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Advocating for children, families, and nations : kinship care placements for Indigenous families in BC
No full textWhen children are unable to remain in the care of their parents, they have traditionally been placed in foster care with caregivers who are contracted by a child and family service agency to care for them. Foster care providers are usually not known to the child or their family prior to the placement. Beginning in the 1990s, child and family service agencies in Canada began to place children with kinship caregivers as an alternative to foster care. Kinship caregivers are members of a child’s extended family or community network and are generally selected by parents to provide care. In British Columbia, provincial child and family service legislation, the Child, Family, and Community Service Act, RSBC 1996, c46, requires kinship care placements to be prioritized relative to foster care placements. For Indigenous children, this priority is also reflected in the federal legislation, An Act respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis children, youth and families, SC 2019, c 24 (the “Federal Act”). Kinship care placements are a uniquely important placement option for Indigenous children given the long history of removing Indigenous children from their families that began with federal residential schools and continues through provincial child and family services. While the Federal Act is intended to make meaningful change for Indigenous families and, in particular, to address the over-representation of Indigenous children in government care, it is not sufficient on its own to improve access to kinship care placements for Indigenous families. The legislation does not address the systemic discrimination and access to justice barriers experienced by Indigenous families engaged with child and family service agencies and kinship care policy in BC is excessively narrow. Only by investing in child and family services designed to promote substantive equality for Indigenous children while addressing the conditions of systemic discrimination that their families experience can kinship care placements be meaningfully accessed in response to the ongoing harms caused to Indigenous families by child and family service interventions
Advocating for children, families, and nations : kinship care placements for Indigenous families in BC
No full textWhen children are unable to remain in the care of their parents, they have traditionally been placed in foster care with caregivers who are contracted by a child and family service agency to care for them. Foster care providers are usually not known to the child or their family prior to the placement. Beginning in the 1990s, child and family service agencies in Canada began to place children with kinship caregivers as an alternative to foster care. Kinship caregivers are members of a child’s extended family or community network and are generally selected by parents to provide care.
In British Columbia, provincial child and family service legislation, the Child, Family, and Community Service Act, RSBC 1996, c46, requires kinship care placements to be prioritized
relative to foster care placements. For Indigenous children, this priority is also reflected in the
federal legislation, An Act respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis children, youth and families, SC 2019, c 24 (the “Federal Act”). Kinship care placements are a uniquely important placement option for Indigenous children given the long history of removing Indigenous children from their families that began with federal residential schools and continues through provincial child and family services. While the Federal Act is intended to make meaningful change for Indigenous families and, in particular, to address the over-representation of Indigenous children in government care, it is not sufficient on its own to improve access to kinship care placements for Indigenous families. The legislation does not address the systemic discrimination and access to justice barriers experienced by Indigenous families engaged with child and family service agencies and kinship care policy in BC is excessively narrow. Only by investing in child and family services designed to promote substantive equality for Indigenous children while addressing the conditions of systemic discrimination that their families experience can kinship care placements be meaningfully accessed in response to the ongoing harms caused to Indigenous families by child and family service interventions.Law, Peter A. Allard School ofGraduat
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
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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