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Arenas for Gendering Social Innovation and Marginalized Women’s Collectives
No full textIn this chapter, the authors present two cases from different corners of the world: Neighborhood Mothers in Denmark and Design and Dignity in India. They provide a starting point for a discussion of the ways and formats of people-centered social innovation that sustain women’s agency, empowerment and intersecting identities, based on old and new cultures, livelihoods and peer learning. Design and Dignity is a craft and marketing social enterprise aimed at social and economic empowerment of marginalized women by selling an ethnic range of products. The authors display and analyze our two cases applying a thematic grid that identifies the needs and drivers in a people, societal and community context, their institutional and organizational structures, their innovation and implementation strategies and their potentials and challenges. Social innovation is increasingly seen as an alternative development pathway for trying to address contemporary societal challenges with newer strategies.</p
People-Centered Social Innovation:An Emerging Paradigm with Global Potential
No full textOur time is definitely complex and increasingly marked by the clash and conflict of interests and policies. Growing social and economic inequality and the concentration of wealth marks our time as dangerous and unstable. A people-centered approach to social innovation rests on a number of important assumptions. First, social innovation was never a question of how to use the capitalist firm or the conventional market model as a blueprint for serving the needs of people. Second, the people-centered approach to social innovation adopted in this volume takes an important point of departure in Karl Polanyi’s understanding of economic activity which, he warned, could never be reduced to the virtues of markets. A people-centered orientation to social innovation is thus one powerful way to address the multidimensional challenges that confront policy makers, activists and marginalized groups worldwide. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this boo
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
No full text“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
No full textWe 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
No full textWe 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
sj-docx-1-ggm-10.1177_23337214231194965 – Supplemental material for Association Between Cognitive Performance and Nutritional Status: Analysis From LASI-DAD
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-ggm-10.1177_23337214231194965 for Association Between Cognitive Performance and Nutritional Status: Analysis From LASI-DAD by Manjusha Bhagwasia, Abhijith R. Rao, Joyita Banerjee, Swati Bajpai, Aruna V. Raman, Arunanshu Talukdar, Arvind Jain, Chhaya Rajguru, Lalit Sankhe, Debabrata Goswami, Ganapathy Sankaralingam Shanthi, Govind Kumar, Mathew Varghese, Minakshi Dhar, Monica Gupta, Parvaiz A-Koul, Rashmi Ranjan Mohanty, Sankha Shubhra Chakrabarti, Sathyanarayana Raju Yadati, Sharmistha Dey and Aparajit Ballav Dey in Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine</p
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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