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Nepal (2006): Market Research Omnibus Survey: Clients of Known High Risk Meeting Places in Nepal Round One
No full textThe purpose of the MROS: Clients Round One was to answer the question: Among the population visiting the known high risk meeting places in Nepal, what are the determinants of consistent condom use in terms of opportunity, ability and motivation? Specifically, the research objectives were to identify and describe one or more target markets of clients of known high risk meeting places in terms of: Risk; Behavior (consistent condom use during paid sex); Behavioral determinants (opportunity, ability and motivational characteristics); Population characteristics; Exposure (to behavior change interventions); Monitor behavior indicators and change in the behavioral determinant scores; Analyze audience'a willingness to pay for the product of interest; To provide follow-up information against which levels and trends of behavioral indicators relating to opportunity, ability, motivation and exposure to social marketing activities may be assessed over time; To ultimately be able to examine the extent to which behavioral trends are the result of PSI/Nepal's efforts (by linking different levels of exposure and the behavior change determinants). The MROS: Clients Round One was conducted in September-October 2005 amongst 950 respondents in known high risk meeting places via a structured questionnaire interview process. The sample was a subset of the MROS: FSWs Round Two sample in known high risk meeting places in Nepal, and the information was collected through a multi-stage cluster process. An MROS: Clients Round One pilot was undertaken in Lalitpur district (area not sampled for main round survey) prior to the main study, with findings being used to conduct reliability analysis and to refine the measur
ement tool for the full study. The study is based on the assumption that geographically, high risk meeting places constitute the priority areas for HIV/AIDS social marketing interventions in Nepal
Nepal (2006): Market Research Omnibus Survey: Clients of Known High Risk Meeting Places in Nepal Round One
No full textThe purpose of the MROS: Clients Round One was to answer the question: Among the population visiting the known high risk meeting places in Nepal, what are the determinants of consistent condom use in terms of opportunity, ability and motivation? Specifically, the research objectives were to identify and describe one or more target markets of clients of known high risk meeting places in terms of: Risk; Behavior (consistent condom use during paid sex); Behavioral determinants (opportunity, ability and motivational characteristics); Population characteristics; Exposure (to behavior change interventions); Monitor behavior indicators and change in the behavioral determinant scores; Analyze audience'a willingness to pay for the product of interest; To provide follow-up information against which levels and trends of behavioral indicators relating to opportunity, ability, motivation and exposure to social marketing activities may be assessed over time; To ultimately be able to examine the extent to which behavioral trends are the result of PSI/Nepal's efforts (by linking different levels of exposure and the behavior change determinants). The MROS: Clients Round One was conducted in September-October 2005 amongst 950 respondents in known high risk meeting places via a structured questionnaire interview process. The sample was a subset of the MROS: FSWs Round Two sample in known high risk meeting places in Nepal, and the information was collected through a multi-stage cluster process. An MROS: Clients Round One pilot was undertaken in Lalitpur district (area not sampled for main round survey) prior to the main study, with findings being used to conduct reliability analysis and to refine the measur
ement tool for the full study. The study is based on the assumption that geographically, high risk meeting places constitute the priority areas for HIV/AIDS social marketing interventions in Nepal
Replication data for: Nepal (2005): Market Research Omnibus Survey: Female Sex Workers in Known High Risk Meeting Places in Nepal Round Two
No full textThe purpose of the MROS: FSWs Round Two was to answer the question:Among the identified population of female sex workers in known high risk meeting places in Nepal, what determines consistent condom use in terms of opportunity, ability and motivation? The study conducted in September-October 2005 amongst 1,110 female sex workers, via a structured questionnaire interview process. The sample was representative of FSWs in known high risk meeting places in Nepal, and the information was collected through a multi-stage cluster process. An MROS: FSWs Round Two pilot was undertaken prior to the main study, with findings used to conduct reliability analysis and to refine the measurement tool for the full study. The study is based on the assumption that geographically, high risk meeting places constitute the priority areas for the HIV/AIDS social marketing intervention in Nepal
Replication data for: Nepal (2006): Market Research Omnibus Survey - Family Planning Round One
No full textThe purpose of the MROS: FP Round One was to answer the question: Among currently married women of reproductive age (CMWRA) in Nepal, what determines the use of a family planning method in terms of opportunity, ability and motivation? The MROS: FP Round One was conducted in December 2005-January 2006 amongst 3,930 respondents via a structured questionnaire interview process. A multi-stage cluster sampling approach was used to draw a representative sample of currently married women, 15 to 49 years of age living in urban and rural areas of Nepal
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
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