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Dignity at End of Life for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Plus Population
No full textLeadership and Learning in Organizations capstone projectThis study partnered with Capital Caring Health (CCH), the largest non-profit advanced illness care provider in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia area. CCH has provided hospice care, palliative care, and counseling to nearly 200,000 patients and their families throughout its history. It aspires to lead in providing advanced illness care of the highest quality to its lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer plus (LGBTQ+) patients and their loved ones. While there has been some progress made in the medical system when providing care for this population, there is still much work to be done, and a paradigm shift is needed to change the way that LGBTQ+ people are cared for at their end of life (Acquaviva, 2017). This study uses an adapted conceptual framework that combined Bernstein and Salipante (2023)’s Framework for Inclusive Practices with an Inclusive Excellence framework and organizational behavior model (Williams et al., 2005). The adapted framework highlights how an organization can set up conditions to be inclusive and diverse, but first it must understand its own inclusive practices and how those practices impact interactions within and among the organization. Ultimately, this will uncover the impact of the lived experiences of the organization’s staff and the communities it serves. This study’s aim was twofold: to understand CCH’s current practices that demonstrate LGBTQ+ inclusivity and determine what additional actions CCH can take to demonstrate its commitment to supporting the LGBTQ+ population at their end of life. It is a mixed-methods study, utilizing an online survey to volunteers, semi-structured interviews to volunteers and staff, and organizational document analysis. Through two findings and four recommendations, this study assists CCH in better understanding what LGBTQ+-inclusive practices exist and what additional practices are needed as it aspires to be the leading hospice organization supporting the LGBTQ+ population and their loved ones at the end of life
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
Freedom of movement of refugees: those forced to move find themselves without their human right to move
Get PDFFor several decades, thousands of refugees have been fleeing into Kenya, and now Kenya is host to the world\u27s largest refugee settlement. The mass influx of refugees and their protracted situation in Kenya gives evidence that there is a crisis within international refugee law. Refugees are a group of people that have been given a distinct rights regime, and their right to freedom of movement has been inhibited due to state practices. This is proof that the international refugee protection regime is at risk of breaking down. It is creating an environment in which states are resorting to harmful policies of containment and restrictions on movement. This is leading to the development of warehousing refugees which is considered a possible new solution to protracted refugee situations. This policy of containment is not a solution to the refugee â problem,â and the reality that it is considered a fourth solution among the three durable solutions raises concern. Warehousing is a consequence of the shortcomings of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and subsequent 1967 Protocol which were not designed to respond to current protracted refugee situations. Regardless of the legality of warehousing under the refugee rights regime, it is a violation of the human right to freedom of movement. The lack of application of human rights law to refugees symbolizes the harmful gap that exists between these two international law regimes
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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