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Attaining Gender Equality in Post-Conflict Society: the Inexorable Course to Sustainable Peace-Building
Get PDFEthnic, political, historical, economic, social and gender tensions within countries, and the quest for dominance by state and non-state actors are subsumed in a quantum of deleterious consequences. Despite, rivalry among global superpowers, there is no evidence of a decline in regional disputes or in organised violence by ethnic groups, religious fundamentalists, banditry, secessionist movements or terrorists. These internal conflicts are made more complex and lethal by modern technology and communications, international collaborations and the proliferation of cheap, but destructive weapons in the hands of young people. Contemporary conflict portends aggravated vulnerability of civilians, defined along gender and age strands, where women, girls, children and the aged are the most abused, raped, widowed, discriminated, debased and dehumanised. They are despondent, subjugated, traumatised and denied access to social good, status, education, health and equal rights - the fundamentals of equitable and just society. While data are derivatives of qualitative method, strands of feminist and social action perspectives offered latitude for theoretical analysis. It is alluded in the paper that peace-building in the post-conflict era would be elusive and ephemeral if gender equality is not actualised through social investment, gender intersectionality, masculinity connectivity, criminalisation of gender discrimination and violence
Attaining Gender Equality in Post-Conflict Society: the Inexorable Course to Sustainable Peace-Building
Get PDFEthnic, political, historical, economic, social and gender tensions within countries, and the quest for dominance by state and non-state actors are subsumed in a quantum of deleterious consequences. Despite, rivalry among global superpowers, there is no evidence of a decline in regional disputes or in organised violence by ethnic groups, religious fundamentalists, banditry, secessionist movements or terrorists. These internal conflicts are made more complex and lethal by modern technology and communications, international collaborations and the proliferation of cheap, but destructive weapons in the hands of young people. Contemporary conflict portends aggravated vulnerability of civilians, defined along gender and age strands, where women, girls, children and the aged are the most abused, raped, widowed, discriminated, debased and dehumanised. They are despondent, subjugated, traumatised and denied access to social good, status, education, health and equal rights - the fundamentals of equitable and just society. While data are derivatives of qualitative method, strands of feminist and social action perspectives offered latitude for theoretical analysis. It is alluded in the paper that peace-building in the post-conflict era would be elusive and ephemeral if gender equality is not actualised through social investment, gender intersectionality, masculinity connectivity, criminalisation of gender discrimination and violence
Cybercrimes and Economic Crisis in Nigeria: Essentialising Containment Beyond the Rhetoric
Get PDFJust as the emergence of Internet and ICT innovates, instigates and transforms all facets of life and sectors of the society; so also, is the tenacity, tempo and geometric penetration of cybercrimes. The devastating consequences including economic doldrum, low gross domestic product (GDP), inclement investment environment, loss of billions and confidence through e-fraud, e-scams, data interception, and system and data interference, among others beckon decisive inhibition. However, slow and ill-implementation of legislation, lack of virtual evidence, knowledge of investigation and parochialism has continued to define most actions to protect the cyberspace. The paper qualitatively through social survey and multi-stage sampling methods examines parameters of cybercrimes as one of the enablers of economic crisis in Nigeria, using Akwa Ibom State as a specific study site. The discourse is shaped within theoretical frame of Situational Crime Prevention (SCP), since its strands are descriptive of the ravaging circumstances of cybercrimes, cybercriminals, and the obtuse and ductile tactics toward containment of cybercrimes. The result indicates that cybercrimes have strangulated the economy, and that its prevalence and spate annihilate germane quest for economic recovery. Therefore, utilisation of data surveillance technologies, SCP intervention techniques, cybercrimes’ awareness and education, intelligence-policing, faithful legislation and implementation are recommended
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 TRADITIONAL POWER STRUCTURE OF AFRICAN SOCIETIES: A STUDY OF ANNANG TRADITIONAL SOCIETY
No full text<p><span>The traditional African institutions and rulers are the repository and intermediaries of societal tradition, culture and religion, whose powers swathe the communities. However, the traditional power relations and institutions are threatened by royal abuses, pervasive power struggles, dictatorial leadership, government control and democratisation. This enunciated the study with three hundred respondents constituting the sample size, while questionnaire, simple percentage, Chi-square and Phi- coefficient were the data collection tool and statistical techniques. The study equally anchored on Structuration theory. It was found that there is a relationship between area of decision-making and the development, and that leadership categories are affected by frequent power tussle. Based on these findings, open-leadership structure, participatory governance is recommended.</span></p>
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
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