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Dal locale al globale e ritorno : nuovi paradigmi e nuovi modelli di azione
No full textDal locale al globale e ritorno. Nuovi paradigmi e nuovi modelli di azione è un testo che si inserisce nel più ampio dibattito su un altro e diverso dualismo sociologico tra i tanti: quello tra globale e locale; il testo si inserisce, inoltre, nel dibattito sui modelli alternativi di sviluppo che caratterizza le società contemporanee. Negli ultimi decenni in particole, queste tematiche sono considerate sempre di più sia a livello teorico che empirico. Per questo motivo il volume, tenendo in buon conto le implicazioni reciproche tra teoria e ricerca, raccoglie alcuni percorsi di riflessione teorica e di indagine sociale come esito di un seminario internazionale sul tema svoltosi, presso l’Università degli Studi del Molise, evento cui hanno partecipato studiosi italiani e brasiliani provenienti da diverse Università e Istituzioni. Il volume, raccogliendo le relazioni presentate, dà piena attivazione ai paradigmi, ai concetti e alle metodologie della scienza sociologica, riservando una specifica attenzione al processo di globalizzazione che lascia sorprendentemente lo spazio per la rinascita e la riaffermazione di diversi concetti sociologici propri degli autori classici. Primo fra tutti, quello di comunità che nella sua accezione di opportunità, di crescita e risorsa su cui investire e a cui accedere, cerca di definire il “posto” dell’attore sociale (locale) nel processo di sviluppo della società
Guerra e pace: una questione di genere
No full textPur facendone da sempre parte la guerra è definibile come una deviazione della civiltà. In questo lavoro, si sostiene che i sistemi di valore patriarcali sono quelli a cui il potere politico si rifà per poter giustificare ogni possibile forma di violenza e per poter elaborare le sue strategie di esclusione (sociale) dei soggetti più deboli, come le donne, esclusione anche dal “gioco” della stessa guerra. No- nostante i venti anni trascorsi dalla Risoluzione UN 1325, molto lavoro resta da fare per affermare il ruolo delle donne come agenti di pace
Welfare, persone anziane e donne migranti: il fil rouge della fragilità nelle trame della narrazione. Un'esperienza di ricerca nella regione Molise
No full textThe number of old people in Italy continues to grow and, in 25 years, may almost double from 7 to 12 million. Simultaneously, in this segment of the population, the share of dependent people and the demand for care and assistance may also significantly increase. Despite the National Plan for non-self-sufficiency 2022-2024, the results of which are not yet to be examined, given the weakening of the welfare system and its public network of services, the problems related to the longevity process are managed through models of home care provided privately by family caregivers, who frequently migrate from other countries and are subjected to sophisticated forms of exploitation. Given this scenario, this article analyzes the potential vulnerabilities of the welfare system and some of its main areas related to the social and health needs of older and migrant people involved in private care work. Drawing on a qualitative study conducted in Molise, within the Age-it project, we investigated whether, and to what extent, an ad hoc co-created training process with family caregivers could improve the quality of life of people involved in the care process, as well as of society writ large
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
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