The Complexity of Measuring the Impact of Books     

Gali Halevi  Barnaby Nicolas  Judit Bar-Ilan 《Publishing Research Quarterly》2016,32(3):187-200

The purpose of this study was to discover whether there are scholarly evaluation metrics that can be applied to a wide range of books’ types and contents. We analyzed over 70,000 books and collected various metrics per each title including traditional and altmetrics measures. The analysis in this paper depicts the top books showing the highest rates of citations, reviews, readership, downloads, twitter and more. Our results show that books display different impact in each of the measurements and vary by types and content. There isn’t one measure that captures the impact of books across the board. We conclude that books should be evaluated by types and contents while using different measures per each.  相似文献   

Are teachers’ subjective feelings linked with need-supportive and need-thwarting motivating styles? A cross-lagged pilot study in physical education     

Burel  Nicolas  Tessier  Damien  Langdon  Jody 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》2021,36(4):1221-1241

This article examines the relations between the teachers’ subjective feeling and their motivating teaching style during physical education lessons. Doing so, it aimed at better understanding the emotional antecedents of the teaching behaviors. Twelve volunteer physical education teachers were filmed with their respective classes to assess the motivating style they used during their intervention. Immediately after, the subjective feelings they felt during the lesson were assessed using the affective slider in a video-based session. Cross-lagged multilevel modeling was then performed, controlling for emotional exhaustion level and demographic factors. Results showed that, at the within level, subjective pleasant feelings predicted positively the relatedness-supportive dimension of the motivating style, and negatively the controlling dimension. At the between level, the controlling dimension of the motivating style was positively related to the pleasant subjective feelings while the relatedness-thwarting dimension was negatively related to them. While literature has mainly examined the cognitive antecedents of teachers’ motivating styles, this study emphasizes the emotional processes occurring during the lesson. Based on the conceptual framework of teachers’ emotions model proposed by Frenzel (2014), results indicate that teachers react to their subjective feelings, modifying the way they interact with students accordingly. In parallel with cognitive determinants of teaching, the emotional dimension thus deserves to be more deeply considered in future teaching training programs.

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Variations in fathers’ discourse on fatherhood and in family alliances during infancy     

France Frascarolo  Chantal Zaouche-Gaudron  Véronique Rouyer  Nicolas Favez 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》2005,20(2):185-199

The aim of this pilot study is to analyse the discourse of fathers of toddlers concerning fatherhood and the link between some particularities in the discourse and family alliance. The sample consists of 13 Swiss first time fathers (5 fathers of girls and 8 of boys). In order to evaluate the paternal discourse, the fathers were given a semistructured interview, which was later analysed using the research package Alceste. The family alliance, i.e., the degree of coordination among the partners when executing a task together, was assessed through the Lausanne Trilogue Play (Fivaz-Depeursinge & Corboz-Warnery, 1999). The main results indicated an interesting link between classes of paternal discourse grouped around the following themes “affective relationship”, “daily routine” and “educational goals”, and the family alliance (defined in two major categories; functional and problematic alliances). Finally, clinical perspectives on links between paternal representations and family functioning at an interactive level are discussed.  相似文献   

Reviews     

Hugh Clapin  Katherine Neal  John Wennerbom  Barbara Nunn  Deborah Dysart  Andy Pickering  Lisa Featherstone  Hiram Caton  Dale Jacquette  Laura Ruetsche  William A. Turner  Cornelia Lüdecke  Birgit Lohmann  James Ladyman  Jonathan Coopersmith  David Oldroyd  Dennis Dean  Michael Ruse  Nicolas Rasmussen  William N. Kaghan  Martin Bridgstock  Geoffrey Cocks  Stephanie H. Kenen  Ivan Crozier  Sokhieng Au  Desmond Barrett  Mark Cortiula  Ian D. Lawrie 《Metascience》2001,10(1):50-149

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Statistics Online Computational Resource for Education     

