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Principle or pragmatism? Lesbian parenting, shared residence and parental responsibility after Re G (Residence:Same-Sex Partner)
No full textIn Re G (Residence: Same-Sex Partner) the Court of Appeal was called upon to determine the level of involvement and status to which a lesbian co-parent was entitled following her separation from the biological mother of children they had raised together. The decision represents something of a landmark for same-sex parents. In his judgment, Thorpe LJ took a principled approach designed to assimilate the appellant’s position, insofar as it was possible to do so, with that of a biological father in similar circumstances. In stark (and welcome) contrast to previous lesbian parenting cases, it is difficult not to notice that the word ‘lesbian’ does not feature once in the judgment. Whereas previously a mother’s lesbianism has been ‘a factor to be considered’ in cases arising under Section 8 of the Children Act 1989, the exclusion of lesbianism as a relevant factor in Re G indicates that the courts are now prepared to countenance the reality of lesbians as parents as a matter of principle, not merely on an ad hoc basis, as has hitherto been the case. In that sense it could be argued that, with his Re G judgment, Thorpe LJ has ushered in a new era of acceptance for same-sex parents, one in which their status as parents is duly recognised and reflected in law. However, it is argued here that the judgment raises several issues that may practically limit the utility of Re G as a precedent in future, similar cases. Indirectly, these issues champion the need for a new legal understanding and definition of parenthood. Whilst the judgment heralds a new era in transcending the prejudice and presumptions that have tainted previous lesbian parenting judgments, it also highlights the need for further reform
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
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
Quasi-bond orbitals from maximum-localization hybrids for ab initio CI calculations.
No full textA method is presented for localizing canonical HF molecular orbitals to obtain physically meaningful orthogonal 'quasi-bond orbitals' (QBO). Atomic hybrids and nonorthogonal bond orbitals (BO) are defined according to a well-established procedure. The transformation of the HF MO is such that the resulting QBO resemble as closely as possible the BO. With respect to the BO, the QBO have the advantage of being orthogonal and optimized at the HF level. Tests run with a selected CI algorithm (CIPSI) on the two anions [CH2---NH2---CH2]- and [NH2---CH2---CH2]- show how convenient it is to use QBO in CI calculations. The resulting CI wavefunctions lend themselves to a clear physical interpretation
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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