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Child disability and siblings’ healthcare expenditures in a context of child fostering
No full textBien qu'il existe de nombreuses études évaluant les implications du handicap d'un enfant en termes de dépenses de santé pour l'enfant déficient, quasiment aucune de celles-ci n'évalue les externalités que celui-ci peut avoir sur les autres membres de la fratrie. L'objectif de ce travail est d'examiner l'effet du handicap d'un enfant sur les dépenses de santé de l'ensemble des enfants d'un ménages au Cameroun. Cette étude contribue à la littérature existante, premièrement en interrogeant l'existance d arbitrages au sein des ménages en matière d allocation des dépenses de santé en présence d un enfant déficient. Deuxièmement, elle prend en compte les configurations familiales propres au contexte de l'étude en faisant une distinction des enfants suivant le lien de filiation avec le chef du ménage (CM). Elle utilise à cette fin les données de l'enquête DHS-MICS de 2011. Ce qui permet d'aboutir au résultat que, dans l'ensemble, le handicap accroît significativement les dépenses mensuelles de santé des enfants qui en sont porteurs mais reste sans effet sur les dépenses de santé des autres enfants de la famille. Chez les enfants confiés, le fait d être handicapé accroît les dépenses de santé mensuelles de 684 Fcfa tandis que le handicap des enfants biologiques du CM est source de dépenses de santé de 138 Fcfa inférieures. Cela s'explique par le fait que les enfants handicapés qui demeurent dans leur famille biologique sont porteurs de handicap beaucoup moins sévère
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
Changes in women’s status and fertility behaviour in Sub- Saharan Africa (SSA): a decomposition analysis
No full textVery little is known about the contribution of changes in women’s status to fertility trends in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Using a linear decomposition technique, this study assessed changes in women’s status and the influence on fertility levels. Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data for 2-time periods with a minimum of 10 years interval for seven SSA countries constitute the data for this study. Results showed improved women’s status across the countries with increased proportion of women involved in decision making as well as women who do not justify wife beating. The decomposition models showed that, changes in fertility were due to changes in women’s status as well as changes in the background characteristics. The first model showed that the explained changes in fertility largely resulted from women’s perception of gender role attitudes compared to women’s involvement in household decision making. The second model also showed similar results. The study concludes that, women’s status is changing across SSA and that these changes tend to explain some of the changes in fertility across the countries. Other demographic and socio-economic characteristics also contribute substantially to fertility changes.Keywords: changing women’s status, decomposition, fertility behaviour, sub-Saharan Afric
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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