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Een pilotstudy naar de effectiviteit
Full text linkOp 15 november 1996 werd de strafmaat voor het delict mensensmokkel (art. 197a WSr) verhoogd. Omdat uit criminologisch onderzoek bekend is dat de effectiviteit van een dergelijke maatregel veelal moeilijk vast te stellen is heeft het IPIT een pilotstudy uitgevoerd naar de zin van een diepgaand effectiviteitsonderzoek. Hierbij werden de volgende onderzoeksvragen aan de orde gesteld: in hoeverre is de omvang van mensensmokkelactiviteiten verminderd na de wetswijziging? Welke invloed heeft de strafmaatverhoging gehad op de effectiviteit van opsporing en vervolging? In hoeverre had de verhoging van de strafmaat, direct of via effecten op de opsporing en vervolging van mensenhandel, een afschrikkende werking op potentiële mensensmokkelaars? Heeft de verhoging van de strafmaatpositieve en/of negatieve neveneffecten met zich meegebracht? Zo ja, welke? Tot de geraadpleegde bronnen behoren de eerste gehoren die de Immigratie en Naturalisatiedienst asielzoekers afneemt; bestanden uit de bedrijfsprocessen van het Openbaar Ministerie; dossiers van afgesloten opsporingsonderzoeken naar mensensmokkel en interviews met officieren van justitie en teamleiders van opsporingsonderzoeken alsmede een beperkt aantal gedetineerde mensensmokkelaars. Naast aanbevelingen voor beleid worden ook aanbevelingen voor verder onderzoek gedaan
Development and evaluation of an influenza pandemic intensive care unit triage protocol
No full textObjectives: To develop an influenza pandemic ICU triage (iPIT) protocol that excludes patients with the highest and lowest predicted mortality rates, and to determine the increase in ICU bed availability that would result. Design and setting: Post-hoc analysis of a study evaluating two triage protocols, designed to determine which patients should be excluded from access to ICU resources during an influenza pandemic. ICU mortality rates were determined for the individual triage criteria in the protocols and included criteria based on the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score. Criteria resulting in mortality rates outside the 25th and 75th percentiles were used as exclusion criteria in a new iPIT-1 protocol. The SOFA threshold component was modified further and reported as iPIT-2 and iPIT-3. Main outcome measure: Increase in ICU bed availability. Results: The 25th and 75th percentiles for ICU mortality were 8.3% and 35.2%, respectively. Applying the iPIT-1 protocol resulted in an increase in ICU bed availability at admission of 71.7% +0.6%. Decreasing the lower SOFA score exclusion criteria to =s 6 (iPIT-2) and =s 4 (iPIT-3) resulted in an increase in ICU bed availability at admission of 66.9% + 0.6% and 59.4 + 0.7%, respectively (P< 0.001). Conclusion: The iPIT protocol excludes patients with the lowest and highest ICU mortality, and provides increases in ICU bed availability. Adjusting the lower SOFA score exclusion limit provides a method of escalation or de-escalation to cope with demand
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
Methoden, bronnen, mogelijkheden en beperkingen
Full text linkHet onderzoeksproject beoogde om helderheid te verkrijgen in de vragen: 1. Welke soorten onderzoek kunnen in de praktijk bij politie en justitie worden onderscheiden? 2. Welke bronnen zijn voor deze onderzoeken feitelijk toegankelijk en hoe worden ze gebruikt? 3. Welke beperkingen zijn er aan de toegankelijkheid van de bronnen opgelegd? 4. Hoe functioneert het verkennend onderzoek, zoals bedoeld met de invoering van de wet BOB (art 126 gg Sv) in de praktijk? In het onderzoek zijn 20 onderzoeken van verschillend karakter betrokken
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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