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Pouvoir, territorialité et conflictualité au Grand Kasaï (République démocratique du Congo)
Get PDFL’article aborde la question de la conflictualité liée à la difficile articulation des pouvoirs d’Etat et coutumier traditionnel au Grand Kasaï. En dépit de ses énormes potentialités naturelles, cet espace situé au centre de la République démocratique du Congo connaît depuis près de soixante ans une succession de conflits et une restructuration territoriale, conséquences de la fragilité et de l’instabilité de ce vaste Etat d’Afrique centrale. Les enjeux de contrôle de pouvoir par différents acteurs, les crises et conflits liés tant à l’exploitation des ressources naturelles, particulièrement le diamant, ainsi que les mécanismes d’appropriation foncière sont analysés en mettant en évidence les éléments du contexte socioéconomique tels que d’importants mouvements de population, un déclin de l’agriculture, une urbanisation galopante, un enclavement et un isolement causés par la dégradation des transports terrestres et un difficile accès aux services de base. La conséquence en est un état de délabrement généralisé des infrastructures, des équipements socio-collectifs et une destruction de la diversité naturelle plongeant la population dans un sentiment d’abandon et de frustration.This article tackles the issue of the conflicts bound to the difficult articulation between State power and customary laws in Large Kasaï. In spite of its enormous natural potentiality, this space located at the centre of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has experienced for nearly sixty years a succession of conflicts and a territorial restructuring, as a consequence of the fragility and instability of this huge State of Central Africa. The stakes of power control by various actors, the crisis and conflicts related to the exploitation of the natural resources, particularly diamond, as well as the mechanisms of land appropriation are analysed by highlighting the elements of the socio-economic context such as significant movements of population, a rapid urbanization, an enclosing and insulation caused by the deterioration of surface transports and a difficult access to basic services. All this results in a widespread dilapidated state of the infrastructures, public facilities and the destruction of natural diversity plunging the population in a feeling of neglect and frustration
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
Épreuve de l'identité culturelle avec l'alimentation dans le contexte migratoire
Get PDFDeux cent quatre participants, allochtones de Kinshasa, du district de Tshangu en RDC, ont répondu à un questionnaire destiné à éprouver la stabilité de l’identité culturelle traditionnelle ou ethnique à travers la préférence et la consommation des aliments de base ethniques. L'intérêt est la valorisation de la politique de création d’emplois à partir des vocations agraires territoriales et celle de réhabilitation des routes de desserte agricole. La comparaison des pourcentages et le test de Khi-carré ont permis de tester quatre hypothèses. Les résultats obtenus sont mitigés. En effet, les participants préfèrent les aliments de base ethniques aux extra-ethniques principalement pour les raisons culturelles. Ils consomment les aliments de base ethniques régulièrement et actuellement pour les raisons culturelles et nutritionnelles et les aliments extra-ethniques pour les raisons hédonistes ou sensorielles. Par ailleurs, ils entretiennent actuellement un syncrétisme alimentaire, un pendulisme alimentaire pour les raisons personnelles et socio-économiques. La préférence et la consommation régulière et actuelle des aliments de base ethniques confirment le statut de marqueur de l’identité culturelle ou ethnique de l’alimentation. Cependant, ni la préférence des aliments de base ethniques ni leur consommation actuelle ni leur consommation régulière n’ont subi l’effet des variables genre, âge, état-civil et niveau d’études
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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