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Scott Duncan, John Quaid & James Parker
No full textFreshman Scott Duncan, John Quaid & James Parker were among the students honored last week at the National Merit & Trustee Scholars Recognition Dinner
Letter from H. Scott Duncan to Hayao (Sam) Chuman
No full textA letter from H. Scott Duncan Associate Executive Secretary for Finance for the American Friends Service Committee, to Hayao (Sam) Chuman. The letter thanks Hayao for his donation.The Chuman (Hayao "Sam" and Toshiko) Papers documents the World War II experiences of Hayao "Sam" and Toshiko Chuman, who were Kibei Nisei born in the United States but grew up and completed school in Japan, and then returned to the U.S. prior to the war. It chronicles the Chuman's incarceration from the Santa Anita Assembly Center, through Jerome, Rohwer, Tule Lake camps, and the Santa Fe and Crystal City internment camps as well as their struggle for restoring their U.S. citizenships in the 1960s. The digital collection consists of mostly textual material, including correspondence, affidavits, incarceration camp records, lease agreements, financial documents, receipts, pamphlets, and booklets
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
Paving the way : the second generation of e-patients, their experiences, actions and driving forces
No full textBackground: E-patients are described as patients and informal caregivers who are empowered, equipped, enabled and engaged, and use digital solutions for their self-care and in healthcare contexts. Self-care can be understood as health related activities and behaviors regarding life styles and environmental aspects. The self-determination theory can be used to understand aspects of motivation and to provide an understanding for the basic psychological needs of persons, and how their autonomy, competence and relatedness are supported. Understanding e-patients also includes understanding their use of different consumer health informatics applications. These are digital solutions where patients and informal caregivers as citizens are the end-users. In the beginning of this century, e-patients were described as persons using the Internet to find information about their condition or to prepare for clinical encounters, as well as engaging in online communities. They were called the first generation of e-patients. Today there is a broader use of and an increased access to better digital solutions. Therefore, the first generation of e-patients has evolved largely in tandem with the evolving environment. The overall aim for this thesis is to examine the experiences, actions and driving forces of the second generation of e-patients, and their applicability to a broader group of patients with chronic conditions and their informal caregivers.Methods: Three studies were performed. Study I consisted of a qualitative approach conducting semi-structured interviews with 15 e-patients. Deductive framework analysis was used, with the self-determination theory as an initial framework. Study II was a mixed method study with seven semi-structured interviews and a survey with 180 included respondents having Parkinson disease and self-tracking experience. Inductive conventional content analysis was applied for the interviews and statistical analysis for the survey. In study III the 15 semi-structured interviews from study 1 were analyzed using inductive thematic analysis resulting in 12 key concepts. These concepts were tested in six focus groups with 33 patients with chronic conditions and their informal caregivers. An abductive direct content analysis was used for the focus groups.Results: The second generation of e-patients generate their own data, are early adopters or innovators of new solutions for themselves as well as for other peers. They are characterize by relatedness towards others, autonomy concerning themselves, as well as increased competence. Learning aspects seem to generate from self-generated data, and self-tracking provides persons with Parkinson’s disease with tools to improve their decision making as well as more active communication with healthcare professionals. To track one’s health and medication can be time consuming, and it is consider important to find the right balance between tracking efforts and expected outcomes. When comparing activities and behaviors of e-patients to other active patients and informal caregivers, some variations seem to exist between the two groups. Therefore two different frameworks regarding role specific competencies emerged.Conclusion: This thesis shows different levels of being an e-patient. The e-patient movement is thriving towards generating own data, being early adopters of new solutions, and evolves as innovators, as in contrast to other active patients and informal caregivers. In tandem with the progressing digital environment the second generation of e-patients has the possibility to influence the future of participatory design within healthcare contexts as well as consumer health informatics applications. It is therefore important to follow and understand this development.List of scientific papersI. Scott Duncan T, Riggare S, Koch S, Sharp L, Hägglund M. From Information Seekers to Innovators: Qualitative Analysis Describing Experiences of the Second Generation of E-Patients. J Med Internet Res. 2019; 21(8):1. https://doi.org/10.2196/13022 II. Riggare S, Scott Duncan T, Hvitfeldt H, Hägglund M. “You have to know why you’re doing this”: a mixed methods study of the benefits and burdens of self-tracking in Parkinson’s disease. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 2019;19(175). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-019-0896-7 III. Scott Duncan T, Engström J, Riggare S, Koch S. Towards a framework for patients’ and informal caregivers’ behaviors and activities: a qualitative study with e-patients as outset. [Manuscript]</p
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