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Clinical data warehousing
No full textClinical Data Warehousing: A Business Analytic approach for managing health dat
Clinical data warehousing : a business analytics approach for managing health data
Full text linkHeterogeneous health data is a critical issue when managing health information for quality decision making processes. In this paper we examine the efficient aggregation of lifestyle information through a data warehousing architecture lens. We present a proof of concept for a clinical data warehouse architecture that enables evidence based decision making processes by integrating and organising disparate data silos in support of healthcare services improvement paradigms
Your Mind Power: Strategies for behaviour change
No full textYour Mind Power meets a growing need for practical behaviour change strategies – for students and clinicians alike. Packed with essential information, this one-stop authoritative reference text contains contributions from leading world researchers and integrates state-of-the-science theories and methods.With special features such as case examples and concrete techniques to apply immediately, this much needed, welcome resource offers flexible treatment approaches for real world therapeutic concerns. Change strategies involving the subconscious mind result in permanent and painless change and Your Mind Power offers a synthesis of perspectives to achieve this
Clinical Data Warehousing for Evidence Based Decision Making
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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
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
The future of psychology: Approaches to enhance therapeutic outcomes
Full text linkRecent years have seen a greater acceptance of mind–body approaches in the psychology field. Emerging research indicates that supplementing established and evidence-based psychological techniques (such as behavioral, exposure and cognitive processing) with physiological or digital/technological interventions — such as acupressure, diaphragmatic breathing, eye movements, and virtual reality - enhances therapeutic outcomes. Studies of therapies in the counselling space focused on the relationships between the mind, body, brain, and behavior are now being recognized as effective treatments by various official bodies, including the US Veterans Administration, the US National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices, and the World Health Organization.The goal of this Research Topic is to examine the evidence for the efficacy of interventions supplementing traditional approaches such as talk therapy. For example, by 2021 more than 400 papers had been published in peer-reviewed journals, including meta-analyses, randomized controlled trials, and other outcome studies demonstrating the efficacy of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing and Energy Psychology approaches with anxiety, depression, PTSD, and other conditions, often at an order of magnitude greater than conventional therapies. It has now also been 25 years since the first mental health applications of VR technology appeared, but digital interventions including applied games, may also hold a key to increasing access to, engagement with, and potentially the effectiveness of psychological treatments. If the future of psychology is to improve and even face a paradigm shift, in both cost effectiveness and with constraints such as online delivery, how can we think outside the box to deliver highly effective interventions
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
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