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Neglected Realities: How the Oversight of Systemic Racism Hindered the Efficacy of Section 7AA in Enhancing Outcomes for Tamariki Māori within Oranga Tamariki's Care
No full textThis paper delves into the connection between policy implementation, systemic racism and the outcomes of tamaiki Māori within Oranga Tamariki's care. The focus centres around s 7AA, a policy introduced to improve outcomes for Māori but failed due to the omission to consider systemic racism. Through an in-depth exploration of historical contexts, policy frameworks, sociocultural dynamics and case analysis, the paper highlights how the failure to address systemic racism resulted in the failure of the section to achieve its purpose.
Policies, especially those concerning marginalised groups, must appreciate the effects of systemic racism and actively negate these effects. The system requires culturally sensitive and equity-driven approaches to policy formation and implementation to rectify the deeply entrenched disparities within state care. The paper's case analysis provides examples of systemic racism guiding decisions within the courts. The cases reveal how biases against Māori customs result in the assumption that Western societal preferences and laws should be given more weight in the decision-making process. These cases provide a reminder of the urgency for systemic reform.
Ultimately, the essay underscores the pressing need for policies that are not only well-intentioned but also attuned to the systemic barriers that can undermine their transformative potential, especially within the context of marginalised communities like tamariki Māori in Oranga Tamariki's care
Access Denied: Barriers to Civil Legal Aid and Justice in New Zealand
No full textThis paper addresses the growing access to justice crisis in New Zealand with a particular focus on civil legal aid. Due to rising legal costs, the civil justice system is becoming largely inaccessible for a substantial portion of the population. Low-to- middle-income New Zealanders are disproportionately affected by the inaccessibility of the system and legal aid’s failures. These individuals are effectively excluded from seeking legal remedies. This exclusion impedes their ability to protect their rights and undermines the rule of law by fostering systemic inequalities. Despite being designed to bridge the ‘justice gap’, the civil legal aid system has been widely criticised for its stringent eligibility criteria, financial disincentives, and the shortage of legal aid lawyers. The shortcomings create substantial barriers to justice. As a result of the inaccessibility, many are turning to self-representation.
Part II examines access to justice in New Zealand, beginning with its historical roots and milestones. Part III explores the civil justice system’s significance, highlighting how society's perception of the system contributes to its inaccessibility. Part IV explores the purpose and structure of the civil legal aid system, highlighting the systemic barriers burdening the system. Part V identifies the three primary issues undermining the system: financial burden, eligibility constraints and the shortage of civil legal aid lawyers. This part then discusses the rise in self-representation as a direct consequence of these failures. The paper concludes by holding that the current system is insufficient to provide adequate access to justice
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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