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Reaching the 85%: how the UK publishing industry can change to make its print titles more accessible to adults with dyslexia
No full textDyslexia is estimated to affect ten per cent of the UK population, but there is widespread lack of awareness of the condition by society, which is reflected in the publishing industry through the absence of targeted activity for this readership. The overall aim of this research was to discover how the UK publishing industry can adapt to make its print titles more accessible to adults with dyslexia. The dissertation achieved this aim through an extensive study of relevant literature and the collection and analysis of empirical data. The primary research is comprised of three case studies, and surveys with two target samples. The former involved single interviews with Mairi Kidd, former Managing Director of Barrington Stoke; Susie Dunlop, Publishing Director at Allison & Busby and David Shelley, CEO of Hachette UK. The surveys were conducted by a written questionnaire with UK publishing professionals and a telephone questionnaire with adult dyslexics. This research produced key findings including: confirming the lack of understanding of dyslexia among those working in the UK publishing industry, identifying that adult dyslexics prefer to read in print, and consensus among the latter sample about the importance of text size and spacing as an aid to comprehension. The main conclusions drawn from this research are that publishers bear the responsibility for a cycle of reading deficiency that passes familiarly from dyslexic adults to their children, if left unsupported. It is not enough to be increasing accessibility in digital formats when the readership, as evidenced in this study, favour printed material and, although more costly to modify the existing production workflow to increase spacing and text size, ultimately these changes present a global opportunity for UK publishers to widen readership and thereby increase sales. This research suggests that publishers should collaborate with specialist organisations, such as the British Dyslexia Association, to better understand the needs of the target market, recommends that existing production workflows be modified to be more inclusive, and argues that UK publishers should lead the way by making accessibility part of international conversations with publishers overseas in order to encourage worldwide change
Replication Data for: Divergent Electoral Policies: Why Some States Increase Ballot Access
No full textWhy have some states adopted policies expanding ballot access while others have restricted access to the ballot? Since the 1990s, some states have been adopting policies restricting access to the ballot such as requiring identification. At the same time, states have been adopting a variety of registration reforms that lower the barriers to registration and voting. Using an original, forty-five-state dataset, we examine state innovation within the policy domain of electoral reforms in U.S. states. We find reforms have an independent and, sometimes, negative effect on the innovation of states in electoral reforms. Next, we use dyad analysis to examine the spread of a single policy: automatic voter registration. We find that the propensity to innovate both within and across a state makes the spread of automatic voter registration more likely. Our paper contributes to the broader understanding of why states adopt electoral reforms
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
The Impact of Immigration Laws on U.S. Divorce Rates: Evidence from Section 245(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act
No full textChanges in immigration laws that provide an opportunity for undocumented immigrants to become legal immigrants have been shown to substantially impact U.S. marriage rates (Smith Kelly, 2010; Dalmia & Smith Kelly, forthcoming). Given this fact the big question is, are these marriages of convenience or not? In an attempt to answer the question, this study will examine the divorce propensity of residents in different sizes of immigrant-population counties before and after the immigration law change in 1994. If the spike in the marriage rates was a result of marriages of convenience, then we expect the immigration law change to also influence the U.S. divorce rates after undocumented immigrants have obtained their legal residence status (green card). In other words, undocumented immigrants who entered marriages of convenience would have the incentive to leave such arrangements after they have obtained their legal residence status. If the marriages that occurred during the immigration law change window were not marriages of convenience then the divorce rates should be unaffected. Undocumented and documented immigrants are spreading over more regions; however, the principal states where they reside are California, Texas, New York, Florida, New Jersey and Illinois (Passel et al., 2004). These states are the immigrant receiving states that will be examined. They were chosen for their large immigration population and availability of the required data
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
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