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    Conceptualising the psychological adaption of trainee clinical psychologists : the contribution of attributional style and personality

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    Student Health Professionals (SHPs) are at risk for symptoms relating to a range of psychological problems, including anxiety, depression, drug and alcohol use, and stress.  It is therefore important to develop methods for identifying individuals who might be at current or future risk, and to establish theoretically supported interventions.  The current literature review indicates that further research is required in these areas and seeks to provide some suggestions about empirically based frameworks which might support approaches to screening and intervention.  Differences between professional groups indicate the need for research to be focused on specific groups of SHPs.  Trainee Clinical Psychologists (TCPs) are the focus of the current paper.  The example of depression in undergraduate students is then taken as an illustration of the potential applications of cognitive models for identifying and intervening with individuals at risk of depression and other problems.  The possible role of cognitive constructs (dysfunctional attitudes and attributional style) in TCP experiences of poor psychological adaptation is discussed. The purpose of the empirical paper was to explore the contributions of two risk factors (personality as conceived of within the five-factor model, and attributional style), to psychological adaptation (problems relating to depression, anxiety, self-esteem and work adjustment) in TCPs.  Structural equation modelling was used to model these relationships.  The latent personality factor of stability (neuroticism reversed, agreeableness, and conscientiousness) was an extremely good predictor of psychological adaptation.  When stability was controlled for the contribution of attributional style was not significant.  However given the clinical relevance of attributional style and potential for modification it was also considered in a separate model as a sole predictor where it was found to be significant.  Implications for screening and intervention are discussed.</p

    Review of \u3cem\u3eHunger in the Land of Plenty: A Critical Look at Food Insecurity\u3c/em\u3e. James D. Wright, Amy Donley, and Sara Strickhouser Vega

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    James D. Wright, Amy Donley, and Sara Strickhouser Vega, Hunger in the Land of Plenty: A Critical Look at Food Insecurity. Lynne Rienner Publishers (2019), 183 pages, $65.00 (hardcover)

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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

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    We 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

    Author Index

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    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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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