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Youth Justice Conferences versus Children's Court: a comparison of cost-effectiveness
Full text linkThis paper finds that the Youth Justice Conferences scheme is more cost-effective than the Children’s Court.
The paper compares the cost-effectiveness of Youth Justice Conferences (YJCs) to matters eligible for YJCs but dealt with in the Children’s Court.
Method: The costs for Police, Legal Aid, Children’s Court, Juvenile Justice YJC administration and Juvenile Justice administration of court orders were separately estimated using a combination of top-down and bottom-up costing methods. These were combined with data from matched samples of young people who were to be dealt with by a YJC and young people who could have been dealt with by a YJC but instead were dealt with in the Children’s Court in 2007 in order to estimate average costs per person for each process.
Results: The average cost of a YJC was estimated to be about 18 per cent less than the average cost of a comparable matter dealt with in the Children’s Court. This result was robust under variation of most assumptions (or combinations of assumptions). However, if marginal costs for the Children’s Court and costs for administering Children’s Court orders are low, then it may be more efficient to deal with an additional young person by court rather than by YJC.
Conclusion: When viewed in totality, the YJC scheme is more cost-effective than the Children’s Court
Complete genome sequence of Mycoplasma capricolum subsp. capripneumoniae strain 9231-Abomsa
Full text linkMycoplasma capricolum subsp. capripneumoniae is the etiological agent of contagious caprine pleuropneumonia. We report here the complete and annotated genome sequence of M. capricolum subsp. capripneumoniae strain 9231-Abomsa
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
Defining domestic work as a worst form of child labor in the context of R.A. 9231
No full textChild domestic work is a distinctive and integral feature of Philippine society deeply entrenched in the history and culture of the Filipino people. However child domestic work is often overlooked and neglected not only by the government but by our society as well. They are often neglected and failed to be recognized. Over the years, several agreements, codes, declarations and laws have been enacted to protect the rights and welfare of the children, particularly of working children. Despite all the laws adopted, child labor remains a reality in society especially in the domestic work settings.
Republic Act 9231, otherwise known as An Act Providing for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labor and Affording Stronger Protection for the Working Child provides for special protection to children from all forms of abuse, neglect, cruelty exploitation and discrimination, and other conditions prejudicial to their development including child labor and its worst forms. In addition, Section 3 of this Act includes a list of the worst forms of child labor which are considered as illegal. Under Republic Act 9231, child domestic work was not specifically defined as one of the Worst form of Child Labor considering that it can be a worst form by looking at the circumstances and conditions. Moreover, the uncertainty of the definition of domestic work and lack of protection of the Philippine laws lead to insufficient protection of R.A. 9231.
This study will look into the provision of R.A. 9231, Section 3, in relation to child domestic workers. It will look at the nature and condition of child domestic work if it should be considered as one of the worst forms of child labor. The study will be supported by applicable Philippine laws and International Conventions for the recognition of the proper role and place of children in the society. The role of the government agencies such as DOLE and DSWD in regulating child domestic workers will also be assessed.
As established in the study, although there are provisions on the protection, only few deals specifically with child domestic workers and address the nature and condition of their work. As a group, these children are not seen as vulnerable the worst forms of child labor. Hence, there is a need of consolidated piece of legislation for the full protection of child domestic workers wherein legal definition is given to domestic work, domestic workers wherein legal definition is given to domestic work, domestic workers and child domestic workers
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
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