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Volunteering as a Component of Social Work in The Area of Child Welfare
No full textThe subject of this study is the investigation of the volunteering activities on the basis of
the fundamental principles and universal ethical values of social work profession and
discipline, via the active volunteers in the area of child welfare carried out by nongovernmental
organizations. The main focus of the study is to see whether the social work
activities carried out by the volunteers coincide with the universal ethical principles and
values of the profession and to assess the basic knowledge needed by the volunteers to
carry out their activities according to the standards of practice. The study aims to describe
and examine this relation.
The survey is conducted in Istanbul with volunteers working in non-governmental
organizations carrying out activities in the area of child welfare. In accordance with the
problem and the aim of the survey, in terms of the scanning method with quantitative
data, a quantitative and descriptive design is preferred. By way of questionnaires designed
in this context, 106 non-governmental organizations were contacted, with positive
responses coming from 36 of them, 150 volunteers are reached.
According to the socio-demographic results of the study, it turns out that the volunteers
are generally composed of women, young and early middle-aged adults, well-educated
individuals, low-income earners, students, retirees, and private sector employees. Their
main motivations for volunteering are "(that it is) a necessity of humanistic ethics" and
"for feeling good". Among the expected returns of voluntary work "acquisition of
knowledge and skill" and "fulfilling a civic duty" are of top priority. In general,
volunteers' awareness on the principles and values of the social work profession and their
basic knowledge about the field are limited or partial.Bu araştırmanın konusu, çocuk refahı alanındaki sivil toplum örgütlerinde yürütülen
gönüllülük faaliyetlerinin, sosyal hizmet mesleği ve disiplini temel ilke ve evrensel
değerleri temelinde, faaliyetleri yürüten gönüllüler aracılığıyla incelenmesidir.
Gönüllülerce yürütülen sosyal hizmet faaliyetlerinin mesleğin evrensel etik ilke ve
değerleriyle ne düzeyde örtüştüğü, gönüllülerin faaliyetleri yürütürken ihtiyaç
duyabilecekleri temel bilgi düzeylerinin uygulama standartları bakımından ne yönde
olduğu, araştırmanın temel sorunsalını oluşturmaktadır. Bu araştırmayla söz konusu
ilişkinin irdelenmesi ve betimlenmesi amaçlanmıştır.
Araştırma, İstanbul ilinde, çocuk refahı alanında faaliyet yürüten sivil toplum
örgütlerinde çalışan gönüllü bireylerle yürütülmüştür. Araştırmanın problem ve amacına
uygun olarak nicel verilerle tarama yönteminde tanımlayıcı bir tasarım tercih edilmiştir.
Bu kapsamda hazırlanan görüşme formları aracılılığıyla 106 sivil toplum örgütüyle
bağlantıya geçilmiş, bunların 36’sından alınan olumlu geri dönüşlerle 150 gönüllü bireye
ulaşılmıştır.
Çalışmanın sosyo-demografik sonuçlarına göre, gönüllü bireylerin ağırlıklı olarak
kadınlar, genç ve orta yaşın başlarında yetişkinler, eğitim düzeyleri yüksek, gelir
düzeyleri düşük, öğrenciler, emekliler ve özel sektör çalışanlarından oluştuğu
anlaşılmaktadır. Gönüllülük motivasyonlarının başında “insani ahlakın bir gerekliliği” ve
“kendini iyi hissetme” motivasyonları gelmektedir. Gönüllü çalışmadan beklenilen
faydalardan “bilgi ve beceri edinimi” ve “vatandaşlık görevini yerine getirme” birincil
düzeyde gelmektedir. Gönüllülerin sosyal hizmet mesleği ilke ve değerlerine dair
farkındalıkları ve çalışma alanı hakkındaki temel bilgileri genel olarak sınırlı veya kısmigelişebilir
düzeydedir
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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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