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Sakuntala Narasimhan. Empowering Women: An Alternative Strategy from Rural India. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1999. Indian Rupees 195.00. (Paperback). 236pp.
No full textThe positive role of women in economic development cannot be
understated; those that are educated and properly empowered can act as
catalysts in the development process. This book is about how to empower
women so that they can become independent and self-sustaining actors in
development. The conventional wisdom is that womens’ empowerment depends
on following a simple strategy—alleviate poverty by spending large
amounts of money. Having followed this strategy in the past the author
feels that it has been far from successful. Monetary inputs by itself is
not a sufficient condition to assist women in improving their status.
The author puts forward an alternate view that the reasons why women are
disadvantaged in India, despite fifty years of development, is due to
their ignorance, powerlessness and vulnerability. This is particularly
so for those women who belong to the Scheduled Castes (Harijans) and
Scheduled Tribes (Girijans or “mountain people”)
Going 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
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
Rama V. Baru. Private Health Care in India: Social Characteristics and Trends. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1998. Hardback. Indian Rs 295.00. 184 pages.
No full textThe provision of health care has been recognised as a
fundamental human right. Consequently, developed countries incur heavy
expenditures in the provision of health care facilities to their
citizens. For example, Canada’s public expenditure on health as a
percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is 6.9 percent, Norway’s is
6.6 percent, the USA’s is 6.5 percent, and Japan’s is 5.6 percent. On
the other end of the scale are the developing countries such as Niger,
which spends 1.6 percent of its GDP on health, Mozambique 1 percent,
Haiti 1.3 percent, and Senegal 1.2 percent. In South Asia, Pakistan
spends 0.8 percent and India 0.7 percent of their GDP, respectively, on
health provision
Madhumita Puri and George Abraham (eds.). Handbook of Inclusive Education for Educators, Administrators, and Planners: Within Walls, Without Boundaries. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2004. 309 pages. Paperback. Indian Rs 450.00.
No full textThe book is a manual aimed at educators, administrators, and
planners involved in dealing with disabled children. Although education
is considered to be a basic human right, yet according to UNICEF some
113 million children have no access to education. For disabled children,
“only 1 in every 50 children with disability has access to education”
(p. 18). The manual has been organised in three parts. Part I is
basically a bird’s eye view of Inclusive Education. The term is defined
on page 25 of the book in the following words: “Inclusive education is
concerned with removing all barriers to learning, and with the
participation of all learners vulnerable to exclusion and
marginalisation. It is a strategic approach designed to facilitate
learning success for all children. It addresses the common goals of
decreasing and overcoming all exclusion from the human right to
education, at least at the elementary level, and enhancing access,
participation, and learning success in quality basic education for
all”.
Jan-Peter Hartung and Helmut Reifeld (eds). Islamic Education, Diversity and National Identity: Dini Madaris in India Post-9/11. New Delhi: Sage Publications. 2005. 331 pages. Indian Rs 380.00. Paperback.
No full textThis book deals with a current subject, particularly
reflecting the fallout from the 9/11 events in the USA. For years dini
madaris (religious schools) have contributed to Muslim educational
development in India as well as across the border in Pakistan. As a
consequence of 9/11, these religious schools have come under the
spotlight with respect to their curriculum and whether they are turning
out fanatics bent on destabilising the existing political and economic
order, domestically as well as internationally. This has become all the
more important because in the western world-view these religious schools
encourage an extremely narrow frame of mind. Such schools, according to
the western world-view, promote violence (i.e., terrorism), have hidden
sources of funding, operate secretly, and impact significantly on the
political front
Dispelling 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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