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Lessons from Africa: Combating the Twin Epidemics of Domestic Violence and HIV/AIDS
No full textDomestic violence and HIV/AIDS have proven a lethal combination, exacting a heavy toll on women's lives, particularly in Africa. In this article, partially based on a presentation made at the human rights networking zone at the conference, Tamar Ezer examines the interrelation between domestic violence and HIV/AIDS, provides an analysis of obligations under human rights law, and describes innovative programs that attempt to address the intersection of these twin epidemics. The author argues for holistic approaches that address the social, economic and legal dimensions of the problem
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
A Positive Right to Protection for Children
No full textConcepts that are useful in other areas of human rights break
down in the context of children. Because children are dependent
on adults for their development, they are an anomaly in the
liberal legal order, which views negative rights as implying fully
rational, autonomous individuals that can exercise free choice.
This Article argues for a positive right to protection for children,
rooted in dignity, by probing the problematic nature of the
positive/negative rights duality and exploring alternate legal
approaches to protecting children \u27s rights in both international
and comparative law. The adoption of positive rights for
children would help assure adequate protection, which the
current American legal regime, as typified by the case DeShaney
v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, fails to do
Promoting Public Health through Clinical Legal Education: Initiatives in South Africa, Thailand, and Ukraine
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Delivery of Legal Services to Children in the Boston Area
No full textIntroduction By 1990, families with children under age three became the single largest group living in poverty in the United States. With 25 percent of all such families living below the poverty line, 1 one fifth of all the nation's children are poor, and 40 percent of the poor in the United States are children. 2 There are also striking racial disparities among the poor - 50 percent of African-American and 40 percent of Latino children under the age of six live in poverty. 3 In Massachusetts, one of the wealthiest states in the nation, it is estimated that over 17 percent of children were poor in 1994, a 4 percent leap from figures in 1990. 4 Statistically the United States gives children less support than any other industrial country. 5 Although the United States is the wealthiest of all industrial democracies, poor children grow up in families with incomes that are lower than those of comparable families in any other industrialized country. Families of poor children in the United States - that is children in the poorest 20 percent - have less than two-thirds the income of comparable families in Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, and Norway. 6 In 1993, the American Bar Association produced a report recognizing that "our society is failing to protect its children" 7 and exploring ways in which the justice system may better serve those children. 8 A few years earlier, in 1987, the Massachusetts Bar Association and Governor's Office likewise issued a report recognizing ..
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