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Peoria State Hospital School of Psychiatric Nursing: Ward Manual
Full text linkThis document is the Peoria State Hospital School of Psychiatric Nursing: Ward Manual. The owner; Evelyn Cornelius Lantz \u2741, was a nursing student with Illinois Wesleyan\u27s partner at the time Brokaw Hospital. Assigned to the recently built State Hospital in Peoria for clinicals, Lantz used this manual to take notes on her patients, marking the best types of care for each mental affliction.https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/nursing_documents/1005/thumbnail.jp
Maude Essig\u27s Account of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
No full textThis entry holds three artifacts that share how IWU students responded to the Spanish Influenza Pandemic. These documents are a Nurses World War I diary, Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI) Infirmary, and Argus The Flu Poem.https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/nursing_archives/1022/thumbnail.jp
Behind the Mask: Unveiling the Hidden Narratives of the Spanish Flu and Unearthing its Elusive Memory
Full text linkIn the fall of 1918, as World War I drew to a close, a greater killer swept across the globe: Influenza. Within a year, influenza infected one-third of the world’s population and killed between 50 to 100 million people, whereas the First World War claimed an estimated 16 million lives. Yet, when we study the early 1900s, the Flu is a minor footnote and has remained largely dormant in pandemic memory until the recent COVID-19 Pandemic. Why has the Flu been ‘forgotten,’ and what untold stories challenge the established narratives surrounding it? By exploring both collective and individual memories of children, nurses, and public figures, this study examines the localized impact of the Flu in the Midwest. These perspectives highlight how locals confronted, discussed, and understood the flu illustrating why these accounts were silenced. In some cases, the pandemic\u27s influence was most pronounced in smaller, rural areas, where public response to the disease and its effects were shaped by different social, economic, and political forces than those functioning within larger metropolitan regions. The pandemic in these areas competed with the Great War, had no clear victory with a lack of heroic figures, resulting in its deliberate erasure from cultural memory
Stephanie Davis-Kahl
No full textDavis-Kahl discusses Ames Library, the impact of COVID-19 on library operations, and the future of libraries
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
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