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Muslim Acculturation in a Catholic Country: Its Associations With Religious Identity, Beliefs, and Practices
Full text linkThe literature suggests that religion may play an important role in the acculturation process
of immigrants by contributing to the maintenance of the heritage culture and preventing
identification with the mainstream. With few exceptions, studies on this topic have focused on
religion as a whole by assessing specific aspects or dimensions (such as religious identification,
beliefs, and practices) and creating a composite measure without analyzing the contribution of
each dimension to the acculturation process. In this study, the relationships between specific
religious dimensions and acculturation were assessed with a sample of 282 Muslim immigrants
who were recruited in the northern part of Italy. Two regression models show that religious
identification drives the maintenance of Muslim culture but is unrelated to the acculturation to
Italian culture, whereas beliefs and practices do not contribute to heritage acculturation but are
negatively associated to acculturation to the host cultur
Religiously flexible: Acculturation of second-generation Muslims in Europe
Full text linkSecond-generation Muslims who follow their faith and feel discriminated against tend to maintain their heritage culture and distance themselves from the culture of the country where they grew up, setting the conditions for psychosocial maladjustment. Yet some second generation do find ways to adopt the mainstream culture while remaining attached to their heritage culture. To explain these contradictory observations, we investigated how second-generation Muslims manage to be part of both mainstream and heritage culture although their religion is commonly regarded as incompatible with Western values. To do this, we examined the role of flexibility in existential quest (EQ) in the acculturation of second-generation Muslims. Our hypothesis was that second generation integration is fostered by their ability to be flexible on EQ, which allows them to reflect on cultural and religious issues and to create a safe psychological place where they can practice their faith without feeling they need to withdraw from mainstream society. Two samples of second-generation Muslims, one from Italy (N = 240) and one from Belgium (N = 209), completed an online questionnaire. A multi-group structural equation model was tested. Religiosity, perceived discrimination, and sociodemographic variables were also considered. We noted a positive association between EQ and mainstream culture only for the Italian sample. Our findings suggest that flexibility on EQ is one aspect of the acculturation of second-generation Muslims and that it can provide a resource for coping with the challenge of growing up under dual cultural pressures
Does Existential Flexibility Associate With Individuals’ Acceptance of Inequality? A Study Relating Existential Questing to Values and to Prejudice
Full text linkThis study investigated whether existential quest, a relatively new construct defining individual willingness to reflect on existential issues such as the meaning of life and death, was negatively associated with generalized prejudice through the mediation with personal values of universalism and conservation (conformity, security, and tradition). A structural equation model was performed on a convenience sample of 1136 Italian adults. Results confirmed a negative indirect relationship with generalized prejudice mediated by universalism. Findings support the argument that engagement with existential issues is associated with the value of universalism, which in turn is associated with lower levels of generalized prejudice. The present study contributes to the scholarly literature to explain the concept of existential quest
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
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