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The Covid-19 Pandemic in Italy: With Special Reference to the Effects on Women and Families
No full textIn Italy, the pandemic has been developing since February 2020 and was one of the first European countries to be violently affected by the contagions. The health and emergency responses included the closure of schools, childcare and non-essential activities and the increase Working From Home (WFH) with some specific and ambivalent effects on the social sphere.
WFH – an uncustomary practice in most organisations in Italy - became in fact mandatory for private companies and the public sector in March 2020. The Italian Government implemented different containment measures at the various phases of the pandemic to support families and workers. This has profoundly transformed people’s lives, both from the point of view of family and significant relationships, and at work, substantially modifying the relationship between these two significant areas.
In this chapter, we’ll first present an overview of the containment measures implemented to tackle the spreading of the virus and outline the main policies introduced by the Italian Government, highlighting their contents, aims, and underlying focus.
Then we will focus on consequences for women. The pandemic has highlighted ambivalences and risks concerning some phenomena regarding gender relations. In particular, the relationship between men and women is structured in terms of cohabitation and proximity in family relationships. Situations in which the social distancing on a collective level has had as a counterpart a closer closeness and co-presence on a personal level.
With the emergence of the Covid 19 emergency in the early 2020s, the media immediately started to highlight the likely future increase in cases of violence against women in the home due to the increased risk of lockdown and the difficulties for victims living with their abuser to report and seek support services.
A second theme is the impact on family and work responsibilities integration. Several studies in Italy, including a longitudinal survey conducted by the Authors, have shown how the emergency and containment measures impacted both personal/parental and work spheres, producing adverse effects on the specific group of working parents, especially women. Using a longitudinal approach, with data collected in three waves - April, July, and December 2020 – we assessed the consequences of Working From Home, showing that wellbeing decreased and work-life conflict increased with time and that working parents found the first lockdown particularly challenging
Strumenti e metodi per studiare le relazioni familiari
No full textIl contributo presenta diversi metodi e strumenti per studiare le relazioni familiari, che sono oggetti complessi con cui il ricercatore sociale deve fare i conti. Sono presentati alcuni strumenti finalizzati alla comprensione di alcune qualità /dimensioni che possono emergere dalle relazioni tra i membri di una famiglia: la solidarietà tra le generazioni, la relazione di cura, la riflessività nella relazione di coppia, la relazione tra i pari.The chapter presents different methods and tools for studying family relationships, which are complex objects that the social researcher must deal with. Some tools are presented aimed at understanding some qualities/dimensions that can emerge from the relationships between members of a family: solidarity between generations, the caring relationship, relational reflexivity in the couple's relationship, the relationship between peers
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
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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