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“It’s NOT a toy”: Falls, body and personal control in the everyday life of older adults living with an emergency call in own residence
No full textThis article focuses on the meaning of falls in the everyday life of older adults living with an emergency call in own residence. The emergency call is a communication technol- ogy integrated into the Danish eldercare prac- tice as a response to the high risk of falling among older adults. Current research in falls and fall prevention is predominantly based in biomedical and physiological understandings of the body focusing on health risks and pre- ventive strategies. This article is working with a dialectical understanding of the aging body including bodily rhythms in time and space. The theoretical and methodological framework of the article is critical psychological practice research combined with critical STS and criti- cal gerontology. Empirically, the article draws on semi-structured interviews on a backdrop of extensive participant observation in multiple practices of eldercare. The analysis is based on the perspective of older adults on the emer- gency call. The article shows how technology- mediated eldercare matters to how older adults understand themselves and their possibilities for action. A key point is that conducting ev- eryday life as an older adult with an emergen- cy call implies involvement in negotiations on when, how, and for what to use the emergency call. The article discusses how experiences, un- derstandings, risk of falling, and emergency calls are mediated through the organization and practices of caring for older adults in the con- text of the welfare state. The participation and negotiation of older adults in these practices is relationally anchored. The article shows how dominant understandings of fall hazards, and the aging body downplays the mental, discur- sive, and normative dimensions of the meaning of falls in older adults’ everyday life. These understandings have a norm-setting signifi- cance for the older adult and potentially installs uncertainties and limits opportunities in their daily struggles for personal control.Denne artikel fokuserer på fald i egen bolig som fremtrædende problematik i ældre menneskers daglige liv med nødkald. Nødkald er en kommunikationsteknologi, som inddrages i ældreplejens omsorgsarbejde som modsvar på faldproblematikken. Artiklen vil vise, at denne form for teknologimedieret ældreomsorg får betydning for, hvordan de ældre forstår sig selv og deres handlemuligheder. En central pointe er i den sammenhæng, at livet som ældre med nødkald implicerer involveringer i ældreple- jens nødkaldspraksis, samt, i forhandlingerne om hvordan nødkaldet bør tolkes og bruges i praksis. Eksisterende forskning om ældre mennesker og fald domineres af tilgange, baseret på den biomedicinske og fysiologisk funderede kropsforståelse med analyser, der påpeger risici og bagvedliggende faktorer ifm. fald. Denne artikel baserer sig på et subjektivt perspektive- ret blik på faldproblematikken koblet sammen med en dialektisk kropsforståelse. Med dette afsæt stiller artiklen sig kritisk overfor den di- kotomiske kropforståelse, der skelner skarpt mellem biologi og psyke. Artiklens teoretiske rammesætning udgøres af kritisk psykologisk praksisforskning, med anknytninger til kritisk STS og kritisk gerontologi. Dertil tilføjes et rytmeanalytisk perspektiv sammenvævet med den dialektiske forståelse af den aldrende krop. Med dette afsæt diskuterer artiklen hvordan erfaringer, forståelser og organiseringer omkring den aldrende krop, fald, nødkald og velfærd- statsligt formidlet ældreomsorg får samvirkende betydning for ældre menneskers rådighed – forstået som deltagelsespotentialitet forhandlet i et relationelt forankret rum. Empirisk baserer artiklen sig på deltagerobservationer og interview gennemført i forbindelse med mit arbejde på en ph.d.-afhandling omhandlende ældre menneskers daglige liv med kommunalt visiteret nødkald. Artiklen vil vise, hvordan forståelserne omkring fald og aldrende krop er forankret i en fysiologisk/medicinsk forståelsesramme, der nedtoner den psykiske, diskursive og normative dimension ved faldet og dets betydning i ældrelivet. Artiklen vil også vise, at kroppen kan opleves som både med- og modspiller i ældre menneskers daglige liv og i deres brug af deres nødkald. Endeligt vil artiklen give blik for potentielle utilsigtede konsekvenser der kan følge med inddragelsen af nødkald i ældreplejen, når forståelser omkring den aldrende krop og faldproblematikken får normsættende betydning for praksis. Alt imens, det som udgangspunkt anerkendes, at nødkaldet kan øge ældre menneskers oplevelse af tryghed, samt tilføre dem udvidede muligheder for at handle på faldproblematikken, så vil artiklen lægge op til en diskussion af, hvordan et liv som ældre med nødkald også kan installere usikkerheder og oplevelser af indskrænkede handlemuligheder i den daglige kamp for rådighed
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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