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Digital health technologies and the realization of sexual reproductive health and rights for adolescent girls in Uganda
Get PDFMini Dissertation (Mphil (Sexual Reproductive Health Rights in Africa))--University of Pretoria, 2023.Background
By definition, digital technologies are ‘electronic tools, systems, devices and resources that generate, store or process data’. Digital health is ‘Electronic tools, systems, devices and resources that generate, store or process data’.(Victoria State University, 2019) Digital health includes mobile health apps(mhealth), electronic health records(EHRs), electronic medical records (EMRs), wearable devices, telehealth, and telemedicine.`
Sexual reproductive rights are enshrined in Article 14 of the Protocol to the African Charter on human and peoples` rights on the rights of women in Africa. Encompassed within these rights is the right to access correct information and services for all women. Digital technologies can be a potential avenue for the improvement of access to these services and the realization of these rights. However, digital technologies do not exist in a vacuum. There are a number of considerations that come into play when discussing whether they are a catalyst or risk to the full realization of adolescent girls` sexual reproductive health rights.
Research aims and questions
This research sought to find out the role that digital health technologies can play in supporting girls` exercise of their SRHR rights in Uganda. The study picked lessons from various mhealth apps being used in Uganda to improve SRHR in Uganda.
The aim of this research was to understand the role that digital health technologies can play in supporting girls` exercise of their SRHR in Uganda:
1. To identify how adolescent girls (12 to 17 years) use digital technologies in their exercise of their sexual reproductive health rights in Uganda.
2. To identify barriers in the utilization of digital health for adolescent girls` (12 to 17 years) in the exercise of their sexual reproductive health rights in Uganda
3. To understand the legal and policy environment around the use of digital technologies to improve access to sexual reproductive health information and services for adolescents (12 to 17 years) in Uganda.
The main research question was: What is the potential role of digital technologies in improving girls` exercise of their sexual reproductive health rights in Uganda? The sub questions were as follows;
1. How are digital technologies being used by adolescent girls (12 to 17 years) to exercise their sexual reproductive health rights in Uganda?
2. What barriers exist in utilizing digital health for the realization of sexual reproductive health rights for girls in Uganda?
3. What are the legal and policy instruments to support the use of digital technologies in Uganda?
Methodology;
This research used a qualitative study design assessing the impact of digital health technologies on SRHR of adolescent girls in Uganda. Data collection primarily involved desktop research using key word searches and reviewed literature published in the last 10 years. Based on this, the study assessed the level of use of digital health technologies in Uganda, whether they improve girls` experiences of SRHR and the existing policies and laws to support this. The study also utilized a conceptual framework benchmarked upon Isaac Bandura`s social cognitive theory which posits that a person`s behaviour is determined by the triadic relationship between personal, behavioral and environmental factors in determining a person’s behaviour.Centre for Human RightsMphil (Sexual Reproductive Health Rights in Africa)UnrestrictedFaculty of LawsSDG-03:Good heatlh and well-beingSDG-05:Gender equalit
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
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Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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