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As inclusion is concerned, I am committed in my work to...
No full textIn developing the stimulus ‘As inclusion is concerned, I am committed in my work to...’ we were interested in highlighting and sharing the idea that achieving truly inclusive societies requires commitments and responsibilities that guide practitioners’, teachers’, and scholars’ specific choices and actions. In other words, we were interested in making explicit the commitments that those who have adhered to this initiative intend to assume so as to remove barriers to inclusion, to begin collaborations and alliances with actors
who can influence inclusive outcomes, and to implement interventions for the benefit
of inclusion. Additionally, we wanted to structure a process by which practitioners and
researchers could ‘shape’ a tacit ‘contract’, by specifying the responsibilities and commitments that will be taken to promote school, work, and social inclusion.
Our focus on a personal commitment to inclusive societies stems from the fact that
actions to achieve such outcomes emanate from individual values, beliefs, and aspirations; perceptions of one’s moral role; and how one frames one’s professional identity.
A belief in inclusive societies and actions to achieve such outcomes is inspired by one’s
moral values for and ethics of global acceptance, tolerance, and respect for others and a
drive for social justice. Additionally, such actions operationalize values of respect for the
dignity of every person and an appreciation of the critical importance of diversity, nondiscrimination, pluralism, equality of opportunity, solidarity, security, non-violence,
and full participation in society for all people, including people who are among the
most vulnerable in our societies (DESA, 2009)
Self-determination, social abilities and the quality of life of people with intellectual disability
No full textBackground The international literature has documented
that self-determination is impacted by environmental
factors, including living or work settings;
and by intraindividual factors, including intelligence
level, age, gender, social skills and adaptive behaviour.
In addition, self-determination has been correlated
with improved quality of life (QoL). This
study sought to contribute to the growing literature
base in this area by examining the relationship
among and between personal characteristics, selfdetermination,
social abilities and the environmental
living situations of people with intellectual
disabilities (ID).
Methods The study involved 141 people with ID
residing in Italy. Healthcare professionals and social
workers who had known participants for at least
1 year completed measures of self-determination,
QoL and social skills. Analysis of variance was conducted
to verify whether different levels of intellectual
impairment were associated with different
degrees of the dependent variables.The Pearson
product–moment correlation was used to examine
any relationships among dependent variables and
IQ scores. Finally, discriminant function analysis
was used to examine the degree to which IQ score,
age, self-determination and social abilities predicted
membership in groups that were formed based on
living arrangement, and on QoL status (high vs.
low).
Results The anova determined, as expected, that
participants with more severe ID showed the lowest
levels of self-determination, QoL and social abilities.
Discriminant function analysis showed that (a)
individuals attending day centres were distinguished
from those living in institutions in that they were
younger and showed greater autonomy of choice
and self-determination in their daily activities; (b)
basic social skills and IQ score predicted membership
in the high or low QoL groups; and (c) the IQ
score predicted membership in the high or low selfdetermination
groups. A manova conducted to
examine gender- and age-level differences on selfdetermination
found gender differences; women had
higher self-determination scores than men.
Conclusions These findings contribute to an
emerging knowledge base pertaining to the role of
intraindividual and environmental factors in selfdetermination
and QoL. In general, the study replicated
findings pertaining to the relative contribution
of intelligence to self-determination and QoL,
added information about the potential contribution
of social abilities, and pointed to the potentially
important role of opportunities to make choices as
a particularly important aspect of becoming more
self-determined, at least in the context of residential
settings
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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