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Language-enhanced cognitive skills model
No full textThis is a model of cognitive skills required in the workplace which enhance previous models by including a more detailed measurement of linguistic skills. Linguistic skills are defined as the set of abilities, competencies and knowledge which principally involve the use of linguistic code. More specifically, the linguistic items used are reading and writing competencies, ability to speak, listen or communicate, as well as knowledge of second languages (as a whole). These variables were factorialised together with a list of competencies from previous models of cognitive skills. Principal component analysis (PCA) with equamax rotation was applied to reduce the dimensionality of all items to a few interpretable dimensions according to the correlations between them. The result is nine factors with similar variances among at least three express linguistic-related skills: The first factor expresses the demand for scientific and engineering knowledge. The second refers to a collection of competencies which could be called verbal-reasoning. These include deductive and inductive reasoning skills or those of identifying and solving complex problems. Some linguistic competencies relating to the level of oral and written comprehension and expression are also relevant in this factor. The third factor expresses numerical or quantitative competencies. The fourth expresses the demand for communicative competencies, composed of variables related to efficient communication goals such as clarity of speech, active listening or speaking. The fifth factor expresses creative abilities. The sixth, competencies and knowledge linked to electronics and computers. The seventh expresses managerial competencies. The eighth expresses nurturing competencies and the ninth factor basically expresses knowledge of foreign languages.For more detail about the development of these scales and indexes and their application can see: Ubalde, Josep & Alarcón, Amado (2020). Are all automation-resistant skills rewarded? Linguistic skills in the U.S. labour market. https://doi.org/10.1177/103530462090315
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
Language attitude adoption: a cross-sectional study on attitudes towards Catalan among adolescents from Catalonia and La Franja
Full text linkLes actituds lingüístiques dels parlants d’una determinada llengua poden tenir un impacte important en la seva situació i evolució, especialment en els casos de contacte entre comunitats de parla. En el present estudi s’analitzen, comparativament, les actituds lingüístiques dels adolescents de primer d’ESO de diferents municipis de Catalunya i la Franja de Ponent. Concretament, es busca explicar el perquè de l’adopció d’aquestes actituds mitjançant un model de regressió lineal múltiple que combina les variables rellevants de diferents aproximacions empíriques i teòriques. Els resultats mostren que hi ha una major valoració d’aquesta llengua en els municipis catalans que en els de la Franja. En el context català són les variables d’identificació les que millor expliquen aquesta situació, mentre que a la Franja el factor clau és l’autoconfiança lingüística. És destacable, en els dos casos, l’efecte de les comunalitats de les diferents variables en l’explicació de les actituds.Paraules clau: actituds vers el català, Catalunya i la Franja, regressió lineal, mesures d’importància de les variables.The linguistic attitudes of the speakers of a language can have great impact on the status and evolution of that language, particularly in cases in which there is contact among different speech communities. This study provides a comparative analysis of the attitudes towards the Catalan language among adolescents in the first year of secondary school in different municipalities of Catalonia and the bordering Catalan-speaking region of Aragón, known as La Franja. The primary aim of this article is to explain the causes of language attitude in adolescents. To do so, we use a multiple linear regression model that combines the most significant variables of different empirical and theoretical approaches. The results show a higher appreciation for the Catalan language in the municipalities of Catalonia than in those the neighbouring areas of La Franja. Whilst this situation is best explained by identity variables in Catalonia, linguistic self-confidence is the key factor in the case of La Franja. In both cases, the effects of commonalities among the different variables are noteworthy in explaining language attitudes.Key words: attitudes towards Catalan, Catalonia and La Franja, linear regression, variable importance measures
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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