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Is marriage a haven or a risk for women in Zimbabwe in the era of HIV/AIDS: Interrogating women`s reproductive rights in marriage
No full textThe study sought to establish to what extent civil and registered customary marriages in Zimbabwe served as havens or risks against HIV and AIDS. It interrogates the susceptibility of married women to socio-cultural practices and factors that violate their sexual and reproductive rights leaving them with no sexual autonomy. A sample of 160 respondents (males and females) aged between 20 and 60 were drawn to participate in this study from Dzivarasekwa and Harare Central Business District. The individual interviews and focus groups were carried out to measure the levels and extent of the problem of predisposition of HIV/AIDS infection to married women. Key informants interviews were conducted to assess the nature of the problem confronting married women and to try to find solutions to remedy such violations.
This study uses a combination of mainly qualitative and a few quantitative methods of data collection. Using a number of gender-focused methodologies, and Women’s Law Approach, the writer collected and scrutinized an extensive range of data which disclosed that while marriage to some extent was an important factor in curbing the spread of HIV/AIDS it was also a risk factor. It revealed that power dynamics, gender roles and cultural practices have taken away the married women`s capacity to realise and utilise their sexual and reproductive rights. It was established that whereas married women did not have sexual autonomy their unmarried counterparts were in a better place to negotiate safe sex which made them comparatively safer in terms of exposure to HIV/AIDS. Therefore whereas a married woman might not sometimes be able to avoid contracting HIV/AIDS from the matrimonial bed a diligent unmarried woman can avoid the same by safeguarding the exercise of her sexual and reproductive rights.
The study recommends that since it is the implementation of the law that is problematic then the solution should be advocating for the reproductive and sexual rights of married women so as to empower them with the capacity to bargain for safe sex which they are currently lacking and in so doing enabling them to make decisions that reduces their expose to the risk of HIV/AIDS infection.,Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affair
Is Marriage a Haven or a Risk for Women in Zimbabwe in the Era of HIV/AIDS: Interrogating Women’s Reproductive Rights in Marriage
No full textThe study sought to establish to what extent civil and registered customary marriages in
Zimbabwe served as havens or risks against HIV and AIDS. It interrogates the susceptibility
of married women to socio-cultural practices and factors that violate their sexual and
reproductive rights leaving them with no sexual autonomy. A sample of 160 respondents
(males and females) aged between 20 and 60 were drawn to participate in this study from
Dzivarasekwa and Harare Central Business District. The individual interviews and focus
groups were carried out to measure the levels and extent of the problem of predisposition of
HIV/AIDS infection to married women. Key informants interviews were conducted to assess
the nature of the problem confronting married women and to try to find solutions to remedy
such violations.
This study uses a combination of mainly qualitative and a few quantitative methods of data
collection. Using a number of gender-focused methodologies, and Women’s Law Approach,
the writer collected and scrutinized an extensive range of data which disclosed that while
marriage to some extent was an important factor in curbing the spread of HIV/AIDS it was
also a risk factor. It revealed that power dynamics, gender roles and cultural practices have
taken away the married women`s capacity to realise and utilise their sexual and reproductive
rights. It was established that whereas married women did not have sexual autonomy their
unmarried counterparts were in a better place to negotiate safe sex which made them
comparatively safer in terms of exposure to HIV/AIDS. Therefore whereas a married woman
might not sometimes be able to avoid contracting HIV/AIDS from the matrimonial bed a
diligent unmarried woman can avoid the same by safeguarding the exercise of her sexual and
reproductive rights.
The study recommends that since it is the implementation of the law that is problematic then
the solution should be advocating for the reproductive and sexual rights of married women so
as to empower them with the capacity to bargain for safe sex which they are currently lacking
and in so doing enabling them to make decisions that reduces their expose to the risk of
HIV/AIDS infection
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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