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CRICOTHYROTOMY: An eLearning Module
No full textIntroduction: After graduating from medical school students can enter emergency medicine residency which is a three or four-year long program aimed and teaching them to become emergency medicine physicians. During this time learning is focused on clinical knowledge, clinical practice, didactic and procedure training. One airway procedure residents learn is the cricothyrotomy which is a low frequency, high risk procedure. The purpose of this project was to create an online asynchronous learning module that utilized multimedia and interactivity to teach the emergency cricothyrotomy. Literature Review: Millennial learners, defined as those born from years 1982 to 2004, differ from previous generations in that they grew up with technology, they are self- directed and find benefit in the application of knowledge, not just the acquisition of knowledge. Simulation, augmented reality, flipped classroom and asynchronous learning as all different types of education that help learners gain and apply knowledge and are proven efficacious means to teach millennial learners. Further the millennial’s ease with technology is an easy way to blend traditional education with asynchronous learning and the integration of multimedia modules. Methodology: The author uses the ADDIE model of instructional design to develop an asynchronous learning module to teach the emergency cricothyrotomy. Analysis phase consisted of determining the target audience, a needs assessment to determine the appropriate procedure to use for the subject of the module and the learners access to technology. Next the layout of the learning module was determined in the design phase. The development phase consisted of creating the final product—photographs, videos and audio recordings were developed and questions were generated. All content was imported to a MacBook and then into the program Adobe Captivate 9® to create the fully interactive module. The author strived to abide by Myer’s Multimedia Principles when creating the e-learning module. During the implementation phase the author tested the module on several different computers, tablets and phones. Instructional review board approval was obtained at both Cal Poly Pomona and UC Irvine. Lastly was the evaluation phase where the learners were provided the module to complete and assessed on a Kirkpatrick level one and two—reactions and knowledge retention. Discussion: Twenty Four residents were sent the asynchronous learning module. Thirteen residents completed the module, the average end of the module quiz was 97%, with a high of 100% and a low of 87.5%. Overall the residents had positive comments regarding the module, with the main negative comments being the difficulty with functionality on phones. Although this was a small single location study the results are promising that an asynchronous module can be used to teach procedures and test learning retention
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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