Abstract:This article draws on research conducted as part of a European project on the changing terminology used to conceptualise habitual drug, alcohol or tobacco use. We wanted to find out what language was utilised in Italy, Poland, Austria and the UK and how those concepts had changed since the mid-nineteenth century. We intended to make use of digitised journals for key word searches to enable comparisons to be made across countries and across time. Nothing, however, was straightforward. Few countries had digitise… Show more
“…Even such seemingly uncomplicated types of questions have confronted historians with the need to always triangulate digital results with textual analysis and contextualization (Aiello and Simeone 2019). As medical historians Alex Mold and Virginia Berridge concluded in a comparative study of the use of terms related to addiction, "focusing only on terms and not the context in which they existed both on the page and more broadly risks missing the bigger picture" (Mold and Berridge 2019). Moreover, in research such as ours, that goes beyond the scope of a mere conceptual history and aims to understand the role of religion or ideology in discussions between doctors, more sophisticated forms of textual analysis are needed.…”
In this paper, we present a multidisciplinary project, IMPRESS, which combines the digitization of three major 19th-century Belgian medical journals with a historical research project on the role of ideology in 19th-century Belgian medicine. We focus on the methodological choices that were made and discuss the extent to which text mining has allowed to identify and evaluate expressions of ideology in a corpus of scientific texts. In laying bare the difficulties and outcomes of both the digitization and the digital analysis (with a focus on the use of the program “AntConc”) we intend to contribute to current debate on the gains and limitations of digital methods in the humanities. We conclude that, while acknowledging the many interpretative interventions in preparing searches and qualifying outcomes, the use of the tool has allowed to reach more sophisticated research results than the exclusive use of non-digital methods would have.
“…Even such seemingly uncomplicated types of questions have confronted historians with the need to always triangulate digital results with textual analysis and contextualization (Aiello and Simeone 2019). As medical historians Alex Mold and Virginia Berridge concluded in a comparative study of the use of terms related to addiction, "focusing only on terms and not the context in which they existed both on the page and more broadly risks missing the bigger picture" (Mold and Berridge 2019). Moreover, in research such as ours, that goes beyond the scope of a mere conceptual history and aims to understand the role of religion or ideology in discussions between doctors, more sophisticated forms of textual analysis are needed.…”
In this paper, we present a multidisciplinary project, IMPRESS, which combines the digitization of three major 19th-century Belgian medical journals with a historical research project on the role of ideology in 19th-century Belgian medicine. We focus on the methodological choices that were made and discuss the extent to which text mining has allowed to identify and evaluate expressions of ideology in a corpus of scientific texts. In laying bare the difficulties and outcomes of both the digitization and the digital analysis (with a focus on the use of the program “AntConc”) we intend to contribute to current debate on the gains and limitations of digital methods in the humanities. We conclude that, while acknowledging the many interpretative interventions in preparing searches and qualifying outcomes, the use of the tool has allowed to reach more sophisticated research results than the exclusive use of non-digital methods would have.
Over the decades, it has been assumed that emotional intelligence plays an important role in getting success in human life. Many researches proved and justified that emotional intelligence has remained a significant relationship to behavioural aspects of teachers as well as prospective teachers. Measurement of EI can best be understood in the light of the pioneering works of the EI model. There are three basic models of emotional intelligence as: the Mayer Model, Bar-On Model and Goleman Model. The relationship between teaching and emotional intelligence and lack of any EI measuring tools for prospective teachers necessitated the development of EI scale. So, the objective of the paper was to develop an EI scale for prospective teachers. Study considered common subscales of Goleman’s, Bar-On’s model and teachers’ quality for generating its EI construct (with 9 sub-scale). Researchers studied definitions of each of the dimensions and created 184 concerned items which were finally reduced to 50 items in final draft. In the first phase, drafts of the scale were administered on 200 prospective teachers and in the final phase 100 prospective teachers of eastern Uttar Pradesh were participated in the study. Content validity (CVR>=0.8), inter-rater reliability (0.788 substantial Fleiss’ kappa reliability) and Construct validity (using CFA where CFI & RMSEA were found 0.957 and 0.048 as acceptable fit) were established. Reliability analysis was done using Cronbach’s alpha (0.926) and split-half reliability (0.843) index. Norms were set as above average EI having score higher than 215.7, below average EI having score lower than 177.05 and average EI having score in between 215.7 and 177.05.
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