Dinov ID  Christou N 《Teaching Statistics》2009,31(2):49-51

The Statistics Online Computational Resource (www.SOCR.ucla.edu) provides one of the largest collections of free Internet-based resources for probability and statistics education. SOCR develops, validates and disseminates two core types of materials - instructional resources and computational libraries.  相似文献   

A new presentation and exploration of human cerebral vasculature correlated with surface and sectional neuroanatomy     

Wieslaw L. Nowinski  Arumugam Thirunavuukarasuu  Ihar Volkau  Yevgen Marchenko  Bivi Aminah  Arnaud Gelas  Su Huang  Looi Chow Lee  Jimin Liu  Ting Ting Ng  Natalia G. Nowinska  Guoyu Yu Qian  Fiftarina Puspitasari  Val M. Runge 《Anatomical sciences education》2009,2(1):24-33

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Decreasing Internal Focus of Attention Improves Postural Control During Quiet Standing in Young Healthy Adults     

Gilel Nafati  Nicolas Vuillerme 《Research quarterly for exercise and sport》2013,84(4):634-643

This experiment was designed to investigate whether and how decreasing the amount of attentional focus invested in postural control could affect bipedal postural control. Twelve participants were asked to stand upright as immobile as possible on a force platform in one control condition and one cognitive condition. In the latter condition, they performed a short-term digit-span memory task. Decreased center-of-gravity displacements and decreased center-of-foot-pressure displacements minus center-of-gravity displacements were observed in the cognitive condition relative to the control condition. These results suggest that shifting the attentional focus away from postural control by executing a concurrent attention-demanding task could increase postural performance and postural efficiency.  相似文献   

Quantifying the nature of anticipation in professional tennis     

Celine Triolet  Nicolas Benguigui  Cyrille Le Runigo  A. Mark Williams 《Journal of sports sciences》2013,31(8):820-830

Abstract

We quantify the nature and frequency of anticipation behaviours in professional tennis using video coding of incidents where the time delay between the opponent's stroke and the reaction of the player were recorded. We argue that anticipation is based on uncertain information and should lead in some situations to erroneous decisions. We identified the transition between reaction (with 100% accuracy in the selection of where the ball is played on the court) and anticipation (with less than 100% accuracy) as being 140–160 ms after ball contact. Anticipation behaviours occurred on between 6.14% and 13.42% of the coded situations. These anticipation behaviours appeared almost exclusively in ‘unfavourable’ situations, where the opponent had a significant tactical advantage, with the type of playing surface having only a limited effect. Moreover, the decrease in accuracy with shorter response times is not monotonic, with an increase in response accuracy being observed for times shorter than 120 ms before ball contact. We propose that very early anticipation behaviours occur when players use significant context-specific information before the opponent's stroke. When such information is not available, players produce anticipation behaviours that are closer to the moment of ball–racket contact using information that is more likely to be based on the opponent's preparation of the stroke. This study opens new directions for research focusing on the testing and training of anticipation in fast ball sports.  相似文献   

Improving information retrieval using Medical Subject Headings Concepts: a test case on rare and chronic diseases     

SJ Darmoni  LF Soualmia  C Letord  MC Jaulent  N Griffon  B Thirion  A Névéol 《Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA》2012,100(3):176-183

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Were Women Really Underrepresented in Media Coverage of Summer Olympic Games (1984–2008)? An Invitation to Open a Methodological Discussion Regarding Sex Equity in Sports Media     

Nicolas Delorme 《Mass Communication and Society》2014,17(1):121-147

In previous literature, there is an important heterogeneity in how to proceed to determine whether media coverage of the Summer Olympics in relation to athletes' sex is equitable. Therefore, the aims of this study are to determine the most appropriate standards for this comparison and to use them to assess whether there are biases in the journalistic coverage of the Summer Games, using data from previous studies (n = 18). Results show that media coverage is far from being detrimental to women: They are either equitably represented (28.79%) or significantly overrepresented (46.97%). Indeed, all modalities combined, women are only underrepresented in 22.24% of cases. In most cases, these results significantly differ from those of previous research and stress the importance of and the need to take methodological precautions in this type of study.  相似文献