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The relationship between spiritual well-being and quality of life in cancer survivors
No full textObjective. To evaluate the relationship between spiritual well-being (SpWB) and quality of life (QoL) in cancer (CA) survivors. Methods. The current study was conducted in the oncology center at a university hospital in Central Anatolia/Turkey. In this study, a descriptive cross-sectional survey design was used. The data collected included: a questionnaire form, the current study was conducted in the oncology center at a university hospital in Central Anatolia/Turkey. In this study, a descriptive cross-sectional survey design was used. SpWB was assessed by the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Spiritual Well‐Being Scale, version 4 (FACIT‐Sp12, v. 4), including Meaning, Peace, and Faith subscales. The QoL was evaluated using the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy‐General scale (FACT-G, v. 4). The results were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson correlations, independent sample t-test, Kruskal-Wallis, and MannWhitney U test. Results. One hundred fifty patients participated in this study: 61.30% female, 78% 45 years of age or older, 94.70% married, 46% had finished, and 69% had gastrointestinal tract CA. The mean age was 53.48 (SD = 9.43). The majority of participants (96.7%) endorsed “a force pushing them a will to live” while 59.3% supported “the power of relationships with others.” There was a positive, strong correlation between overall QoL and SpWB (r = 0.619, p < 0.01). The Meaning dimensions of SpWB with Functional Well-Being (FWB) and overall QoL (r = 0.512; 0.595, p < 0.000 respectively), Peace with Emotional Well-Being (EWB) and FWB (r = 0.598; 0.540, p < 0.000 respectively) dimensions of FACT-G and overall QoL (r = 0.609, p < 0.001) were strong correlated. Faith and QoL were not significantly correlated. Significance of results. This study demonstrates that SpWB positively contributed to the QoL of CA survivors. SpWB is not necessarily limited to any specific types of beliefs or practices. For some people, faith in self, others and/or God constitutes, in large part, the meaning, purpose, and fulfillment they find in life
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
Social studies teachers conceptions of history and pedagogical orientations toward teaching history
No full textBu çalışma, sosyal bilgiler öğretmenlerinin tarih algısını ve tarih öğretimine pedagojik yaklaşımlarını ortaya koymak amacıyla yapı lmıştır. Nitel araştırma metodolojisi kullanılarak yürütülen çalışmada, katılımcıların belirlenmesinde amaçlı örneklem seçimi, verilerin toplanmasında yarı- yapılandırılmış görüşme formu ve elde edilen verilerin analiz edilmesinde betimsel analiz yöntemi kullanılmıştır. Araştırma sonucunda, katılımcıların tarihin doğasına ilişkin naif bir epistemolojik bakış açısına sahip oldukları, tarih algılarının tarihin çalışma konusu olan geçmiş ile sınırlı olduğu belirlenmiştir. Cinsiyetin katılımcıların tarih algıları ve tarih öğretiminin amaçlarına ilişkin görüşleri üzerinde etkili olduğu, erkek öğretmenlerin tarih algılarının kadın öğretmenlerinkinden çok daha milliyetçi bir çizgide olduğu tespit edilmiştir. Erkek öğretmenler, tarih algılarını açıklarken millet ve milli tarih gibi kavramları geçmiş ile birlikte kullanma eğilimi göstermişlerdir. Kadın öğretmenler ise tarihi daha evrensel diyebileceğimiz insan, geçmiş ve uygarlık kavramları ile birlikte ele almışlardır. Tarih öğretiminde erkek öğretmenler milli geçmiş ve milli kültürün öğretilmesine, kadın öğretmenler ise bu geleneksel amaçların ötesinde yüksek düzeyde düşünme becerilerinin öğrencilere kazandırılmasının önemine vurgu yapmışlardır. Tüm öğretmenler görüş birliği içeris inde ilköğretim sosyal bilgiler öğretim programında tarihe yeterince yer verilmediğini, tarih konularının basite indirgeyici yüzeysel bir yaklaşımla ele alındığını belirtmişlerdir. Öğretmenlerin tarih öğretiminde kullandıkları yöntemler ve karşılaştıklar ı sorunlar da araştırma sonuçları arasında yer almaktadır.The purpose of this study was to investigate social studies teachers conceptions of history and pedagogical orientations toward teaching history. Qualitative research methods were employed in the study. Purposeful sampling procedure was used to select the participants. A semi-structured interview form was used to gather research data which were analyzed via the methods of descriptive data analysis. The study results showed that a naive epistemological view of history characterized the participants conceptions of history which were limited to the subject of history, the past, without including oth er important elements of history. Gender of the participants had effects on their conceptions of history and their perspectives on the purposes of history teaching. Male teachers conceptions of history were more nationalistic than female teachers . When explaining their conceptions of history, male teachers tended to draw on such concepts as nation and national history. In contrast, female teachers employed universa l concepts such as humanity, the past, and civilizations in their explanations. Whereas male teachers emphasized the importance of teaching national past and national culture to the young generations as important aims of history teaching, female teachers went beyond these traditional aims by stressing the need to develop students higher-order thinking skills. There was c onsensus among the participants perspectives on the place of history in the social studies curriculum. They all thought that there w as a superficial treatment of history topics in the curriculum. Teachers instructional approaches to tea ching history and the problems they c onfront when teaching it are also included in the study findings
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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