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EXPLORING CHALLENGES OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES IN THE ELECTORAL PROCESS IN SELECTED AREAS OF LUSAKA DISTRICT
Get PDFThesisThis Study investigated the challenges of persons with disabilities in the electoral process in
selected areas of Lusaka District. Specifically, the study investigated accessibility of polling
stations, electoral materials and adequacy of laws and policies that promote participation of
persons with disabilities in the electoral process as well as the impact of electoral conflicts. The
study has demonstrated that Zambia, like many countries in the world; persons with disabilities
are faced with several challenges occurring at individual or micro level as well as those
determined by the socio-economic and environmental or macro level in participating in the
electoraHowever, the most prominent of them all is inaccessible infrastructure such as polling stations.
Others which directly contribute to inaccessible infrastructure include inadequate tactile
materials for the visually impaired and other assistive devices as well as long distances to polling
stations. This study has also shown that electoral conflicts is also one of the challenges that
persons with disabilities face in their quest to participate in the electoral process at various levels
as well as negative perceptions that people without disabilities have towards those with
disabilities.
With regard to policies, the study has demonstrated that although laws and policies that are
aimed at promoting and mainstreaming disability issues in all sectors of development and
particularly the participation of persons with disabilities in the electoral process are in place, they
are not adequately implemented to address the many aspects and challenges faced by persons
with disabilities. In view of these findings, the study recommends for the implementation of the
provisions of the laws and policies and in particular the adequate implementation of laws and
policies on election and processes.
The study further recommends that facilities and processes put in place must not in any way
restrict the right to vote for any citizen. Voting procedures, facilities and materials should be
appropriate, accessible and easy to understand and use for all. There is also need to provide voter
education and information in accessible formats (for example, large print, electronic format for
voters that use screen-reading technology, written material, and easy-to-understand language for
persons with intellectual disabilities). The study also strongly recommends providing closed
captions and sign language interpreters on televised voter information announcements
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
Experiential narratives of persons with disabilities on Zambia’s electoral processes in Lusaka district.
Get PDFArticleThe aim of this research was to explore experiences of persons with disabilities in the electoral processes within Lusaka District. The study focuses on stories around electoral conflicts, accessibility of polling stations, electoral materials and adequacy of laws and policies that promote electoral and political participation of persons with disabilities. This study demonstrates that in Zambia, persons with disabilities experience challenges at an individual level. The study used semi structured interviews to collect data and a narrative approach coupled with some thematic analysis was used in the process of reviewing the responses from participants. Purposive sampling was used in the selection process of participants and a total of 19 individuals living with disabilities were involved in this study. The findings of this study indicate that participation in electoral processes by persons with disabilities are mainly hindered several issues but key among them is: inaccessible infrastructure, inadequate tactile materials for the visually impaired and other assistive devices and long distances to polling stations. This study has also shown that electoral conflicts is also one of the challenges that persons with disabilities face in their quest to participate in the electoral process at various levels as well as negative perceptions that people without disabilities have towards those with disabilities. With regard to policies, the study has demonstrated that although laws and policies that are aimed at promoting and mainstreaming disability issues in all sectors of development are in place, they fall short of addressing many aspects and challenges faced by persons with disabilities. There is also need to provide voter education and information in accessible formats (for example, large print, electronic format for voters that use screen-reading technology, written material, and easy-to-understand language for persons with intellectual disabilities). The study also strongly recommends providing closed captions and sign language interpreters on televised voter information announcements
Persons living with disabilities and Zambia's electoral processes: a study of Lusaka district.
No full textArticleThe study sought to explore issues persons living with disabilities in Zambia face in relation to the electoral processes in selected areas of Lusaka District. Specifically, the study aimed at identifying and understanding the consequences of electoral conflicts on electoral processes, accessibility of polling stations, electoral materials and adequacy of laws and policies that focus on participation of persons with disabilities in civic matters such as voting. The study was qualitative in nature and used a descriptive research design. Participants from various institutions, such as electoral commission of Zambia and NGOs working with people living with disabilities as well as in the area of elections, were purposively sampled and a total of 40 people took part in this study. Data was collected using semi-structured interviews. A thematic analytical approach was applied on the collected data. The study has demonstrated that in Zambia, like the rest of the world, persons with disabilities as citizens are faced with several challenges occurring at individual or micro level as well as those determined by the socio-economic environment or macro level in participating in the electoral process. However, the most prominent of them all is inaccessible infrastructure such as polling stations which includes other elements such as inadequate tactile materials for the visually impaired and other assistive devices, and long distances to polling stations. This study has also revealed that electoral conflicts, coupled with negative attitudes, is among the challenges that persons with disabilities face in their quest to participate in the electoral process. Further, the study demonstrates that although laws and policies that are aimed at promoting and mainstreaming disability issues in all sectors of development exist, they fall short of addressing many aspects and challenges faced by persons with disabilities. In view of these findings, the study concludes that there is need to provide voter education and information in accessible formats (for example, large print, electronic format for voters that use screen-reading technology, written material, and easy-to-understand language for persons with intellectual disabilities) and the provision of closed captions and sign language interpreters on televised voter information announcements
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
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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