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Complicated grief after violent death: Identification and intervention
No full textIn periods of peace especially, violent deaths account for only a small percentage of total deaths, with, for example, 7% of annual deaths in the United States falling within the category of murder, suicide, and accidents (National Centers for Disease Control, 2009). However, there is considerable clinical evidence to support the premise that violent dying has specific and enduring effects on bereavement and grief (Rando, 1993; Rynearson, 2001). The violent death of a loved one is a traumatizing experience. In research on family members of murder victims, researchers have drawn attention to the likelihood of strongly intrusive and avoidant thoughts combined with hyperarousal, suggesting the presence of posttraumatic stress reactions (Parkes, 1993; Rynearson, 1994). Because of the often unexpected suddenness of violent death, combined with violation, and often intentionality or culpability associated with the death, those attached to the victim are not only vulnerable to levels of distress that are characteristic of reactions to non-violent deaths, but particularly prone to thoughts of remorse, retaliation, and fears of recurrence related to the act of violent dying. Furthermore, following the work of Janoff-Bulman, it has become widely accepted that fundamental assumptions people hold about themselves, the world, and the relation between these two may be shattered following traumatic loss (Janoff-Bulman, 1992; Matthews & Marwit, 2003), although recent evidence suggests that these effects may not be as strong as has been claimed (Mancini, Prati, & Bonanno, 2011)
Complicated grief: Assessment of scientific knowledge and implications for research and practice
No full textOur objective in compiling this edited volume has been to provide an up-to-date, state-of-the-art account of scientific research on complicated grief (CG), one that is hoped to be useful for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers alike. We have included diverse contributions, representing contemporary research and thinking from a variety of disciplines and perspectives. Scientific and societal issues have been addressed throughout, and it will have become evident that our authors have at times come to different conclusions on fundamental issues. In this concluding chapter, we reflect on the research presented in this volume, to summarize developments, highlight implications, and indicate current understanding – as well as gaps in our knowledge – regarding CG. We try to draw together the different lines of argument, so that readers can form their own conclusions about scientific knowledge on CG and associated implications for research, practice, and policy
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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