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A study of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Children in relation to their cognitive and affective variables
Get PDFThis present study aimed to identify the ADHD children and examine
their relationship with cognitive and affective variables. This study was
conducted on a sample of N=80 children comprising of 40 ADHD and 40
Non-ADHD children. Their age ranged from 12 to 14 years. ADHD
children were identified with [Vanderbilt diagnostic rating scale (VDRS,
1998) teacher version (VDTRS) & parent version (VDPRS)] based on
DSM-IV criteria. To study the cognitive and affective variables of ADHD
and non-ADHD children following instruments were used. (i) Gardner
multiple intelligence tests (1983) was used to study the multiple
intelligences. (ii) Academic achievement was obtained from the school
records of children. (iii) Behavior checklist list of (Achenbach &
Rescorla, 1991) was used to assess behavioral problems and (iv)
Emotional characteristics were assessed by test developed (Gupta &
Singh, 1985). The results revealed that inattention type was
predominant in girls whereas in boys hyperactive and combined types
were found more. Results also revealed that significant differences
were found in both cognitive and affective variables in comparison to
controls. It was found that ADHD children have lower intelligences in
these areas i.e Naturalistic, Musial, spatial-visual, logical-mathematical,
interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligences than linguistic and bodilykinesthetic.
Behavior showed more internalizing & externalizing
problem, social problem, thought problem, total problem and rulebreaking
behavior than aggression, withdrawal, somatic complaint and
depression. Whereas low emotional control and lower level of
academic achievement was seen in ADHD children
Emotional Intelligence And Personality Traits As Predictors Of Life Satisfaction: A Study Of Adolescents, Adults And Aged Persons
Get PDFThe present study examined the extent to which Emotional Intelligence and Personality traits predict Life Satisfaction. Secondly, the study investigated the association between i) Emotional Intelligence & Life Satisfaction ii) Personality traits & Life Satisfaction among three different populations -Adolescents (100), Adults (102) and Aged (100). The mean age of the adolescent, adult and aged participant group was 17.28, 28 and 61.45 respectively. All the three participant groups were chosen from different areas of district, Srinagar by using purposive sampling method. Emotional Intelligence and Personality traits were the predictor variables while Life Satisfaction was the criterion variable in the present study. Instruments used were SWLS (Diener et al, 1985), NEO-FFI-3 (Costa & McCrae, 1992) and MEII (Mangal & Mangal, 2004). Descriptive statistics and multiple regression analysis revealed that various factors of emotional intelligence were positively correlated with life satisfaction whereas most of the personality traits showed significant (both positive and negative) correlations with life satisfaction in all the three participant groups. The present study indicated that some of the Emotional Intelligence (EI) factors emerged as the significant predictors of life satisfaction whereas among the personality traits Conscientiousness (C) and Neuroticism (N) emerged as the significant predictors of life satisfaction in the adolescent and aged participant groups respectively
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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