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An emerging ‘camp labour regime’: refugees’ labour between production and reproduction
No full textUsing Italy as a case study, this paper extends the debate on refugees’ differential inclusion in the European labour market by considering their spaces for living and social reproduction. Departing from the notion of ‘labour regime’ and the definition of a Dormitory Labour Regime, the paper argues that we are assisting in the emergence of a Camp Labour Regime – a situation in which the form of accommodation (i.e. refugee reception facilities) plays a pivotal role in the organisation of production, representing a nodal point to foster labour concentration, wage reduction and labour intensification, thereby ‘fashioning’ refugee labour as both cheap and flexible, although at the same time constituting spaces of opportunity for refugee workers. Therefore, the paper illustrates the role played by the three main actors – the state, the companies and the refugees themselves – in coproducing and partaking in this emerging Camp Labour Regime
Gli obiettivi formativi nella scuola primaria in un'ottica di pari opportunità. Verso i Livelli Essenziali delle Prestazioni
No full textThe changes occurring in the regulatory framework (the so-called Legge delega n.42/2009) have modified the rules of the central government transfers to the Education sector, and introduced the standard needs and the Performances'essential levels (LEP - Livelli Essenziali delle Prestazioni) as a base for fiscal federalism. This study aims at proposing an operational framework, grounded on the Equality of Opportunity framework, for the LEP's determination. The crucial issue of this literature - the detection of types and circumstances causing typization - is solved through the implementation of latent classes analysis method, instead of using an ad hoc selection of variables composing the set of circumstances. The following analysis is performed using data concerning primary school students, measured by INVALSI-SVN
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
Capsule Endoscopy in the Detection of Non-Small Bowel Lesions Missed By Endoscopy
No full textBackground and aims: Capsule endoscopy (CE) is indicated in cases with obscure gastrointestinal bleeding (OGIB).
However, lesions detected by CE are frequently within the reach of conventional Upper or lower GI endoscopy. We
evaluated the accuracy of CE in the study of OGIB, examining the incidence of CE detected non-small bowel lesions
(NSBL) missed by conventional endoscopy and studying its impact on patient management.
Methods: We retrospectively analyzed 2010 CE procedures performed in a tertiary care center (IBD-Unit Referral
Centre in Bologna), comparing the findings on CE to those on prior colonoscopy and upper GI endoscopy
performed within 3 months and two weeks of the CE procedure, respectively. We evaluated the impact of CE
findings on patient management.
Results: CE revealed abnormal findings in 1608 out of 2010 patients. Previously missed NSBLs were revealed on CE
in 283 cases. Of these, 265 pre-CE endoscopic reports were found to not conform to reporting guidelines. NSBLs
on CE led to management changes in 271 patients.
Conclusion: This study confirms the utility of CE in patients with OGIB. However, in a considerable number of
cases, CE identified lesions missed by conventional endoscopy, suggesting that a second look prior to CE may be
appropriate in some patients
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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