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Perceptions and experiences of shelter managers in working with homeless persons during the Covid19 pandemic
No full textExamining the challenges faced by school social workers in selected township schools in City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality An NPO perspective
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Perceptions and experiences of shelter managers in working with the homeless persons during the COVID-19 pandemic
No full textAbstract Aim In South Africa, homelessness is still a complex problem impacted by a number of social, political, and economic variables. Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic caused disruptions and impacted people all around the world, particularly vulnerable groups like the homeless, who ought to have received care during the epidemic. During the pandemic, the homeless received much-needed temporary shelters. The purpose of this study was to find out how shelter managers felt about working with homeless people during the COVID-19 outbreak. Method This qualitative study purposively sampled 15 homeless shelter managers, data was collected face-to-face using a semi-structured interview guide and analysed thematically. Results Findings revealed four main themes: ‘causes of homelessness, ‘’current support structures’, challenges in shelters during COVID-19’ and ‘benefits of shelters’. Conclusion Addressing homelessness requires a comprehensive approach that addresses its root causes while providing immediate support and services to those in need. Furthermore, understanding the causes of and responses of shelter managers to the pandemic is vital to informing the activities undertaken by homeless service providers during the pandemic and will help prepare for future disasters and pandemics. Collaborative efforts involving government agencies, non-profit organizations (NPOs), community stakeholders, and experienced individuals are essential to develop sustainable solutions and create inclusive communities where everyone has access to safe and stable shelter and housing
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
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