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An analysis of the human rights and gender consequences of the new South African constitution and bill of rights with regard to the recognition and implementation of Muslim personal law (MPL)
No full textDoctor Legum - LLDPrior to the new constitutional dispensation in South Africa all women had identities of
race and gender imposed on them. With a new dispensation in place Muslim women,
however, still have to deal with identities attributed to them by religion and culture.
The author of this dissertation is herself a Muslim woman who has struggled to
reconcile her public life and "new found" equality with these identities. She found it
difficult to believe that Islam, the self same religion which had brought seventh-century
Arabian society out of its degenerating stupor, could be used to justify behaviour by
conservative religious authorities ( Ulama) in South Africa which deny women equality. 1
Earlier research2 partly allayed her suspicions and fears but did not lay them to rest
completely. The fact that South Africa was to face a human rights revolution which
would ultimately affect the lives of all her citizens for the better, sparked off a desire
within the author to establish whether it is not possible to reconcile the undeniable and
unalterable spirit of equality within Islam with the implementation of a reformed
Muslim Personal Law (MPL)3 so that women can enjoy the best of both worlds.
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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
The role of democratic rights and obligations of citizens in enhancing public service delivery in Uganda
No full textThesis (Ph. D. (Public Administration and Management)--University of the Free State, 2014Irrespective of a two decade-plus long prevalence of several democratic participatory frameworks, and the excellent legal and policy frameworks for citizen participation in Uganda, exercising of democratic rights and obligations of citizens in Uganda is far from reality and the services rendered to the citizens are still poor. As an example of this ill reflection of reality, the electorate is still prone to hand-outs and is easily manipulated into participation. The general awareness level on citizens’ rights and responsibilities has swung out of balance in Uganda — for instance, based on the findings, the right to participate in decision-making and, subsequently, the right to demand for accountability on the quality of services delivered are not commonly known among the citizens in Uganda. The majority of the citizens are not aware of the government initiatives in place supporting citizen participation. Likewise, nepotism and corruption is still increasingly staining politics and government institutions that are supposed to form the basis for participation. Moreover, to a certain extent, there is censorship of the press, and no separation of powers. These not only attesting to the statement that participatory initiatives in Uganda are more like wish lists than substantive statements that are guaranteed in practice, but also raising questions such as: · How relevant have the democratic citizen participatory initiatives been to the actual involvement and participation of citizens in prioritising, planning, and decision-making on issues affecting citizens? · What is the citizen’s knowledge and understanding of the democratic citizen participatory initiatives? · Have the democratic citizen participatory initiatives promoted citizen participation that is strong in order to demand quality service delivery? Thus, to try and answer the above questions, this research aims to establish whether the quality of public services relates to the exercising of democratic rights and obligations of citizens by citizens in Uganda. Specifically focusing on: · documenting the concepts ‘democracy’, ‘democratic rights’, ‘citizen responsibility’ and ‘democratic consolidation’; · realising whether and how fundamental notions of democratic citizenship and democratic participation either undermine or advance public service delivery; · exploring the current state of democratic rights and obligations of citizens in Uganda; · conducting empirical research on the realities and practices regarding the exercise of democratic rights and obligation of citizens as well as assess its implications towards service delivery in Uganda; and · proposing a comprehensive participatory framework for exercising democratic rights and obligations of citizens to improve public service delivery in Uganda. The study employs a mixed-method research approach, conducted on a representative sample of 110 participants, and data collected through extensive literature review. The same literature supported by qualitative interviewing of key officials employed by Kampala City Council Authority (KCCA), as well as a quantitative questionnaire survey based on three variables used to measure the exercise of democratic rights and obligations. Thus based on the findings of the qualitative and quantitative research methods at the univariate and multivariate levels of analysis, the study proposes comprehensive participatory framework for exercising democratic rights and obligations of citizens to improve public service delivery in Uganda
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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