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Getting a life: professional views of its effectiveness and employment outcomes
No full textThe Welsh Centre for Learning Disabilities was commissioned to evaluate the GAL initiative. As a part of a wider evaluation of the GAL initiative, this paper sets out an analysis of:
1. the views of professionals involved in the delivery of GAL of its strengths and weaknesses and what it has achieved
2. the extent to which GAL helped more people with learning disabilities to enter paid employment than those without the interventio
Service packages for people with severe challenging behaviour. Funded/commissioned by: Welsh Centre for Learning Disabilities Applied Research Unit
No full textThe hospital closure programme in England and Wales has encouraged planners, purchasers and providers to focus on the individual elements which comprise an appropriate living environment for people who were formerly accommodated in institutions. Service users who require intensive staffing arrangements are often among the last to leave hospital. The care packages arranged for them in community settings are likely to be expensive, and may cost more than care within a hospital. Researchers at the Personal Social Services Research Unit at the University of Kent at Canterbury (PSSRU) were asked by Professor David Felce and colleagues at the Welsh Centre for Learning Disabilities (WCLD) to undertake a costs study as part of their evaluation of service packages received by people with the most profound learning disabilities and severe challenging behaviour in Wales. Our remit was to provide a research instrument designed to collect information about client income, accommodation and day care arrangements and all other care package components;to calculate unit costs for the various specialist accommodation facilities, hospital services, day care arrangements, and all other services used by study members; to calculate the costs of each individual care package to undertake some descriptive analyses across the whole sample on service receipt patterns and costs
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
Changing day services : Do you agree?
No full textModels of day services for people with intellectual disabilities in Scotland are changing, with the purpose, content and availability being reviewed. There has been concern that a move to more flexible “alternative day opportunities” is driven more by reduced budgets than a policy of modernising day services in response to individual needs. During a day services review, a questionnaire was used to rate and to collect views on existing services from 60 carers, service users and staff. This included evaluating day activities available, care plans, opening times, transport and the most valued aspects of existing day services. Respondents indicated general satisfaction with existing day services, although half believed that day services should be reviewed. The most valued parts of day services were forming and building friendships, and a safe place to go. Day services are highly valued by families and service users. Recommendations are made for a robust and transparent review process.Peer reviewe
Evidence on Service Quality for the Social Services Inspectorate Inspection Process: Piloting the Application of Research
No full textThis paper describes the piloting of an approach to social services inspection using a range of objective research evidence as part of the Social Services Inspectorate's inspection process in 1997, in eight local authorities in England. The Welsh Centre for Learning Disabilities Applied Research Unit worked with the Social Services Inspectorate to collect details on residential and day services in advance of the inspection process. The paper repeats the findings of this Report and of the collaboration.</jats:p
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
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