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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
Tei M+ayema: Un proyecto de educación autónoma
Full text linkEl objetivo principal de este proyecto es producir un reportaje que tendrá una salida en texto y otra en formato audiovisual. La idea es que a través de este reportaje seamos capaces de profundizar en los elementos fundamentales de la identidad wixárika, así como en las dificultades históricas y actuales que han afectado la preservación de su modelo organizacional y educativo. Para esto, se tomará como caso de estudio la situación de la secundaria Tei M+ayema en Mesa de Chapalilla. Este centro educativo nació como respuesta a la preocupación de la comunidad de Mesa de Chapalilla (Tsapara) por el abandono de las fiestas tradicionales y desinterés de los jóvenes por participar en ellas. Poniendo en riesgo la preservación de la cosmovisión wixárika. Así mismo, la comunidad estaba preocupada porque percibían que la educación que brinda el Estado mexicano es predominantemente castellanizante y busca erradicar a las lenguas indígenas. En este sentido, la secundaria Tei M+ayema se ha convertido en un proyecto importante para la comunidad, ya que busca establecer las bases para la preservación de la lengua, las tradiciones y los conocimientos wixárikas; esto incluye sus artes, las fiestas, la música y los ritos. Es crucial para la comunidad
de Tsapara mantener estas enseñanzas y transmitirlas a las nuevas generaciones para así evitar la pérdida de la lengua, la identidad cultural y del conocimiento ancestral.
Con la realización del reportaje, se espera encontrar hallazgos en torno a los rezagos históricos y los desafíos actuales que enfrenta el pueblo wixárika para acceder a una educación con pertinencia cultural.ITESO, A.C
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
Sensorial saturation for infants' pain
No full textIntroduction: Sensorial saturation (SS) is a multisensorial stimulation consisting of delicate tactile, gustative, auditory and visual stimuli. This procedure consists of simultaneously: attracting the infant's attention by massaging the infant's face; speaking to the infant gently, but firmly, and instilling a sweet solution on the infant's tongue. Methods: We performed a systematic Medline search of for articles focusing on human neonatal studies related to SS. The search was performed within the last 10 years and was current as of January 2012. Results: We retrieved 8 articles that used a complete form of SS and 2 articles with an incomplete SS. Data show that the use of SS is effective in relieving newborns' pain. Oral solution alone are less effective than SS, but the stimuli without oral sweet solution are ineffective. the partial forms of SS have some effectiveness, but minor than the complete SS. Only one article showed lack of SS as analgesic method, after endotracheal suctioning. Conclusions: SS can be used for all newborns undergoing blood samples or other minor painful procedures. It is more effective than oral sugar alone. SS also promotes interaction between nurse and infant and is a simple effective form of analgesia for the neonatal intensive care unit
Why do we treat the newborn differently?
No full textEnd-of-life decisions are often taken in neonatology, based on widely accepted guidelines, to avoiding futile therapies. Usually, the criteria upon which these guidelines rely are different from those used for older patients, even when patients require a guardian to decide on their behalf. Main differences are the weight of parental interests and the probabilistic base of the choice. A careful analysis of the literature found three main reasons of this difference: the obsolescence of the guidelines criteria, the difficulty to distinguish between parents' and babies' interests and the neonatologist's responsibility to prolong a life with the prospective of severe disability. In conclusion, the future guidelines for newborn end-of-life decisions should follow at least the same moral criteria used for older patients
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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