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5th Annual MHIRT E. Ho'oulu Haumana Ceremony
Full text linkMHIRT 2018 is in the fifth year of the program. During the first four years of the program, 38 students completed the program; conducted research in Cameroon, Thailand, Germany, Palau and India; and are now continuing their academic or professional careers. They are the best recruiting tool we have. This year, we were excited when a large number of students applied for the program. After a very competitive process, in January 2018 twelve students were selected. From the first meeting, it was clear that MHIRT 2018 students were bright, hardworking and full of energy. We have truly enjoyed working with them.
The short-term goals of the MHIRT program are to provide each student with an intellectually stimulating research experience, an interesting culture exchange, and a safe return home from abroad. Over the last eight months, many people have contributed their time, talent, and expertise to ensure success of the MHIRT program. We send a huge MAHALO to the MHIRT students, the University of Hawai’i faculty mentors, the international mentors, the faculty who have participated in the pre- and post-travel workshops, and the staff for their organizational skills. But most of all, we want to thank the parents, families, and friends for their support. Without the support of the MHIRT families, this project would not be possible. I personally thank Dr. Angela Sy and Ms. Laarni Sumibcay for their hardwork in keeping the MHIRT program on track.
The long-term goal of the program is to increase the number of under-represented scientists in biomedical research. E Ho’oulu Haumana summarizes our goals as the words essentially mean "the growth of students." The program seeks to provide MHIRT students with the help and encouragement they need as they transition from undergraduate students, to graduate students in the biomedical sciences, to future leaders in biomedical research. Although the students officially complete the program tonight, it doesn’t end here. We will continue to help the students conduct research in Hawai’i, provide advice on career options, and (of course) write letters of recommendation as MHIRT 2018 students enter the next phase of their career. We are sure everyone will enjoy watching the continued growth of our MHIRT 2018 students.UH MHIRT Progra
Minority Health and Health Disparities International Research Training (MHIRT) Program at the University of Hawaii
Full text linkThe objective of the Minority Health International Research Training (MHIRT) program at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) is to encourage students from under represented (including minority) backgrounds to pursue careers in science; and expose students to biomedical, clinical, and behavioral health research and global health issues that relate to health disparities. The program also aims to enable collaborations between colleges/universities and international research programs. Funded by the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), the UHM MHIRT program is in its sixth year. The MHIRT program is a short-term international research training opportunity offered to undergraduate, post-baccalaureate, and pre-doctoral students from under-represented backgrounds. MHIRT students are from various academic disciplines at UH and have diverse ethnic backgrounds. To date, the MHIRT program has trained six (6) cohorts of students totaling 60 students. Selected students learn to conduct research during the spring semester and spend 8-9 weeks during the summer at their international training sites under the guidance of their assigned in-country mentor and their UH mentor. In addition to life-changing research and cultural experiences program benefits include: up to10 credits of directed research courses in the spring and summer semesters and while abroad students are provided with a stipend, travel, and living expenses.NI
6th Annual E Ho'oulu Haumana MHIRT Ceremony Booklet
Full text linkE Ho’oulu Haumana summarizes our goals as the words essentially mean "the growth of students." The MHIRT program seeks to provide students with the help and encouragement they need as they transition from undergraduate students, to graduate students in the biomedical sciences, to future leaders in biomedical research.MHIR
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
Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Training (MHRT) Program at the University of Hawaii
Full text linkThe objective of the Minority Health Research Training (MHRT) program at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) is to encourage students from underrepresented (including minority) backgrounds to pursue careers in science; and expose students to biomedical, clinical, and behavioral health research and global health issues that relate to health disparities. The program also aims to enable collaborations between colleges/universities and out-of-state research programs. Funded by the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), the UHM MHRT program is in its ninth year. The MHRT program is a short-term research training opportunity offered to undergraduate, post-baccalaureate, and pre-doctoral students from under-represented backgrounds. MHRT students are from various academic disciplines at UH and have diverse ethnic backgrounds. To date, the MHRT program has trained eight (8) cohorts of students totaling 85 students. Selected students learn to conduct research during the spring semester and spend 8-9 weeks during the summer at their international training sites under the guidance of their assigned in-country mentor and their UH mentor. In addition to life-changing research and cultural experiences, program benefits include up to10 credits of directed research courses in the spring and summer semesters, and while abroad students are provided with a stipend, travel, and living expenses.NIMHD/NIH-T37MD008636-0
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