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Diversity Impact on Vaccine Equity (DIVE) in Sri Lanka November 2021
No full textThis submission includes English, Sinhala (එන්නත්කරණ සමානාත්මතාවය කෙරෙහි වාර්ගික විවිධත්වයේ බලපෑම: නොවැම්බර් 2021), and Tamil (
இலங்கையில் சமத்துவமாக தடுப்பூசி வழங்குதல் சார்ந்த பல்வேறுபட்ட தாக்கங்கள்) versions of the bulletin.Covid-19 has shed light on ongoing disparities in vaccine access and confidence among different ethnic groups worldwide. Verité Research conducted a study to analyze social media content shared on Covid-19 vaccine confidence, uptake, and access among three ethnic groups in Sri Lanka—Sinhalese, Tamils and Muslims. This study was financially supported by Minority Rights Group International. The purpose of the study was to identify how social media can be used to understand the degree of vaccine confidence and uptake among different ethnic groups, and their access to vaccines.
The study highlights five key findings:
Most online conversations on Covid-19 vaccination across the sample of Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim social media users related to confidence in the Covid-19 vaccine. However, there were varying degrees of concern among these ethnic groups in relation to their confidence in vaccines;
Ethnicity was a statistically significant factor affecting the degree of Covid-19 vaccine confidence in Sri Lanka. Muslim (75 per cent) and Tamil (67 per cent) social media users were more likely to have low confidence or no confidence in Covid-19 vaccines in comparison to Sinhala (58 per cent) social media users in the sample;
From among the reasons for low vaccine confidence, vaccine safety was the main concern that emerged from online conversations monitored on the Covid-19 vaccine;
Most concerns on vaccine safety emerged from Muslim social media users (46 per cent); and
Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim social media users showed a higher degree of confidence in the Pfizer-BioNTech and/or Moderna vaccines than in the Sinopharm vaccine.
The findings of this study are specific to the social media monitoring that Verité Research conducted on Facebook and Twitter from 1 January 2021 to 31 October 2021. Verité Research analysed a sample of 1,276 Facebook comments and tweets (including replies to tweets) with respect to the sentiment expressed on:
Covid-19 vaccine confidence;
Reservations towards vaccines;
Access to vaccines; and
Distrust in health and/or other government authorities to administer vaccines and distrust in the vaccine-related information disseminated by these actors.This bulletin was published in the context of Minority Right's Group (MRG) International Diversity: Impact on Vaccine Equality (DIVE) programme (2021-2022)
Inaction and Impunity: Incidents of Religious Violence Targeting Christians, Muslims and Hindus (2015-2019)
No full text45p. The study is based on information provided by the National Christian Evangelical Alliance of Sri Lanka (NCEASL). It was compiled by Media Team of Verité Research. Mahoshadi Peiris was the lead researcher and author of the study. The team comprised of Mihindu Perera and Jonathan Cruse.Ethno-religious violence in Sri Lanka is a chronic and systemic problem that has continued despite successive changes in government. This study examines the key trends of incidents of violence faced by minority Christian, Muslim and Hindu groups in Sri Lanka between 2015 and 2019.
In 2015, the National Christian Evangelical Alliance of Sri Lanka and Verité Research released Silent Suppression: Restrictions on Religious Freedoms of Christians 1994-2004, a 20-year trend analysis report on ethno-religious violence.
This study build on that previous report by analysing 397 incidents of Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) violations against Christians, multiple incidents of anti-Muslim riots, and discrimination against Hindu communities in the Northern and Eastern Provinces.
The findings of the study highlight a concerning trend of increased involvement of state officials as both active and passive actors in violations against minority communities. Moreover, the study finds that religious violence is sustained invariably through the action or inaction of the state
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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