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Are the short and long forms of Young Schema Questionnaire comparable and how well does each version predict psychopathology scores?
No full textYoung's Schema Questionnaire (YSQ; Young & Brown,1994) was developed to measure schemas that may need to be modified during therapy. This study examines whether the long and short forms of the YSQ produce comparable scores in a heterogenous group of psychiatric outpatients. The study also looks at how well each version predicts psychopathology measured by the SCL-90 -R (Derogatis 1977). The results of this study show that the two versions of the YSQ have similar levels of internal consistency, parallel forms reliability and concurrent validity, and indicate that the short from can be used with reasonable confidence by the clinician and researcher. Both versions of the YSQ were modest predictors of psychopathology scores and each version produced slightly different patterns of predictions although there was overlap between the predicted schemas in each version
Analyzing Coronary Heart Disease Risk Factors and Proper Clinical Prescription of Statins
No full textA sample of adults participating in the first 7 months of visit 5 of the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study were analyzed to determine if they were receiving statin treatment, when indicated, based on their risk factors for coronary heart disease. This sample consisted of male and female adults ages 67 through 89. Data collected from the ARIC study along with the Framingham risk score were used to calculate participants ten year risk. Next, the Third Report of the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults report was used to determine if the 10 year risk was great enough to warrant statin use. It was found that 163 of 831 males and 213 of 1145 females were not on statins even though their risk factors suggested they should be.This research was supported by the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP).Thorne, Peter. (2012). Analyzing Coronary Heart Disease Risk Factors and Proper Clinical Prescription of Statins. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/123524
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
Mauritius Royal Alfred Observatory parallel temperature measurements 1884-1903, original file in °Fahrenheit
No full textA suite of parallel meteorological measurements were undertaken over the extended period 1884-1903 at the Royal Alfred Observatory in Mauritius. The data were observed in: a well-ventilated room, by means of a Thermograph in a dedicated building, in a Stevenson Screen and by a Hygrometer in a different Stevenson Screen both in an enclosure, and for a short period two additional Stevenson Screens. Data were recorded in a series of annual reports from the observatory - two forms of which were produced each year. However, only a subset of these reports have been found. Data have been transcribed as monthly summaries of maximum, minimum, average (of certain hours) and mean (of max/min). The latter have been computed from max and min where not directly reported. All values are in the originally reported Fahrenheit values. Data were transcribed for a masters thesis by Samuel Awe and supplemented by subsequent transcriptions by Peter Thorne
Mauritius Royal Alfred Observatory parallel temperature measurements 1884-1903
No full textA suite of parallel meteorological measurements were undertaken over the extended period 1884-1903 at the Royal Alfred Observatory in Mauritius. The data were observed in: a well-ventilated room, by means of a Thermograph in a dedicated building, in a Stevenson Screen and by a Hygrometer in a different Stevenson Screen both in an enclosure, and for a short period two additional Stevenson Screens. Data were recorded in a series of annual reports from the observatory - two forms of which were produced each year. However, only a subset of these reports have been found. Data have been transcribed as monthly summaries of maximum, minimum, average (of certain hours) and mean (of max/min). The latter have been computed from max and min where not directly reported. All values are in the originally reported Fahrenheit values. Data were transcribed for a masters thesis by Samuel Awe and supplemented by subsequent transcriptions by Peter Thorne
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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