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sj-pdf-1-smo-10.1177_20503121231172002 – Supplemental material for Usefulness of virtual autopsy in diagnosing pathologies in the paediatric population: A systematic review
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-smo-10.1177_20503121231172002 for Usefulness of virtual autopsy in diagnosing pathologies in the paediatric population: A systematic review by Chathula Wickramasinghe, Deepthi Edussuriya, Sriyani Perera and Nimashi Herath in SAGE Open Medicine</p
sj-docx-1-smo-10.1177_20503121231172002 – Supplemental material for Usefulness of virtual autopsy in diagnosing pathologies in the paediatric population: A systematic review
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-smo-10.1177_20503121231172002 for Usefulness of virtual autopsy in diagnosing pathologies in the paediatric population: A systematic review by Chathula Wickramasinghe, Deepthi Edussuriya, Sriyani Perera and Nimashi Herath in SAGE Open Medicine</p
Combining Local and Scientific Knowledge and Actions in Ecosystem-Based Disaster Risk Reduction in Sri Lanka
No full textDespite its growing recognition, community participation in ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction remains insufficient. Dominant approaches based on Western scientific knowledge often overlook local people’s knowledge, skills, capacities, and right to participate in ecosystem-disaster risk reduction. This can lead to a lack of community trust in ecosystem-based DRR, resulting in poor and unsustainable disaster risk reduction outcomes. This thesis aims to investigate how the integration of local knowledge and actions with Western scientific knowledge can strengthen the implementation and long-term viability of Ecosystem-based DRR in Sri Lanka.
The research was conducted in two phases using a qualitative framework informed by social constructivism. The first phase involved key informant interviews with practitioners from DRR and related fields to gather insights on the implementation of ecosystem-based DRR, as well as the combination of local and scientific knowledge and actions. The second phase focused on local people’s perceptions, knowledge, and actions in ecosystem-based DRR, focusing on two case studies capturing both rural and urban areas. The first case study was conducted in urban Kolonnawa, a Divisional Secretariat Division, a suburb of Colombo, the capital city, to assess urban residents' views and engagement in community initiatives. The second case study was conducted in Rathnapura Divisional Secretariat Division, a mountain township some 70km east of Colombo, targeting two rural areas to explore rural inhabitants' perceptions and participation in community efforts related to ecosystem-based DRR.
The study findings show that practitioners and urban and rural communities understand ecosystems' role in hazard mitigation but can lack awareness of how ecosystems can alleviate socioeconomic and cultural vulnerabilities. The research indicates that practitioners and communities in urban and rural areas clearly understand the link between ecosystem degradation and increased disaster risks. However, this awareness is tempered by socioeconomic, cultural, and political factors that compel communities to prioritize survival over long-term sustainability and contribute to ecological degradation, exacerbating disaster risk. Findings also indicate that local perspectives on the ecosystems that reduce disaster risks are contextual, with observable differences across environments.
The study further identifies that local people and practitioners recognize the importance of community involvement in ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction. In addition, the study finds that local people’s readiness to participate in ecosystem-based DRR is a strength for establishing community-led approaches to ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction. This research recognizes the dominance of Western scientific knowledge in DRR strategies, the existing top-down decision-making processes, and inefficiencies in current DRR policies as challenges to implementing ecosystem-based DRR in the study area and Sri Lanka.
The study emphasises ecosystem-based approaches as a successful approach to reduce disaster risks in Kolonnawa and Rathnapura, as well as in Sri Lanka and globally. However, it is essential to enhance communities’ and practitioners’ awareness of the importance of ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction in reducing socio-economic vulnerabilities. This enhanced awareness and acknowledgement would benefit people in areas where poverty and unemployment are prevalent and could significantly contribute not only to mitigating hazards but also to addressing socio-economic issues. To obtain the best of ecosystem-based DRR, it is essential to ensure that these initiatives are contextually relevant. To establish the contextuality of ecosystem-based DRR, it is imperative to enhance community participation in knowledge sharing, governance, data, and information sharing. To ensure community participation, national, regional, and international ecosystem-based DRR policy frameworks should recognize and integrate local knowledge and actions
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
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