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Forced Migration - environmental and socioeconomic dimensions
Full text linkIn 2009, five German higher education institutions – Technical University Braunschweig, University of Hohenheim, University of Kassel, Cologne University of Applied Sciences and Ludwig-Maximilians-University München – were selected to be part of the Excellence for Development Cooperation (Exceed) Program by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). Since then, these centers together with their 37 partners in developing countries, have been establishing think tanks to contribute to the post-2015 development agenda. These five Exceed Centers combined forces to take a closer look at the environmental and socioeconomic dimensions of forced migration together with scientists, politicians and the public from around the world by participating in the first Exceed Conference in Berlin. This up-to-date topic was chosen to strengthen the connection between local research on conflicts and their consequences in today's world and global action towards the mitigation of these consequences. During the course of the conference, current research results were presented, challenges were discussed and new strategies to prevent forced migration were identified by using an interactive conference set-u
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
Distress in local and rural-urban migrant workers employed at a beverage factory
Full text linkIntroducción: Los migrantes rural-urbano en áreas metropolitanas están
expuestos a un alto riesgo de condiciones precarias de vida y empleo,
estas pueden desencadenar distrés mental.
Métodos: El estudio de corte transversal incluyó 199 trabajadores. Se
aplicaron encuestas utilizando cuestionarios validados incluyendo
preguntas sociodemográficas, características de empleo, condiciones
de trabajo, y distrés mental (GHQ-12). Los trabajadores, migrantes
(n=115) y no migrantes (n=84), fueron comparados utilizando el test
Chi2 seguido de análisis de regresiones logísticas.
Resultados: Los migrantes presentan un nivel de educación más bajo
que los no migrantes (46% vs. 75%; p=0,001) y de trabajar en estiba y
paletizado manual (39% vs. 20%; p=0,02). La prevalencia de distrés
mental es casi significativamente mayor dentro del grupo de los
migrantes que en los no migrantes (57% vs. 44%; p=0,06).
Encontramos la misma asociación después de ajustar para un nivel
educativo no superior y trabajo con mayor demanda física (OR 1,66,
95% Cl 0,88-3,16).
Conclusión: El resultado sugiere un mayor riesgo de desarrollar distrés
mental en trabajadores migrantes, pero no es estadísticamente
significativo. Entre los trabajadores con menor educación, se presentó
mayor distres entre las personas mayores, mientras que, entre los de
mayor educación, la tendencia se presentó entre los más jóvenes.Tesi
Effort-reward imbalance, overcommitment and hypertension: a cross-sectional study among Peruvian labor inspectors
Full text linkEl objetivo fue investigar la asociación entre el desequilibrio esfuerzo-recompensa (DER), el sobre compromiso (SC) y la hipertensión en los inspectores de trabajo peruanos. El diseño fue transversal y se investigaron 171 inspectores. El alto riesgo de estrés relacionado con el trabajo y el alto SC fueron definidos utilizando el tercil superior de la escala de DER y SC respectivamente. La presión arterial se midió una vez de acuerdo con las recomendaciones de la Asociación Americana del Corazón. Los factores sociodemográficos y de comportamiento se recogieron mediante cuestionarios anónimos autoadministrados. Se tomaron medidas antropométricas utilizando dispositivos validados. Se analizó la asociación potencial entre DER, SC e hipertensión mediante regresión logística. El DER se asoció con la edad. El 78 % de los participantes reportaron estrés laboral. La prevalencia de hipertensión fue del 27 %. Después de ajustar los factores potenciales de confusión, ni DER, ni SC se asociaron con hipertensión. Género y edad fueron predictores significativos de la hipertensión. Las condiciones psicosociales de trabajo evaluadas en los inspectores de trabajo peruanos con el cuestionario de DER no estaban relacionadas con la hipertensión.Tesi
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
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