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How does time perception predict academic procrastination among university students? An investigation in time production experiments with facial stimuli in Hong Kong
No full textAcademic procrastination (AP) refers to the unnecessary delay of an intended course of academic task despite expecting things to be worse off. According to the temporal motivational theory, AP is a motivational issue which is inversely associated with the task aversiveness and the time between the present moment and the task deadline, the author therefore wonders if one\u27s ability of time perception (i.e., accurate judgement of passage of time) will also be related to AP.
Methods: Participants were Hong Kong university students, who completed a questionnaire on AP, and subsequently participated in a time production experiment with both neutral and sad facial stimuli used as a measure of time perception accuracy. Results: For participants with poorer time perception performance (i.e., time over-production) with regards to both neutral and sad facial stimuli, they were more likely to report higher tendency of AP.
The present findings may imply that the tendency of time over-production implied the individuals’ tendency of feeling the time as lasting longer and progressing slower (i.e., time dilation), which predisposed them to be demotivated from accomplishing academic tasks as rapid as their counterparts did
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
Development of Chinese paper cutting as an expressive art intervention targeting psychological health of University students in Hong Kong: an intervention protocol
No full textMental health has become one of the noteworthy issues in the contemporary society, with particular attention paid to university students for their heightened prevalence rate of mental health problems. In Chinese society, individuals are reluctant to seek talk-based psychotherapeutic services because of the ramification of social stigmatisation (i.e., embodiment of one’s own failure) which impedes their direct verbal expression of their presenting issues. While multifarious dynamic, action-based therapeutic approaches can be found in Hong Kong, most of these modalities originate from Western cultures and rarely do they address the indigenous Chinese themes experienced by most local Chinese people exclusively. In view of the gap in the existing action-based therapeutic available in Hong Kong, the present protocol study explicates a novel therapeutic modality which integrates paper cutting, a Chinese traditional folk art, with art-based therapeutic techniques. Methods: university students aged between 18-25 are randomly assigned to either 2-week treatment group or waitlist group, respectively. In the treatment, subjects attend workshops on Chinese paper cutting plus daily take-home experiential exercises. All subjects complete the questionnaires measuring their self-esteem, self-compassion, mindfulness, symptoms of mental health and, quality of life at the baseline and 2-week after. Analysis: A multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) is conducted to examine if subjects in treatment group, compared with the counterparts, would significantly improve their self-esteem and mental health throughout this 2-week period. Implication: The present intervention protocol may serve as a prospective therapeutic approach in Hong Kong, for its incorporation of traditional Chinese philosophies embedded in local Chinese individuals
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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