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Local Humanitarianism and Organisational Complexities:Implementation of Safeguarding Measures
Full text linkOver the last decade, several Arab countries have been experiencing long-term political turmoil, civil wars, and ongoing conflicts. As a result, there has been an unprecedented surge in local humanitarianism, exemplified by the expansion of local humanitarian organisations, increased resource allocation for humanitarian action, and a global focus on humanitarian actors’ accountability for affected people. This chapter analyses the complex accountability relationships that influence local responses to humanitarian crises by focusing on implementing safeguarding measures among civil society organisations (CSOs) in five Arab countries: Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Palestine. The main research question this chapter addresses is: How have local humanitarian organisations evolved in understanding, adopting, integrating, and implementing safeguarding measures in the five Arab countries? This chapter argues that there is a need to reconsider measures adopted by local humanitarian organisations to navigate the accountability demands of different loci and ensure the enforcement of safeguarding policies on the long run
Local Humanitarianism and Organisational Complexities: Implementation of Safeguarding Measures among CSOs in Arab Countries
Full text linkOver the last decade, several Arab countries have been experiencing long-term political turmoil, civil wars, and ongoing conflicts. As a result, there has been an unprecedented surge in local humanitarianism, exemplified by the expansion of local humanitarian organisations, increased resource allocation for humanitarian action, and a global focus on humanitarian actors’ accountability for affected people. This chapter analyses the complex accountability relationships that influence local responses to humanitarian crises by focusing on implementing safeguarding measures among civil society organisations (CSOs) in five Arab countries: Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Palestine. The main research question this chapter addresses is: How have local humanitarian organisations evolved in understanding, adopting, integrating, and implementing safeguarding measures in the five Arab countries? This chapter argues that there is a need to reconsider measures adopted by local humanitarian organisations to navigate the accountability demands of different loci and ensure the enforcement of safeguarding policies on the long run
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
Reinvention of nationalism and the moral panic against foreign aid in Egypt
No full textAmid a growing trend of shrinking space for civil society and rapid shifts in the social, economic and political landscape in the MENA region, it becomes crucial to understand how authoritarian and semi-authoritarian regimes control and consolidate power over the civil society sphere during transition phases. Since 2013, Egyptian civil society has been portrayed as an enemy for both the state and the people.After the 25 January 2011 revolution in Egypt, the issue of foreign funds for Egyptian civil society organisations (CSOs) became the main headline in any policy or public debate regarding CSO legislation in Egypt. In late 2011 the Egyptian security forces broke into the headquarters of many international and national organisations. This sparked what later became known as the foreign fund case.This chapter examines: how moral panic concerning foreign funds, and the new framing of nationalism, affected the space for civil society organisations to operate in Egypt. To do so, the authors will conduct a discourse analysis of the press coverage of the famous foreign funding case ‘known as Case 173’ in two of the major newspapers and two of the most watched TV channels in Egypt. The chapter will cover the period between 2013 and 2018. In addition to the empirical research, the authors will use a comprehensive literature review of the legal texts and previous scholarly work on intersections of media, NGOs, foreign funding and civil society work in Egypt
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
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