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Video: Sinhala Nationalism, Tamil Nationalism And Military Triumphalism – Interview With Nirmala Rajasingam (Newsclickin)
No full textNirmala Rajasingam, founder of the Sri Lanka Democracy Forum and who is based in the United Kingdom speaks to Newsclick about the challenges faced by the civil society and democracy activists in Sri Lanka. Nirmala the sister of the late Rajini Thiranagama who co-authored ‘Broken Palmyrah’ and who was murdered in cold blood by the LTTE for exposing the fraud behind a misguided Theleepan’s famous Nallur fast, has given a balanced interview about the current situation in the island. Her analysis..
"Communally motivated attacks on Hill country Tamils in Ratnapuri district" by Nirmala Rajasingam
No full textWe would like to thank warmly Nirmala Rajasingam for providing us a summary in english of the news report given below by the BBC Tamil Oosai. Communally motivated attacks on Hill country Tamils in Ratnapuri district: - source namathu malaiyaham In recent days communally inspired attacks have been perpetrated on the dwellings of workers living on Alupola estate, in the Wewalwatte police division of Ratnapuri district in the hill country. The most recent attack took place yesterday,in the earl..
Attitude towards patient undergraduate medical students in the University of Malaya / Jeevitha Rajasingam
No full textIn the last two decades, patient safety awareness has become one of the emerging themes. To prevent from doing harm to patients, safe medical practices should be implemented and followed strictly. Therefore, a basic understanding of human factor principles need to be instilled into all health care workers. Medical universities play a vital role in fostering patient safety attitudes of their students towards the importance of patient safety during their practise. However, the medical curricula still face challenges regarding the correct timing and appropriate methods of instruction in their understanding of their principles. Experiments have shown that patient safety classes in health care facilities are being developed, incorporated, and tested. In this study, the attitude towards patient safety among medical students in University of Malaya was studied. The end results of this study would help medical schools in introducing patient safety components to their curriculum.
This study was performed among undergraduate medical students in the University of Malaya. Attitudes toward Patient Safety Questionnaire III (APSQ-III) - a 30- items, 5-point Likert scale questionnaire, was used as the study instrument. Year 1 to Year 5 medical students were approached via an online questionnaire using Google form and administered to their email addresses.
It resulted in a positive attitude culture towards patient safety among the undergraduate medical students. By measurements, the attitude towards implementing team functioning was scored the highest (mean=4.37) and the male medical students had better attitude towards Error Reporting (mean=3.66) compared to the females. For Working hours, the scores (mean=4.03) among the Year 1 medical students was the lowest compared to all the other years.
Students had positive views of patient safety importance, some still felt that patient safety must be highlighted further in the medical curriculum. The World Health
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Organisation (WHO) has since established the Patient Safety Curriculum Guide to support health care organizations who incorporate values of patient protection by concentrating on operating a safety culture for all health care professionals and undergraduate medical students in an integrated manner. Hence more studies are needed to be focused in curriculum to enhance the attitude of students towards patient safety
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
No full text“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
No full textWe 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
The leaky pipeline of hearing care: primary to secondary care evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)
No full textObjective: The proportions of older adults’ transitions through acknowledging their hearing loss to getting access to treatment are unknown. This was examined using data from a nationally representative cohort in England. Design: Patient and healthcare factors associated with referrals were examined cross-sectionally, through primary to secondary care. Non-report predictors identified using multiple logistic regression models. Study sample: 8529 adults with hearing data in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing Wave 7. Results: Nearly 40% of those with acknowledged hearing loss did not tell a doctor or nurse (n = 857/2249). Women (OR 2.68, 95% CI 2.14–2.98), retirees (OR 1.30, 95% CI 1.17–1.44), those with foreign education (OR 2.74, 95% CI 2.47–3.04), lower education (OR 2.86, 95% CI 2.58–3.18), smokers (OR 4.39, 95% CI 3.95–4.87), and heavy drinkers (OR 1.67, 95% CI 1.58–1.85) were more likely to not report hearing loss. Of those who acknowledged and reported hearing difficulties, willingness to try hearing aid(s) was high (78.9%). Conclusions: Unacknowledged, or acknowledged but not reported hearing loss by individuals, and non-referrals by primary healthcare professionals, are barriers to accessing hearing healthcare. Future research should report hearing aid use as the proportion of individuals who acknowledge their hearing loss, to avoid an overestimation of the non-use of hearing aids within study samples
sj-pdf-1-imr-10.1177_03000605211058366 - Supplemental material for Antimicrobial prescribing and outcomes of community-acquired pneumonia in Australian hospitalized patients: a cross-sectional study
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-imr-10.1177_03000605211058366 for Antimicrobial prescribing and outcomes of community-acquired pneumonia in Australian hospitalized patients: a cross-sectional study by Lawless Robert, Vickers Mark, Alawami Moayed, Appasamy Nivashen, Rajasingam Vinod, Paviour Sophie, El Washahy Mohamed and Chew Rusheng in Journal of International Medical Research</p
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
Topography of lesions on the anterior eye surface
No full textThe Eye Surface Profiler (ESP) is a new clinical instrument that measures the anterior eye corneoscleral topography.\ud
ESP used to map the topography of localized lesions on the anterior eye surface, past the limbus
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