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Mixed-method feasibility study of a positive psychology intervention for post-COVID-19 patients
No full textThis study was a mixed-methods feasibility trial for a supportive well-being intervention (i.e. positive psychology intervention) for patients with post-COVID-19 syndrome (a.k.a. long COVID). The quantitative parts (datasets and SPSS syntax/R codes) of this study were anonymised and made publicly available. The qualitative parts are not publicly archived due to ethical and privacy concerns. However, the codebook with illustrative quotations of the qualitative data is shared here
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
Improving the quality of life in post-COVID-19-patients:A mixed-methods investigation toward self-management support for post-COVID-19 syndrome
Full text linkSix years after the emergence of COVID-19, its impact persists, especially for patients with post-COVID-19 syndrome (commonly known as long COVID). Post-COVID-19 syndrome is a complex disease occurring in 1 in 8 individuals after SARS-CoV-2 infection, characterised by debilitating, persistent symptoms. This severely limits daily life, physically, mentally, and socially, reducing the health-related quality of life. Currently, no curative treatment exists and waiting lists for specialised healthcare are long, leaving patients to self-manage their illness. This thesis explored the impact of post-COVID-19 syndrome on daily life, aiming to 1) deepen understanding of the syndrome and 2) contribute to self-management support. The results reveal that patients who were hospitalised with COVID-19 may experience substantially impaired physical and mental quality of life, although recovery trajectories differ. This may be exacerbated by their negative illness beliefs: struggles with sense-making, uncertainty, limited illness and recovery control, and negative emotions. Furthermore, symptoms fluctuate throughout the day, influenced by daily activities and positive and negative affect. Positive affect seems to improve self-regulation and symptom severity, making it a suitable target mechanism for intervention. Finally, two self-management support options were investigated. A technological symptom-oriented intervention via just-in-time adaptive intervention was deemed (currently) infeasible due to the complexity of post-COVID-19 symptoms. However, a positive psychology intervention helped patients through personal strengths and positive emotions to self-regulate mental well-being and may alleviate symptom burden. Although not suitable for everyone, such psychosocial interventions offer potential for patients awaiting clinical treatment. This thesis underscores the importance of a biopsychosocial approach to better understand post-COVID-19 syndrome and self-regulation needs, and argues to support patients in sense-making and mental well-being
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
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