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Evaluation of Washington State\u27s Senate Bill 5599 Concerning Runaway Transgender Youth
Get PDFThis paper utilizes a recognized policy analysis framework (Kraft & Furlong, 2017) to evaluate the objective effectiveness, efficiency, equitability, and ethical nature of Washington State’s 2023 Senate Bill 5599 (SB 5599, 2023) within contemporary social, political, cultural, and geographic contexts. Senate Bill 5599 was signed into law by Governor Inslee on May 9th, 2023, and became effective July 23rd, 2023. The bill established an exception to the reporting requirements the state and its agencies must follow when accepting runaway youth into shelters. The exception established is that the state is no longer required to report to parents that it has accepted their children, if the child is seeking or undergoing gender affirming care. This law raises questions as to when it is acceptable for the state to intervene between parent and child, what rights apply to children who are not yet rationally capable or informed, and to what degree rights should be applied positively or negatively in certain contexts. This paper will illuminate the contextual ambiguity of effectiveness, efficiency, equitability, and ethics related to SB 5599, while also identifying the ways in which SB 5599 should be changed to conform to these criteria within Washington State’s social contexts and the policy framework. Key suggested changes to SB 5599 include age criteria, clear identification of intent to offer protected health services, and a vote of the people
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
The Influence of Non-Engineered Municipal Landfills on Groundwater Chemistry and Quality in Bloemfontein, South Africa
Get PDFArticleThis study assessed the groundwater quality around two municipal solid waste landfill
sites, in the city of Bloemfontein, Free State Province, South Africa. The two landfill sites are located
in two contrasting geological terrains, with both lacking some basic facilities found in a welldesigned
landfill. A total of eight groundwater samples were collected from pollution monitoring
boreholes near the two landfill sites, with five samples representing the northern landfill site and
three samples representing the southern landfill site. The samples were collected in the autumn and
winter seasons to assess any possible seasonal variations. They were analysed for physicochemical
(pH, electrical conductivity (EC), total dissolve solids (TDS), chemical oxygen demand (COD) and
total organic carbon (TOC)) and microbiological parameters (Escherichia coli, total coliform). The
results of the analysis showed that the waters from both landfills were generally dominated by Ca,
Mg, SO4, and HCO3 ions. Some of the major anions and cations in the water samples were above
the South African National Standard (SANS241:2015) and World Health Organisation (WHO)
permissible limits for drinking water. Majority of the boreholes had total dissolved solids and
electrical conductivity values exceeding the SANS 241:2015 and WHO permissible limits. Piper
trilinear plots for the two landfill sites showed that Ca(Mg)HCO3 water type predominates, but
Ca(Mg)SO4 and Ca(Mg)Cl were also found. These water types were further confirmed with
expanded Durov diagrams, indicating that that the boreholes represented a water type that is
seldom found which is undergoing ion exchange, typical of sulphate contamination. From the SAR
diagrams, boreholes in the northern landfill site had a high salinity hazard with only one borehole
in the southern landfill site having a high salinity hazard. The geology was found to play a
significant role in the distribution of contaminants into the groundwater systems in the study area.
The study concluded that the northern landfill site had a poorer water quality in comparison to the
southern landfill site based on the analysed physicochemical parameters. However, the southern
landfill site showed significant microbial contamination, due to the elevated amount of E. coli and
total coliform concentrations. The high permeability of the weathered dolerites in the northern
landfill site might have enabled the percolation of contaminants into the groundwater resulting in
the poorer water quality
Skill theory and language teaching
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5599.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)IVth Neuchâtel Colloquium on theoretical models in applied linguistics [1975
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
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
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