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Shar3i, The Podcast. Episode 5, with Fatima Essop.
No full textSitting in a virtual teahouse, Shar3i meets with scholars interested in Islamic law to discuss their research and teaching, but also their hobbies. It begins with the scholars participating in the 10th Islamic Legal Studies conference, convened by the International Society of Islamic Legal Studies (ISILS) in partnership with the Governance Programme at the Aga Khan University – Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC), held at the Aga Khan Centre in London, 19–21 May 2022.
In this episode, Gianluca Parolin and Serena Tolino meet Fatima Essop, University of Cape Town
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
The intersection between the Islamic law of inheritance and the South African law of succession
Full text linkWhile Muslims constitute 2% of South Africa's population, they formed an integral part of the South Africa's socio-political and historical landscape for over 350 years. Despite their historical marginalisation, in post-apartheid South Africa there are still no legislative provisions recognising Muslim personal law – even though the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (the Constitution) makes provision for such legislation to be enacted. Consequently, Muslims have been practicing their Islamic family laws of marriage, divorce, and inheritance within the private sphere, facilitated, and regulated by community-based Muslim judicial bodies, and their affiliated clergy (Shaykhs and Imāms). The thesis seeks to identify how Muslims in Western Cape include and implement Islamic inheritance laws in their wills and estates. A socio-legal methodology was adopted to study Islamic inheritance laws as they occur in practice. Empirical research was conducted in the Cape Town metropole area of the Western Cape as it has the largest, oldest, and most established Muslim community in South Africa. I conducted qualitative interviews with various role players, including an official at the main Muslim judicial body in the Western Cape, attorneys involved in the drafting of Muslims' wills and the winding up of Muslims' estates, and an Assistant Master of the High Court (responsible for the probate of all estates). I also conducted a document analysis of Islamic wills stored on record at the main Muslim judicial body in the Western Cape. The data extrapolated from my research identified various legal challenges encountered by people implementing the Islamic inheritance laws within the context of the existing common law and statutory laws of succession framework. These include the contravention of certain black letter common law rules of succession, for example, the prohibition against incorporation by reference and delegation of testamentary powers. In this regard, the thesis recommends that our courts should develop the common law to give expression to a Muslim testator's freedom of testation to devolve his or her estate in accordance with the constitutional guarantees of freedom of religion (s15) and right to property (s25). The thesis identifies potential conflicts that may arise between the provisions of Islamic inheritance law and the rights enshrined in the Constitution, such as the rights to equality (s 9) and dignity (s10). It hypothesises how the courts should balance various constitutional and common law rights in accordance with prevailing values of public policy. The thesis cautions the courts to be circumspect when striking down provisions in private wills so as not to infringe the constitutional rights to privacy (s14), dignity and property of a testator. Aside from the empirical research, the thesis relies on a broad spectrum of local and foreign literature in its discussion of both Islamic law and South African law. It provides an overview of the foundations of Islamic law generally, as well as Islamic laws of marriage, divorce, and inheritance. This overview contextualises the empirical research so that concrete suggestions for reform can be made. The thesis concludes with recommendations for the future implementation of Islamic inheritance laws by relevant role players
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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