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Directing attitudes? : The neuroscientist Tania Singer, her project Caring Economics and the concept of the human being according to the Second Vatican Council
No full textDie vorliegende Arbeit untersucht neuere Veröffentlichungen der Neurowissenschaftlerin Tania Singer zur Empathie-Forschung und zu Mitgefühl in der Wirtschaft hinsichtlich ihrer Relevanz für das christliche Menschenbild, die katholische Soziallehre, sowie die pastorale Praxis. Tania Singer hat gezeigt, dass sich die Fähigkeit von Menschen zu Mitgefühl durch gezieltes Meditationstraining stärken lässt. Ausgehend von ihrer Meditationsforschung entwirft Tania Singer in ihrem Buch Mitgefühl in der Wirtschaft die Vision, Wirtschaftssysteme menschlicher zu gestalten und das Menschenbild vom rational eigennützigen homo oeconomicus zu überwinden. Diese innerweltliche Hoffnung auf Verbesserung in der Welt wird in dieser Masterarbeit aus theologischer Sicht betrachtet. Zunächst werden die Ergebnisse und Ansätze von Tania Singer mit dem Menschenbild und der Soziallehre in Gaudium et Spes, Caritas in Veritate und dem Katechismus der Katholischen Kirche in Beziehung gesetzt. Der Vergleich zeigt aus Sicht der theologischen Anthropologie eine hohe Übereinstimmung mit dem christlichen Menschenbild und starke Parallelen zur katholischen Soziallehre. Das Trainingsprogramm ist daher mit entsprechenden Anpassungen in der pastoralen Praxis einsetzbar, zum Beispiel um die Neigung zum solidarischen Handeln und das Selbstwertgefühl von Menschen zu stärken. Ein solches Meditationsprogramm kann darüber hinaus wichtige Impulse für einen überkonfessionellen Wertekonsens und eine entsprechende Wertevermittlung in einer säkularen Gesellschaft geben. Inwieweit sich dies in einer individualistischen Gesellschaft real umsetzen lässt bleibt offen. In Übereinstimmung mit der katholischen Soziallehre muss eine gesellschaftliche Veränderung sowohl auf der Ebene der Einstellungen von Individuen als auch bei den Prioritäten und Regeln eines Gemeinwesens ansetzen. Für die Frage, wie ein solcher Prozess in Gang gesetzt werden kann, gibt Tania Singers Vision wertvolle Impulse.This master thesis reflects recent publications of the neuroscientist Tania Singer regarding the mechanisms of human empathy and of Caring Economics with respect to both the catholic concepts of the human being and society and pastoral practice. Tania Singer has shown that the ability of an individual to perform empathy can be considerably strengthened by a dedicated training of meditation. From these results Tania Singer sketches her vision of Caring Economics by turning economical systems more human and surmounting the conventional concept of man as selfish and rational homo oeconomicus. This secular pledge for an improvement of the situation in the world is studied in this thesis from a theological perspective. As a first step we are reviewing the results and claims of Tania Singer on the background of the teachings within Gaudium et Spes, Caritas in Veritate and the Katechismus der Katholischen Kirche. The comparison shows high congruence with positions of theological anthropology and the catholic concept of society. The meditation training proposed by Tania Singer can therefore be adapted for the use in pastoral efforts both in the parishes and in religious education. The program can help to strengthen the self-confidence of individuals and their inclination to empathic actions. The program of meditation could also serve as an impulse for defining inter-religious consensus and helping to promote basic virtues in a secular society. It remains nevertheless open how such a program could be executed in an individualistic society. Any change to the better has - in full accordance with the catholic teachings on society - to address both the moral of the individual and the rules and priorities in a society. The visions Tania Singer formulates can give valuable insight in how such a process of change could be initiated and further nurtured.eingereicht von Dipl.- Musikerin Daniele Kohler, BEdAbweichender Titel laut Übersetzung des Verfassers/der VerfasserinMasterarbeit Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz 201
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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