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Croyances, perceptions et attitudes des populations face à la pandémie du Covid-19 en Afrique de l’Ouest: une étude qualitative à Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
No full textThis paper explores beliefs and perceptions surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as response activities, in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. Since December 2019, Côte d'Ivoire, as well as the rest of the world, is facing a Covid-19 pandemic. To respond to this situation, the Ivorian government has implemented several population measures, such as physical distancing, hand washing, containment and mask wearing, to limit the spread of the disease in the country. The adherence of the population to the public health recommendations will ensure the effectiveness of these measures in limiting the spread of the virus. People's attitudes towards a contagious disease are often influenced by their beliefs and perceptions of the disease in question, as well as their trust in the authorities. The article is based on a qualitative study including interviews conducted with approximately 50 people from different social groups across the city of Abidjan, during the initial months of the Covid-19 pandemic in Côte d'Ivoire. In addition, information on Covid-19 in the local and international media has been collected to deepen our reflection. The results show that, while some people adhere to the health measures and recommendations proposed by the authorities and apply them, others are more skeptical and even deny the existence of Covid-19. The paper further shows that skepticism negatively affects people’s different attitudes and behaviors regarding compliance with social and public health measures. By exploring the reality in the ground, it also shows that knowing about preventive measures does not automatically mean accepting and implementing them.Cet article explore les croyances et perceptions des populations face à la pandémie du Covid-19 et les activités de la riposte à Abidjan. Depuis décembre 2019, le monde entier est confronté à une pandémie de Covid-19. Pour répondre à cette pandémie à l’instar de tous les gouvernements du monde, le gouvernement ivoirien a mis en œuvre plusieurs mesures populationnelles, comme la distanciation physique, le lavage des mains, le confinement et le port du masque, etc., afin de limiter la propagation de cette maladie dans le pays. L’adhésion de la population aux recommandations de la santé publique est garante de l’efficacité de ces mesures pour limiter la propagation du virus. Les attitudes des populations face à une affection dépendent très souvent de leurs croyances et perceptions de la pathologie en question ainsi que leur confiance dans les autorités. Il s’appuie sur une étude qualitative menée auprès d’une cinquantaine de personne de différents groupes sociaux à travers la ville d’Abidjan dans les mois initiaux du Covid-19 en Côte d’Ivoire. En outre, des informations sur le Covid-19 dans les médias locaux et internationaux ont été recueillies pour approfondir notre réflexion. Les résultats montrent que, si certaines personnes adhèrent aux mesures et recommandations sanitaires proposées par les autorités et les appliquent, d'autres sont plus sceptiques et nient même l'existence du Covid-19. L'article montre également que le scepticisme affecte négativement les différentes attitudes et comportements des personnes concernant le respect des mesures sociales et de santé publique. En outre, en explorant la réalité sur le terrain l’article montre aussi que connaître les mesures préventives ne signifie pas automatiquement les accepter ni les mettre en œuvre
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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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