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The Eviction Geography of New Orleans: An Empirical Study to Further Housing Justice
No full textLow-income tenants in the U.S. have weak bargaining power as well as limited housing and mobility options in the housing market. With no enforceable right to housing, tenants are stuck-quite literally in the case of uninhabitable property - in unsafe and unhealthy living conditions. Poverty and economic instability make it challenging for tenants either to leave or to force repairs to substandard rental units. The author completed an empirical study of eviction cases in New Orleans in order to quantify the problem of evictions, learn more about where evictions occur throughout the municipality, and better understand who is evicted. The author\u27s study was anchored by her experience representing tenants through her law clinic teaching practice. The author embarked on the empirical study as a participatory research endeavor in collaboration with a local community group whose organizational mission centers on affordable housing. Using the court\u27s responses to the author\u27s public records requests and incollaboration with two social scientists the author mapped the eviction geography of New Orleans through quantitative analysis of eviction cases in the Parish of Orleans ( Orleans )². The Court data did not itself contain demographic information linked to evictions. Rather, geography, understood from U.S. Census Bureau block group information on race, gender, and poverty, serve as a proxy for that data. The data set of cases that resulted in Judgments of Eviction covers the bulk of Orleans from March 2015 through January 2017
The Eviction Geography of New Orleans: An Empirical Study to Further Housing Justice
No full textLow-income tenants in the U.S. have weak bargaining power as well as limited housing and mobility options in the housing market. With no enforceable right to housing, tenants are stuck-quite literally in the case of uninhabitable property - in unsafe and unhealthy living conditions. Poverty and economic instability make it challenging for tenants either to leave or to force repairs to substandard rental units. The author completed an empirical study of eviction cases in New Orleans in order to quantify the problem of evictions, learn more about where evictions occur throughout the municipality, and better understand who is evicted. The author\u27s study was anchored by her experience representing tenants through her law clinic teaching practice. The author embarked on the empirical study as a participatory research endeavor in collaboration with a local community group whose organizational mission centers on affordable housing. Using the court\u27s responses to the author\u27s public records requests and incollaboration with two social scientists the author mapped the eviction geography of New Orleans through quantitative analysis of eviction cases in the Parish of Orleans ( Orleans )². The Court data did not itself contain demographic information linked to evictions. Rather, geography, understood from U.S. Census Bureau block group information on race, gender, and poverty, serve as a proxy for that data. The data set of cases that resulted in Judgments of Eviction covers the bulk of Orleans from March 2015 through January 2017
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 Pro Bono Requirement in Incubator Programs: A Reflection on Structuring Pro Bono Work for Program Attorneys
Full text linkAppropriate 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
50 Years After the “War on Poverty”: Evaluating the Justice Gap in the Post-Disaster Context
No full textThe Legal Services Corporation (“LSC”), formed as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty, was one of many initiatives aimed at providing low-income individuals with equal access to justice. Today, the increasing number of people living in poverty, coupled with decreased funding for legal services, has resulted in a significant justice gap in the provision of civil legal services. Poor people do not have the kind of access to legal services that was envisioned when the LSC was created. This justice gap is no more apparent than in the post-disaster context. For example, following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, legal services programs in Louisiana could not handle as much as ninety percent of the legal needs of low-income individuals. To more meaningfully provide legal services post-disaster, we must re-examine the entire system in which post-disaster legal services are provided
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
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