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Body image, self-esteem, eating and feeding behaviours in Israeli and UK women: a two year cross-cultural comparison.
Get PDFPregnancy is a time women are advised to maintain a healthy lifestyle and support the healthy development of their fetus. Research indicates that pregnancy weight gain is positively associated with BMI prior to pregnancy resulting with heavier women being advised to gain as minimum weight as possible. Women tend to accept the changes within their body and associate it with the development of their future baby. Having given birth the excessive weight gain can no longer be attributed to the development of their fetus and for most women this is a time of dissatisfaction with body and active dieting behaviours. Whiles during pregnancy negative eating behaviours affects solely the future mothers, postpartum eating behaviours are associated with feeding behaviours and negative mealtime interactions. In support, the literature suggests that mothers who restrain their own eating are likely to restrain their babies eating as well.
The studies set out in this thesis explored feelings and eating behaviours in Israeli and UK mothers from pregnancy until two years following birth and its impact on infants eating traits. The research used quantitative, qualitative and observational methods. Findings from this thesis indicate that eating behaviours remained stable during pregnancy and the postpartum with higher levels of dissatisfaction with body following pregnancy. Maternal eating behaviours and well-being were found to be associated with babies eating traits. To conclude, as eating behaviours are shaped in early life future research should identify those mothers who are at risk for unhealthy eating behaviours and provide them with sufficient support allowing a healthy development for themselves and their new-born
Therapists' experiences of working with the intergenerational impact of troubles-related trauma
Get PDFThe social impact of intergenerational trauma within Northern Ireland, particularly regarding the period known as The Troubles, is an area of significant importance to this day. This paper describes a study that aimed to understand the impact of The Troubles through a multi-generational lens and explore the experiences of practitioners, who deliver therapy for intergenerational trauma in Northern Ireland. Five psychotherapists working in Northern Irish conflict-related trauma services were interviewed individually and within a focus group regarding their therapeutic practice and how they facilitate healing in a part of the United Kingdom with significant social and cultural divisions. Grounded theory methods were used to code and analyse therapists' experiences. Findings highlighted the difficulties therapists face in delivering therapies for intergenerational trauma in locations where conflict is still present and ongoing. Participants discussed the impact of cultural differences within the therapeutic relationship. The findings further indicate that counselling and cultural cohesion have significant positive influences on healing from traumas connected to historic and societal oppression
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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