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OTHER TITLE: Child Welfare System Task Force final report
No full textAt head of page O-1: Child Welfare System Task Force final report.
"January 2019."Committee Reports to the Kansas Legislature ; 2019."House Sub. for SB 126 (2017) directs the Secretary for Children and Families to establish a Child Welfare System Task Force to study the child welfare system. The bill directs the Task Force to convene working groups to study the general administration of child welfare by the Kansas Department for Children and Families (DCF), protective services, family preservation, reintegration, foster care, and permanency placement. Additionally, the Task Force and each working group are directed to study the following topics: 1)--The level of oversight and supervision by DCF over each entity that contracts with DCF to provide reintegration, foster care, and adoption services; 2)-- The duties, responsibilities, and contributions of state agencies, nongovernmental entities,and service providers that provide child welfare services in the State of Kansas; 3)-- The level of access to child welfare services, including, but not limited to, health and mental health services and community based services in the State of Kansas; 4)-- The increasing number of children in the child welfare system and contributing factors; 5)-- The licensing standards for case managers working in the child welfare system; and 6)-- Any other topic the Child Welfare System Task Force or a working group deems necessary or appropriate."Members -- Charge -- Conclusions and recommendations -- Background -- Organization -- Work groups -- Task Force Meetings -- Appendix A: Child Welfare System Task Force working groups report [summary] -- Appendix B: Child Welfare System working groups reports report to the Child Welfare System Task Force [Full report of the three working groups: General Administration of Child Welfare and Foster Care (Working Group A); Protective Services and Family Preservation (Working Group B); and Reintegration and Permanency Placement (Working Group C)
Department for Children and Families responses to Legislative Post Audit quarterly follow-up process [2017]
No full textfrom: Kristen Rottinghaus, principal auditor ; to: Members, Child Welfare System Task Force.
"Date: August 10, 2017.""At the August 4, 2017 meeting, members [of the Child Welfare System Task Force] asked to receive a copy of the Department for Children and Families' (DCF) cumulative responses to our quarterly follow-up process for the three-part series of foster care performance audits, Foster Care and Adoption in Kansas: Reviewing Various Issues Related to the State's Foster Care and Adoption System. We have attached two tables for your review. The first table shows DCF's quarterly responses to Part 1 of the audit, which was released in July 2016. The second table shows DCF's quarterly response to Part 3 of the audit, which was released in April 2017. Part 2 of the audit did not inc1ude any recommendations and therefore did not require DCF to submit follow-up information. Once a recommendation has been completed, LP A does not require further follow-up information. Completed recommendations are shown as grey boxes in the attached tables."
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
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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