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Amor e políticas sociais. O caso das autarquias
No full textComparing data in an international framework, the paper illustrates the condition of social welfare in Italy, especially for local government administrations. Recent studies show that social policies have only limited impact on contrast of inequalities and on prevention of vulnerability. On this base the paper individuates two lines of action for social work and social policies: interventions on the enlargement of accessibility, self-determination and freedom of choice (especially for professional aid), and interventions toward the enlargement of participation, and concerted planning among different actors. At the end the authors collect some best practices at local level, which are based on gratuity and surplus, with the aim of sharing experiences and improving love culture in political and organizational contexts
La relazione agapica nel servizio sociale
Get PDFIn questo contributo si dà conto degli esiti di una ricerca finalizzata a verificare la possibilità di rilevare tracce di agire agapico nel servizio sociale. In primo luogo, ci si è chiesti se siano riconoscibili, nel lavoro degli assistenti sociali, “azioni agapiche”, cioè azioni che producono eccedenza di dono senza averla messa in conto. Senza attesa né interesse particolare, azioni esperite di volta in volta nel presente, in assenza di progetto e tuttavia capaci di generare nuove realtà sui generis che permangono nel tempo. In secondo luogo, ci si è chiesti se, utilizzando il concetto euristico di “azioni agapiche” sia possibile coglierne la desiderabilità, la riproducibilità, la compatibilità con un approccio professionale. Si tratta di una ricerca di carattere esplorativo sul territorio nazionale con particolare attenzione ai servizi sociali di contrasto all’emarginazione e alla povertà. La scelta metodologica è stata di tipo qualitativo, per cogliere la prospettiva soggettiva degli attori e l’attribuzione di significato da loro conferito alle azioni agapiche e ai loro effetti, mediante interviste e focus group. Si è dunque proceduto dapprima alla somministrazione di interviste semi-strutturate che ripercorre vano, attraverso 11 quesiti, le dimensioni dell’agire agapico rilevabile attraverso l’evocazione di esperienze di relazione d’aiuto ritenute dagli intervistati o dalle intervistate “ben riuscite”, sono state/i ascoltate/i assistenti sociali e cittadini utenti di servizi di quattro diverse regioni italiane e una provincia autonoma. Dopo una prima analisi dei contenuti emersi dalle interviste, sono stati individuati ulteriori quattro quesititi-stimolo da proporre a due focus group formati ciascuno da 6 assistenti sociali provenienti da quattro regioni italiane
Questa prima esplorazione non ha portato a scoprire pratiche professionali e azioni innovative o decisamente alternative al social work già consolidato nei servizi, quanto piuttosto a riconoscere e a valorizzabile la dimensione eccedente e originale dell’aiuto che ciascun/a social worker può coltivare senza per questo tralasciare o contraddire i fondamenti teorici e la strumentazione tecnica propria e necessaria per la sua professionalità. Si è avuta evidenza del fatto che le persone e le loro interazioni, anche professionali, appaiono oltre ogni riduttività classificatoria, diagnostica e prescrittiva, si esprimono lungo itinerari esistenziali spesso lunghi e imprevedibili, aprono a nuovi azzardi creativi. Con questa consapevolezza le e gli assistenti sociali possono fare i conti, mettendo in campo non solo tecniche d’azione e assetti organizzativi più o meno controllati ma anche implicazioni esistenziali umane, prossime, rinnovate, condivisibili
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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