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Harm from others’ drinking:Analysis of the Australian National Drug Strategy Household Survey
No full textBackground Previous research indicates that those who have experienced alcohol-related harm from others are more likely to support stricter alcohol control policies. This study investigates the association between types of harm experienced because of others’ drinking and support for stricter alcohol control policies. Methods Data from 20,570 Australians aged 18 and over who completed the 2013 National Drug Strategy Household Survey was used. Questions about experience of alcohol-related harm from others – being put in fear and abuse (verbal or physical) – were asked. Support for stricter alcohol control policies was quantified by a mean policy support score across 18 alcohol policy questions. Results Twenty seven percent of respondents reported harm from someone's drinking. Respondents who were put in fear had a higher level of support for stricter alcohol control policies than respondents who were not harmed (p < 0.001), regardless of whether they were abused or not. Conversely, respondents who experienced abuse but were not put in fear did not significantly differ in their support for stricter policies from those who experienced no harm. Conclusion It is the apprehension of harm (i.e. having been put in fear), and not the experience of harm itself (i.e. abuse), which is related to people's support for stricter alcohol policies. These findings suggest that perceiving others’ intoxication as dangerous to oneself may motivate support for stricter alcohol policies.</p
Harm from others’ drinking:Analysis of the Australian National Drug Strategy Household Survey
No full textBackground Previous research indicates that those who have experienced alcohol-related harm from others are more likely to support stricter alcohol control policies. This study investigates the association between types of harm experienced because of others’ drinking and support for stricter alcohol control policies. Methods Data from 20,570 Australians aged 18 and over who completed the 2013 National Drug Strategy Household Survey was used. Questions about experience of alcohol-related harm from others – being put in fear and abuse (verbal or physical) – were asked. Support for stricter alcohol control policies was quantified by a mean policy support score across 18 alcohol policy questions. Results Twenty seven percent of respondents reported harm from someone's drinking. Respondents who were put in fear had a higher level of support for stricter alcohol control policies than respondents who were not harmed (p < 0.001), regardless of whether they were abused or not. Conversely, respondents who experienced abuse but were not put in fear did not significantly differ in their support for stricter policies from those who experienced no harm. Conclusion It is the apprehension of harm (i.e. having been put in fear), and not the experience of harm itself (i.e. abuse), which is related to people's support for stricter alcohol policies. These findings suggest that perceiving others’ intoxication as dangerous to oneself may motivate support for stricter alcohol policies.</p
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
“Hard-to-define abstract concepts”: Addiction terminology and the social handling of problematic substance use in Nordic societies
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