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Exploring the persuasive effects of altruistic behaviour framing with affect-inducing images in print advertisements.
No full textA type of goal-framing in health-promoting messages that is researched infrequently is altruistic behaviour framing (ABF) where the recipient of the message is not the direct beneficiary of the advocated behaviour but instead someone else benefits when the message recipient conforms to the advocated behaviour. The current study focused on exploring the persuasive effects of goal-framing in advertisements on behavioural intentions of participants in the altruistic setting of blood donations. The current study included the use of affect-inducing images with the prediction that matching affect-inducing images would amplify the persuasive effects of both gain- and loss-framing in advertisements as recent studies found that gain-framing evokes positive affect and loss-framing evokes negative affect. The first goal of this study was to research if the effectiveness of goal-framing is also applicable to the altruistic topic of blood donations and secondly if images evoke affect and if affect is a mediator between the framed message and behavioural intent to donate blood
The reflection of core values in a company’s logo and slogan – An experimental study
No full textLogos and slogans are an important part of how a company presents itself to its stakeholders as it provides visibility and recognisability which translates into a company’s corporate visual identity. This study focused on researching if a company’s core values were reflected by their logo and how the addition of the slogan affected the recognisability, the reflection of the core values by the logo and the attitude of the participants towards the logo and brand. Recent studies on core value representation by logos have found contradicting results without sufficient empirical evidence. This study delivered more empirical evidence by conducting an experiment consisting of a 2 x 1 between-subjects post-test only design with one manipulation, namely, logos with slogans and logos without slogans, featuring 125 Dutch-speaking participants. This experiment used stimuli consisting of well-known international independent sports brands which featured Nike, Adidas and Puma. Results strongly indicate that the addition of the slogan to the logo had no positive effect on both logo and brand recognition. The participants’ associations with the logo resulted in anything except appointing core values to the logos of the brands even with the addition of the slogan. Adding the slogan to the logo to research the fit between the core value and the logo had no effect unless the core value was directly relatable to the slogan. The attitude from the participants towards the logo and brand were not affected in any way by the addition of the slogan
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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