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Mindfulness therapy as a means to improve sexual satisfaction in couples with neuromuscular disabilities
No full textResearch regarding sexuality after neuromuscular disabilities has focused on either men or women separately, without considering the couple and how acquiring a disability may influence relationships.
The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of an 8-week modified mindfulness intervention on sexual satisfaction in couples where one or both partners are living with neuromuscular disability.
One couple (male age 42, female age 44) with the female living with neuromuscular disability (relapsing remitting MS, 11 years since diagnosis) participated in the study.
The mindfulness intervention was administered to participants via a booklet and the exercises were explained verbally after the baseline interview. The booklet contained a total of eight mindfulness-based exercises for each week of the intervention. The exercises were explained in a step-by-step manner in the booklet. The booklet also included reflection questions at the end of each exercise in order to prompt the couple to journal about their experiences and record how much time they dedicated to that exercise per week. The exercises were carried out at home.
The intervention also included a psycho-education session that was offered at week five of the intervention. The psycho-education session aimed to challenge thought patterns and negative beliefs about sex and physical abilities. It also involved a discussion about body-image as it relates to mindfulness.
Testing involved a sexual satisfaction questionnaire that was completed by each member of the couple individually at baseline and at the end of the 8-week intervention.
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Also, an in-depth semi-structured phenomenological interview of the couple together was conducted at baseline and at the end of the 8-week intervention.
The results of this study showed that sexual satisfaction and sexual-self view have improved for the couple as a result of participating in the 8-week mindfulness intervention. In addition, the couple reported an improvement in communication, understanding, and awareness. Sensate focus exercises enhanced intimacy between the couple. Themes such as acceptance and feeling present in the moment were discerned from phenomenological analysis.
These findings show promise for mindfulness-based therapies to enhance sexual satisfaction and relationship satisfaction in couples living with neuromuscular disabilities
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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