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A critique of the SADC region’s regulatory response measures to the Covid-19 pandemic, paying special attention to travel restriction measures and their effect on food security
No full textMagister Legum - LLMThe transition in the economy around the globe has led many countries to pursue integration at various levels. The importance of regional integration is highly noted in various parts of the world, with the most successful countries reaping the benefits of such cooperation.
Regional integration bodies such as the European Union (EU) are notable examples of successful integration efforts. Consequently, there has been much backing from the African community for regional assimilation since the attainment of independence from the European colonial powers.1 Regional integration is seen as a rational response to challenges faced by a continent with many small national markets and non-coastal countrie
THE REALISATION OF MEDIA FREEDOM AS A TOOL TO COMBAT CORRUPTION IN ZIMBABWE: LESSONS FROM SOUTH AFRICA
Get PDFCorruption is rife in South Africa and Zimbabwe. The media plays an important role in exposing corruption. In South Africa, the media exposed a multi-billion-dollar corruption saga in 2016 involving the former president and his business associates which the media dubbed “state capture”. Most of the state-owned entities were captured and served as vehicles for grand corruption. Today, South Africa has yet to recover from the saga exposed in 2016. In fact, the incumbent South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has also been under investigation for money laundering and corruption while simultaneously reaffirming his ruling party’s fight against corruption. The media continues to keep the executive on its toes and should be praised for their efforts. South Africa’s neighbour, Zimbabwe, has a different outlook. While corruption in Zimbabwe is even worse than in South Africa, the media does not have the similar freedom to expose corruption. There exists a constant fear of retaliation for blowing the whistle on corrupt activities. It is common for journalists to be detained for speaking out. Media laws should be adopted to affirm media freedom. Instead they have often been adopted, especially in Zimbabwe, to demonise the media. This paper essentially analyses the importance of the media in exposing corruption in Zimbabwe and how their role can be protected and enhanced. This paper makes an important contribution towards the protection of media freedom in light of strengthening anti-corruption efforts in South Africa and Zimbabwe. It is one of the first studies to examine the achievements and shortcomings of media freedom in relation to corruption in South Africa and Zimbabwe. The article will commence by examining conceptual aspects regarding corruption and the role of the media. It will then examine the regulatory framework governing the rights of media in both jurisdictions. What follows next is an analysis of several case studies amplifying the problems faced by the media in Zimbabwe. This is followed by analysing the lessons Zimbabwe can learn from South Africa\u27s approach to media freedom. The article will conclude by providing several recommendations
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
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
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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