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Migrant population in local communities in Serbia
No full textPublication “Migrant population in local communities in Serbia” is produced within the project “Opening a dialogue in local communities between citizens and migrants on mutual tolerance and non-violence”, which was realized from November 2013 to December 2014 by Citizens’ Association for Combat against Trafficking in Human Beings and all Forms of Violence against Women Atina, in partnership with AsylumProtection Centre, and with the support of the European Union and the Office for Cooperation with Civil Society of the Government of the Republic of Serbia. The goal of the initiative was to develop effective models of response and reduce xenophobia and prejudice in local communities in Serbia. A goal formulated in such a way can also be understood in the light of creating an adequate mechanism for prevention of human trafficking and other forms of exploitation and violence which migrant population in Serbia is potentially exposed to. Project activities were focused on strengthening capacities of civil society organisations and professionals whose engagement is directed towards providing support to, and protection of, migrants. A general situation in which the research took place is characterized by an increase in the number of migrants and asylum seekers, and by the obligation of Serbia to build an asylum system that would effectively enable admission, accommodation, exercise of rights to financial assistance, access to healthcare and education, etc. It certainly entails a coordinated approach of different sectors and different levels of government, including increased demands set in front of actors at the local level. At the same time, fundamental reform processes have been taking place for years now, in all the sectors relevant both to assistance and integration of the migrants - social welfare sector, healthcare, education, the police - and which, among other things, include gender sensitivity, orientation towards preventive programmes, approach based on human rights, as well as increased responsibilities of local governments when it comes to care for particularly vulnerable groups. The specific research goals are defined as follows: i) Understanding international standards of protection, in the fields of migration and asylum issues, relevant to national context; ii) Understanding national legislative and regulatory frameworks in the field of migrations, with a focus on standards in protection of the rights of migrant population; iii) Gaining an insight into the understanding of the migrations and vulnerability of migrant by professionals; iv) Gaining an insight into characteristics of the response of local systems to migrations and the status of migrants, as well as into the quality of cooperation between different actors; v) Understanding challenges and obstacles in the implementation of existing regulations and in exercising the rights of migrants, and particularly vulnerable groups of migrants, in local communities, with a special focus on attitudes towards migrants; vi) Formulating recommendations for improvement of the response to the needs of migrants. As the local context in which migrants interact with citizens has not been a subject of special studies so far, it was particularly important to combine different sources of qualitative and, to a lesser extent, quantitative data. Thus, responding to the first specific goal we used primary documents of international and national system which regulate the area of migration and asylum. In answer to other specific research goals, the analysis is primarily made on the basis of data obtained from focus-group interviews with representatives of different systems that have the authority to provide assistance, or work on measures of integration of migrant population at the local level. Their insights - primary data obtained from interviews, were combined with the data provided by state agencies and institutions
Real-time Data Analytics Edge Computing Application for Industry 4.0: The Mahalanobis-Taguchi Approach
No full textIndustry 4.0 and its innovative technologies (e.g., Internet of Things, Cyber-Physical Systems, Cloud Computing, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence) represent great promise. Still, com-panies experience hardship when transforming from reactive to predictive manufacturing systems. The latter, driven by data science development, use predictive models to detect and solve production and maintenance issues before they happen. To eliminate the need for large and varied datasets for development of predictive models, in the present research we propose development of real-time predictive models based on small dataset without faulty data. This is achieved by using Mahalanobis-Taguchi system for fault detection in lack of fault data samples, and by using Edge Computing environment which provides higher re-sponsiveness, better security and decreased costs. Subsequently, two predictive models are developed, tested and compared for the case company from process industry (i.e. the vi-nyl-floor industry sector). Finally, recommendations for the industry are provided
Prefazione a: S. Moraca, E. Palazzi, Siamo tutti Greta. Le voci inascoltate del cambiamento climatico
No full textIntroduzione a raccolta di storie positive di resistenza al riscaldamento climatico
Individuazione di scaffold naturali stabilizzanti il DNA G-quadruplex mediante screening virtuale
No full textGoing Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Planetary health: an interdisciplinary perspective
No full textThis paper addresses the issue of planetary health under a multidisciplinary profile. It starts with defining the scope of planetary health, retracing its most salient historical points. It then reflects on the socio-political changes needed to achieve transformational change in society. The concepts of health literacy and environmental health literacy are explored as a useful means of disseminating and raising awareness about planetary health. Finally, a case study related to heart disease is explored to demonstrate why this approach is more necessary today than ever
Variations on the Author
No full text“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
No full textWe 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
The discovery of new G-quadruplex binders through a structure-based virtual screening approach
No full textDispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
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