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Evaluating an interactive university curriculum delivered during Russia's invasion of Ukraine
No full textThe purpose of this article is the evaluation of earlier work by Sikra (2022), which supplied preliminary data about the author's rationale for designing and delivering online university education. The current evaluation was achieved by collecting psychology students' views via different sources with the use of trivial questions that corresponded to the Six core values (Sikra, 2022). In total, 22 students' responses were evaluated (17 females, 5 males, Mean Age 20.09). These responses were thematically analysed to support the author's evaluation of the interactive curriculum after its completion. The results of the thematic analysis evidence that the author delivered the online education in accordance with the Six core values. A short discussion of the findings' implications in connection to previous research is supplied. The conclusion brings the material to a finish and contextualises this approach within the global crises of COVID-19 and the War in Ukraine
Improving cybercrime reporting in Scotland : the victims' perspective
No full textPeople victimised by cybercrime can feel excluded within their communities due to shame, which results in underreporting cybercrime. This research builds on earlier work by Sikra, Renaud and Thomas (2023), which used a systematic literature review to establish a theoretical foundation for improving economic cybercrime reporting in Scotland. Using the paradigms from the latter, this research focuses on three types of Scottish victims of cybercrime (SVC): Individuals, Private institutions and Public institutions. It analyses their reporting experiences via the taxonomy of Human-to-human (H2H), Human-to-machine (H2M) and Machine-to-machine (M2M). Importantly, it adds value to the research subject by using victims’ own views on what is required to improve cybercrime reporting in Scotland. In doing so, it is addressing a research gap whereby there is currently no research with victims on how to improve cybercrime reporting in Scotland. This study used a qualitative semi-structured interview design to collect information from SVC about their background, the cybercrime they had to endure as well as their experiences of reporting and suggestions for improvement. Participants were recruited using several methods. Firstly, in cases of Private and Public institutions, news coverage was followed-up for news of prominent cybercrimes based on which potential interview candidates were contacted. Secondly, all researchers’ private connections were explored. Thirdly, snowballing participants was used. Fourthly, recruitment was done via social media. There was a total of 10 SVC (9 males, 1 female): 3 Individual SVC who incurred cybercrime harm of £1000, £5240, and £20. 2 Private institution SVC who incurred cybercrime harm of over £20,000 and non-monetary harm. 5 Public institutions, represented by various functions, which suffered technological and psychological harms. All the cybercrimes were from the years: 2012 (1), 2015 (2), 2017 (1), 2020 (1), 2021 (3) and 2022 (2), where the number of interviewees is in brackets. Approval for the study was granted by the CIS Departmental ethics committee 7 times from 22 April 2022 – 09 January 2023. Most of these were extensions to the original application due to substantial problems with participant recruitment. The analysis was carried out with ‘NVivo 1.3 Release software’ in three stages which were: Stage 1: Initial coding, Stage 2: Focused coding, Stage 3: Thematic coding. Individual SVC were attacked via an E-Bay Scam, HMRC Scam and Credit card details theft. Individual SVC link improved reporting to aftercare and returned finances. Individual SVC link impeded reporting to anxiety and frustration with the Police. All individual SVC reported via H2H approaches. Private institution SVC were attacked via .ru ransomware. Private institution SVC link improved reporting to having a unified phone number, awareness raising and a possibility to report online. Private institutions SVC link impeded reporting to unpreparedness of the local Police as well as not knowing who to report to. Private institution SVC reported via H2H approaches, but only one reported to the Police. The other reported to their IT company. Public institution SVC were attacked via fraudulent invoices, ransomware, and a vendetta-motivated cybercrime. Public institution SVC link improved reporting to following procedures and taking a multistakeholder approach among others. Public institution SVC link impeded reporting to Police being unhelpful and terminological confusion. All Public institutions SVC reported via H2H approaches both to the Police and multiple other interested agencies in most cases. Since all SVC reported via H2H approaches this suggests that it is the dominant mode of reporting currently utilised in Scotland implying a proclivity towards a socially inclusive preference, which suggests that the way to improve cybercrime reporting should be social rather than purely technical. References: Sikra, J., Renaud, K. V. and Thomas, D. R. (2023) ‘UK Cybercrime, Victims and Reporting.’ The Commonwealth Cybercrime Journal, 1(1), pp. 28-59
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
No full text“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
No full textWe 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
No full textWe 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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