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Tesla: Interpreting an Invisible Landscape
No full textPurpose of the Study: The intent of this thesis is to demonstrate that industrial landscapes and other ???invisible,??? or historically undervalued, landscapes have interpretive potential. The overall goals in this study are to contribute to the academic literature of industrial landscapes, to provide methods by which these landscapes can be interpreted to the public, and to aid California State Parks in meeting their management goals for interpretation. This thesis will be provided to California State Parks to be utilized prior to their implementation of an interpretive program at the Tesla addition to Carnegie State Vehicular Recreation Area, a California State Park.\ud
Methods: A literature review of interpretation methods and cultural landscape studies was conducted to identify how other similar landscapes are assessed and interpreted to the public. In addition, historical research was done on the town of Tesla and the coal mines that were situated in the area, as well as on coal mining in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, company towns, and labor relations.\ud
Findings: While there is ample information on industrial landscapes, there are far fewer examples on how these landscapes can be practically interpreted. This thesis identifies three potential ???invisible landscapes??? that can interpreted for the public by California State Parks and provides means by which these invisible landscapes may be made ???visible??? to the visiting public. As a site of working class history, Tesla may be distinctly valuable as a tool for Parks to reach out to communities typically underserved by Parks in California. The interpretation of Tesla???s landscapes will meet Parks management goals for protecting the resources, protecting and inspiring the visitor, and promoting the agency.\ud
Conclusions: The cultural landscape of Tesla is complex and its history may not be readily apparent on the physical landscape. However, its complicated history provides ample opportunities for Parks to reach out to a variety of constituencies, including those typically underserved by the park system. Through this collaboration, Parks will be able to meet its management goals for interpretation, while presenting a diverse history that may appeal to a variety of users
Telemedicine
No full textThe impact of the type of care on outcomes was reviewed for patients seen in rural, critical access hospitals. The purpose of this study was to compare telemedicine with traditional emergency medical care delivery. A randomized retrospective chart review was conducted to identify if patient outcomes improve with use of telemedicine in the emergency department. Four-hundred charts for admission diagnoses of pneumonia, sepsis, myocardial infarction, and stroke were reviewed. Outcomes compared were: time until provider interaction with patient, time until diagnostic implementation, time until treatment, time until transfer, length of hospitalization, and incidence of mortality. The central finding concluded that telemedicine, used in critical access emergency departments, demonstrated a statistically significant difference when compared to traditional emergency medical care delivery for decreasing care times, length of hospitalization, and mortality for all diagnoses. In contrast however, for the diagnosis of pneumonia the results show time until transport was shorter with traditional emergency medical care delivery. The main benefits of this study were that telemedicine, when utilized in critical access emergency departments, can improve patient’s time until care implementation and decrease their risk of mortality with the diagnoses of pneumonia, sepsis, myocardial infarction, and stroke.Manuscript14 page
Sexual Politics in Modern Ireland
No full textThis innovative and compelling collection tells the powerful story of gender history in Ireland and how the State treated its citizens on the basis on gender. It includes insightful questions that challenge the concept of masculinity, femininity and ‘otherness’ within Irish society, and a fascinating study of activists from various campaigns that surround the progression of Pro-Choice and Pro-Life since 1983
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
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