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Relationship of socio-demographic characteristics, nutritional status, and red meat intake to blood cholesterol level among staff in Universiti Sains Malaysia
No full textThe main objective of the study was to determine the factors associated with blood cholesterol level among staff in Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). The study was a cross-sectional. One-hundred staff between 23 and 59 years of age were recruited in this study using convenient sampling at USM Health Campus. A questionnaire which includes sociodemographic characteristics, medical history, and red meat intake was used in the study. Anthropometric and biochemical assessment were measured. Blood cholesterol level was divided into two categories which were known as healthy range (<5.2mmol/L) and slight risk/high risk range (?5.2mmol/L). The gender distribution of respondents for this study comprised of 40 male and 60 female. The age group (18 to 39) years and (40 to 59) years had a total of 40.3% and 63.2% of slightly risk or high risk blood cholesterol respectivel
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
Challenges and Opportunities of Public Health Nutrition in Achieving Sustainable Development Goals
No full textIn 2015, the world agreed a new set of global goals to eradicate extreme poverty
and achieve sustainable development. Building on the Millennium Development
Goals MDGs), they are known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). SDGs
includes social, economic and environmental dimensions. The MDGs focused heavily
on important social development issues, such as poverty, health and education, to
the exclusion of economic and environmental aspects. The SDGs attempt to
balance the three dimensions and they are the first attempt that has been made to
integrate this approach across such a broad range of issues at the United Nation
(UN). The effort to move beyond single issues is not perfect and there are
contradictions between some of the goals and targets. The SDGs will influence
government planning and donor priorities over the coming decades. Many
governments are creating national sustainable development plans that integrate
action on the goals. National governments will be responsible for implementation
of the global goals from 2015 through to 2030, with support from the international
community. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), aimed at realising
balanced growth across the globe by 2030. This presentation focuses on the Goal 2:
End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and Goal 3: Ensure
healthy lives and promote well‐being for all at all ages. However, this Goal 2 is too
broad in scope, aims to cover too many topics and therefore faces too many tradeoffs. Recent studies have found that the challenge of malnutrition is broader than
the issue of hunger or undernourishment. Low quality and low diversity of food are
other major sources of malnutrition. Individuals may have an intake of enough
calories for daily subsistence, and still suffer from “hidden hunger”, with low levels
of micronutrients due to low diversification of diets. This is a problem in both
developing and developed countries, affecting 30 per cent of the world’s
population. The excess intake of calories is another major global public-health
concern, as overweight and obesity cause more than 2.8 million deaths per year
among adults. Though, the Goal 3 is about ensuring healthy lives and promoting
well-being for all at all ages. The goal’s focus on ensuring healthy lives rather than
preventing diseases or infirmity is highly welcome, yet the level of ambition is
likely unrealistic, given the current operationalisation of the goal. Therefore,
health systems need to be strengthened to respond more effectively and equitably
to the healthcare needs of people throughout the life course and prevent negative
health consequences. In addition, different countries have different priorities, and
they are likely to put different emphasis on the various goals and targets depending
on their national circumstances
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
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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