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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
Quality of Life of Patients with Multiple Sclerosis
No full textRoztroušená skleróza je autoimunitní onemocnění s chronickým průběhem postihující především dospělé v produktivním věku, v některých literaturách až třikrát častěji ženy než muže. Choroba ovlivňuje nejen délku života pacienta, ale i jeho kvalitu. Diplomová práce na téma: ,,Kvalita života pacienta s roztroušenou sklerózou je rozdělena na část teoretickou a praktickou. V teoretické části se zabývá definicí, historií, rizikovými faktory, patogenezí, typy průběhů, diagnostikou, léčbou, prognózou, režimovými opatřeními, těhotenstvím a specifickou ošetřovatelskou péčí. V praktické části jsou zpracovány výsledky rozhovorů, které probíhaly od prosince 2014 do března 2015 na Neurologické klinice FN Plzeň.ObhájenoMultiple sclerosis is an autoimmune disease with a chronic course, affecting mainly adults in productive age, some literature states that to three times more often women than men. The disease affects not only the length of life of the patient, but also its quality. Thesis on the topic: Quality of life of the multiple sclerosis" is divided into, two main parts, theoretical and practical. The theoretical part deals with the definition, history, risk factors, pathogenesis, types of disease course, diagnosis, treatment, prognosis, lifestyle changes, pregnancy and nursing care specifics. The practical part presents the results of interviews. Interviews were conducted since December 2014 to March 2015 at The Neurological Clinic FN Pilsen
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
Monitoring of the patient with suspected sleep disordered breathing in the home
No full textDiplomová práce je zaměřena na tématiku poruchy dýchání ve spánku a jejich monitoraci.
Část teoretická byla zaměřena na základní pojmy spojené s medicínským oborem spánkové medicíny. Cíleně bylo zaměřeno na spánkovou apnoi, její diagnostiku, monitoraci a léčbu.
Praktickou část tvoří analýza dat kvantitativně kvalitativního výzkumu.
Jsou zde zpracovány údaje o počtu pacientů s poruchami dýchání ve spánku z období roku 2014 a 2015.
Cílem práce je definování pacientů se spánkovou apnoí, analyzovat dotazníkové šetření a odpovědět na stanovené hypotézy. Zároveň analyzovat kvalitu života dotázaných pacientů ambulance pro poruchy dýchání ve spánku.
Tato diplomová práce poukazuje na důležitost spánkové medicíny, jako oboru prolínajícího celé spektrum lékařské i ošetřovatelské péče. Vyzdvihuje důležitost diagnostiky, léčby a nových možností pro pacienty se spánkovou apnoí. Obsahuje informace, které by měly pomoci rozšířit znalosti v problematice v oboru spánkové medicíny a vyzdvihnout dovednosti sester v ambulancích pro poruchy dýchání ve spánku a spánkových laboratořích.ObhájenoThe topics of this diploma thesis were breathing disorders during sleep and their monitoring.
The theoretical part was focused on the basic terms connected with the medical branch of sleep medicine. It was concentrated on the sleep apnoea, its diagnostics, monitoring and treatment.The practical part consists of the analysis of quantitatively qualitative research data. The data about the number of patients with breathing disorders during sleep from the years 2014 and 2015 are processed here.
The aim of the thesis is to define the patients with sleep apnoea, analyse the questionnaire survey and answer the hypotheses stated and, at the same time, to analyse the quality of life of the respondents among the patients of the outpatients' department for breathing disorders during sleep.
This diploma thesis stresses the importance of the sleep medicine as a branch involved in the whole spectrum of the medical and nursing care. It highlights the importance of the diagnostics, treatment and new possibilities for patients with sleep apnoea. It contains information which should help to extend the knowledge in the field of the sleep medicine branch and to highlight the skills of the nurses in the outpatients' department for the breathing disorders during sleep and the sleep laboratories
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