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The Psychosocial Needs Of Socially Isolated Children.
Full text linkThe study aims to explore the psychosocial needs of socially isolated children in a children home. This study uses a qualitative approach where socially isolated children
were interviewed face-toface and their behaviour was observed. The study findings have reported the children’s psychosocial needs involve the development of self-concept,attachment, and social interactions. In addressing the case of child social isolation, several stakeholders which
include the Department of Social Welfare, nongovernmental organisations and educational institutions
dealing with child services will have direct access to provide the needed intervention.
The study suggests that in order to address the children’s psychosocial needs, a framework which
incorporates elements of selfconceptualization of children,strengthening child-parent relationships and enhancing social interaction is imperative.Keywords: child social isolation, children, psychosocial
needs, and Malaysia
Prosedur perlaksanaan dan penilaian latihan praktikum Ijazah Sarjana Muda Pengurusan Kerja Sosial (BSWM) Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM)
Full text linkLatihan praktikum merupakan antara komponen utama dalam kurikulum pengajian Ijazah Sarjana Muda Pengurusan Kerja Sosial (BSWM) yang ditawarkan oleh Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM). Matlamat latihan ini diadakan adalah untuk memberikan pendedahan kepada pelajar terhadap elemen praktis dan keperluan-keperluan berkaitan kemahiran kerja sosial dalam konteks sebenar sebelum mereka menempuh alam kerjaya. Dalam usaha melahirkan graduan yang lengkap dengan kemahiran dan ilmu pengetahuan berkaitan profesion kerja sosial, komponen praktikum dilihat sebagai mewakili suatu gagasan penilaian yang kritikal bagi mengukur kemampuan pelajar dalam mengaplikasikan ilmu teoritikal dan praktis secara menyeluruh dalam konteks amalan yang sebenar. Artikel ini memberikan gambaran menyeluruh tentang latihan praktikum di bawah program BSWM. Ia memperihalkan prosedur perlaksanaan dan proses penilaian pelajar, disamping membincangkan tentang rasional serta asas yang diguna pakai untuk melaksanakan dan menilai program latihan ini
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
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
The Meltdown of the Agricultural Legacy and the Disintegration of the Rural Social Fabric in Malaysia
Full text linkAgriculture used to be a way of life for most nations and is still is for many nations in the world today. It is in the agricultural sector that the battle for long-term development will won or lost, to quote Myrdal. It cannot be denied that sector plays a key role in the process of economic development. When Malaysia embarked on its economic structural transformation policy to leap frog into an industrialised nation by 2020, the agricultural sector was unintentionally neglected. It was put on the backseat of development and later efforts to revise and reinvent the sector were unconvincing. Along the way, the rural social fabric of the nation disintegrated. The rural-urban migration left the agricultural sector helpless with aged farmers to farm, while the more able younger population look for better opportunities in the urban centres. The Lewis-Fei -Ranis (LFR) economic model described the economic transformation persuasively. It and many other similar economic models however, neglected the social implications of this phenomenon and its impact on the lives of the rural population and the later impacts on newer trend of labour mobility – the exodus of the migrant labour from neighbouring nations to the country sides of Malaysia. This paper, based on our many previous studies done in 2006 to 2008, seeks to explore and analyse this phenomenon by answering the following questions: (1) How much has main agricultural outputs dropped due to the rural-urban migration, (2) What aspects and how much of this agricultural legacy and the existing social fabric have been impacted by the migration, (3) What are some of the immediate interventions that could be introduced to reverse some of the trends
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