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Racial discrimination and the evacuation of international armed conflict territory : the case of Russia and Ukraine
Get PDFMini Dissertation (LLM (International law))--University of Pretoria, 2023.On 24 February 2022, Russian armed forces, under the instructions of Vladimir Putin, launched a military operation into Ukraine, invading the neighbouring territory and launching full-scale ground operations in regions of Ukraine causing many to flee in a bid to evacuate. Reports also presented strong evidence that Ukrainian officials at border posts regulating evacuation seemingly gave preferential treatment to Europeans, particularly white Europeans, while not allowing black migrants access to trains and effectively not allowing them to evacuate.
The research seeks to address the treatment of black migrants in Ukraine during the war and outline the injustice not from a political stance but from the lens of International Humanitarian Law and the violation of the rules and the rights conferred by International Humanitarian Law. It is essential first to investigate if migrants are protected by International Humanitarian Law, and if they are privy to the right articulated in Article 35 of the Geneva Convention (IV) which affords protected persons the right to leave a territory party to conflict. Additionally, an inquiry will be made to determine whether the right includes protection against discrimination.Public LawLLM (International law)Unrestricte
An Investigation into the Effects of Debt Financing Schemes on the Operations of Small Scale Mines in Zimbabwe during the Epriod 2009 to 2013: A Case Study Of Small Scale Mines in The Bubi District: A Case Study of Small Scale Mine Sin the Bubi District, Matebeleland North
No full textThis study had three objectives the first being to establish the effects of the design of debt financing schemes on the operations of small scale mines. The second objective was to establish the extent to which the management of risk factors can influence the performance of debt financing in small scale mining operations. The third objective was to determine the contribution of the debt financing schemes towards capacity building within the small scale mining sector. The study population in this research included six banks in Bulawayo and 11 small scale mines from the Bubi district. Problems were encountered in obtaining registers of small scale miners from the miners’ association. The later mentioned issue posed problems in coming up with small scale miner study population but was solved by identifying active gold mining areas in the Bubi district which led to the location of three clusters with abundant small scale gold mining activity from which simple random sampling was used to locate mines using grid numbers from a surveyor general map of the Bubi district. A case study design was adopted that allowed use of concurrent researcher administered questionnaires and semi structured interviews with individual bankers and small scale miners that lasted one hour 15minutes. Data analysis used excel and content analysis and established that only 18% of miners had tertiary education and 64% of miners never received any mining related training. Further analysis data revealed that 73% of small scale mines were not merchandised and that 53% of small scale miners did not have any bank accounts. These observed trends posed challenges for small scale miners seeking loans from banks as they pose a risk in lending. Based on findings from this study the loan schemes did not have any impact on small scale mining operations as only one miner who is very senior member of the of the miners’ association obtained a loan during the period of 2009to 2013. Failure of the schemes was demonstrated in the research to be linked to various factors that include classification of small scale mines under Small to Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) which resulted in inappropriate design of lending to the SSM sector, lack of grass roots participation, the informality of small scale mining, corruption, lack of accountability and transparency and benefits capture by elites where the other factors that precipitated failure of loan scheme
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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