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Correlates of gambling behaviors among Asian American university students
No full textThis study compared rates of gambling between Asian American and White undergraduate college students. No difference was found between the rates of the two groups. It also examined the gambling behavior of Asian American undergraduate college students in relation to a number of factors including alcohol use, sensation seeking, distress, and sex. Although some of these factors have been studied extensively among other ethnic groups, there has been little research conducted on the gambling patterns of Asian American students. Sex was found to be a significant predictor of Asian American student gambling, with males reporting more gambling and more engagement in different types of gambling activities than women. Furthermore, those with a higher tendency to experiment with novel and stimulating activities were also more likely to report more gambling than those who scored lower on novelty-oriented sensation seeking. This study did not find evidence that distress or alcohol use played a significant role in gambling behaviors in Asian American college students. There were, however, limitations to the measures and design that reduced the chances of significant findings on these variables. Future directions for Asian American gambling research are discussed.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 29-33)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
An opportunity study of a health food restaurant in Hong Kong.
Full text linkby Cheung Fung-yan, Grace, Chui Lai-ming, Dawn.Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1993.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 102-104).ABSTRACT --- p.iiTABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.vPREFACE --- p.viiACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --- p.viiiChapterChapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1Objectives --- p.2Report Organization --- p.3Chapter II. --- MARKET PROFILE: OPPORTUNITIES AND THREATS --- p.5Macro-environment Analysis --- p.6Micro-environment Analysis --- p.20A General Overview of the Opportunities and Threats for the Restaurant Business --- p.28Chapter III. --- CUSTOMER PROFILE --- p.31Needs --- p.31Market Segmentation --- p.34Summary --- p.38Chapter IV. --- METHODOLOGY --- p.40Secondary Data Collection --- p.40Primary Data Collection --- p.41Chapter V. --- FINDINGS AND ANALYSIS --- p.43Focus Groups Interviews --- p.43In-depth Interviews --- p.44Consumers' Attitudes About the Setting up of a Health Food Restaurant --- p.51Marketing Strategies for the Existing Restaurants --- p.52Chapter VI. --- MARKETING PLAN AND STRATEGY --- p.57Key Elements to Construct a Restaurant Marketing Plan --- p.57Product --- p.59Price --- p.65Promotion --- p.67Sales Force --- p.70Distribution --- p.72Summary --- p.74Chapter VII. --- BUSINESS PLAN --- p.75Initial Capital Requirement --- p.75Financing --- p.81Control --- p.82Summary --- p.88Chapter VIII. --- CONCLUSION --- p.89APPENDIX --- p.92BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.10
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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