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The Application of the Home Falls and Accidents Screening Tool (HOME FAST) in Malaysia to Address Falls Risk among Older Malaysians
No full textThe older population in Malaysia is rapidly increasing. A lack of healthcare professionals in Malaysia has limited the service efficacy for falls prevention and intervention–especially in relation to home hazards assessment and management. This responsibility should be shared by community members to accelerate the uptake of falls prevention. However, research on this topic is negligible in Malaysia or Southeast Asia. Moreover, factors associated with home hazards have been inadequately studied even at an international level. Several studies were conducted in this thesis. A systematic review found the HOME FAST can potentially be applied in Malaysia compared to other instruments. The use of the HOME FAST with lay individuals was found to be feasible; there is potential for it to be adopted by Malaysian occupational therapists. This was confirmed with good inter-rater and test-retest reliability using a group of lay individuals. With this evidence, the HOME FAST was used in a population study called the Malaysian Elders Longitudinal Research. Older people with a lower education level, Chinese ethnicity, having more people living in the same house, poor financial status, living in traditional house, poor vision and younger age were associated with high home hazards; other potential factors were culture, higher degree of fear of falling, poor perception of own health status and memory, and not owning the home. Factors associated with low home hazards were living in an apartment; other potential protective factors were better independence in activities of daily living, better instrumental daily living functions and having a maid. Older people at high risk of having home hazards should be targeted by healthcare professionals and community members through home assessment, using the HOME FAST to identify the hazards available
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
Association between physical activity and quality of working life among nurses in private hospitals
Get PDFIntroduction: Nursing is a physically demanding profession; they must be in good physical condition to do the physical tasks such as lifting or positioning the patient. Studies on nurses were mostly carried out in public sectors in Malaysia and investigation among nurses in private sector is limited. Even though there are investigations on physical activity level with quality of life, however, the quality of life explored were general. Therefore, the study aims to determine the association between physical activity (PA) and quality of working life (QoWL) among nurses working in private hospitals. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study. The nurses were recruited by using the snowball sampling method during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study involved 64 nurses (61 female and three male) in private hospitals. Using Google Form, sociodemographic data, physical activity (PA), and quality of the working life (QoWL) were gathered online and analysed using SPSS version 22. PA was evaluated using the Global Physical Activity Questionnaire (GPAQ), whereas QoWL was measured for the Work-Related Quality of Life Scale (WRQoL). Spearman Correlation, the Mann-Whitney Test, and the Kruskal-Wallis Test were applied to determine PA and QoWL. Results: According to the findings, the WRQoL score and age had a significant correlation (p<0.05). The PA was also shown to have a significant on two of the six elements of the WRQoL scale, which represent the control at work and stress at work. The association between physical activity and general well-being also was found significant (p<0.05). Conclusion: This study identified private nurses in Malaysia were physically active and having relatively good quality of working life. The factors such as increase of age among nurses contributes to lower quality of work life
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