ces éléments ont été adaptés afin de répondre aux exigences d’une analyse locale du recours aux services ainsi que d’une production qui soit intelligible par les intervenants et utile à la réflexion sur la pratique à l’égard des groupes défavorisés.Pampalon Robert, Hamel Denis, Philibert Mathieu. Inégalités sociales et services de proximité au Québec - Développement d’un système d’évaluation issu d’une collaboration entre chercheurs et intervenants. In: Santé, Société et Solidarité, n°2, 2004. Inégalités sociales de santé. pp. 73-88
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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