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Challenges Faced by Disabled Women in Benghazi and Al-Bayda, Libya: A Descriptive Study
Full text linkThis study looks at the cultural, social, and legislative issues related to the experiences of disabled women in Libya, specifically in the cities of Benghazi and Al-Bayda. Using a descriptive-analytical approach, the study explores the many barriers to the full integration of women with disabilities into society. Data were gathered using quantitative and qualitative methods, including formal questionnaires and direct involvement via social media platforms such as WhatsApp and Facebook. The sample was purposefully chosen to include women with a variety of disabilities between the ages of 18 and 33 and over, guaranteeing a complete representation of the target community. The findings indicate substantial impediments, such as social stigma, cultural prejudices, and legislative deficiencies, that prevent impaired women from attaining their goals and getting critical social assistance. The study emphasizes the importance of raising awareness and implementing inclusive policies to empower disadvantaged women, calling for a cultural shift toward greater empathy and support for their rights and integration. By addressing these issues, the study aims to contribute to the development of more effective strategies and interventions for empowering impaired women in Libya
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
Family cultural norms and its role in negative internet choices of children
No full textIn the current study, it was tried to recognize the variability of family upbringing when monitoring their children to prevent exposure to the disadvantages or negatives uses of the internet. The study adopts the use of a sample-based social survey methodology. Each sample was selected on the condition that the father and mother shall have children still studying in school and using the internet. This study observes 300 families in Al-Ain, UAE.El objetivo de este estudio es reconocer la variabilidad
de la educación familiar al monitorear a sus hijos para
evitar la exposición a las desventajas o usos negativos
de Internet. El estudio adopta el uso de una
metodología de encuesta social basada en muestras.
Cada muestra fue seleccionada en la condición de que
el padre y la madre tengan hijos que aún estudien en
la escuela y usen el Internet. Este estudio observa a
300 familias en Al-Ain, EAU
The Folktale: Its Origin and Sociological Function
Full text linkاستنادا إلى خصائص تكوين الخرافة أو الحكاية الشعبية يرى الباحثون أنها تركز على بعد واحد في قصتها وتهمل بقية الأبعاد. فعادة ما تكون القصة في الحكاية الشعبية سطحية وتتضمن أحداثا متكاملة تستند إلى سرد تصويري ولكنها تكون منفصلة عن الواقع. لا شك أن الحكايات الشعبية والأساطير والخرافات لها أصول وإلا لما بقيت في أذهان الناس وما كانت لتنتقل من جيل إلى آخر. لذلك فإن الهدف من هذه الدراسة هو تحديد طبيعة ووظيفة وأصل الخرافة من حيث كونها ميتافيزيقية أو دينية أو أنثروبولوجية أو أيديولوجية أو فكرية، أو ربما مجرد نتاج للخيال الاجتماعي لشرح بعض الأحداث الصعبة. تعتمد هذه الدراسة على المنهج التحليلي لتحليل محتوى نماذج من الحكايات الشعبية في سياقاتها الاجتماعية. وتشير نتائج الدراسة إلى أن لجوء الناس إلى الحكايات الشعبية هو نوع من الهروب من إخفاقاتهم والتعويض عن عدم قدرتهم على مواجهتها أو تفسيرها. وهكذا، شكلت الحكايات الشعبية والتقاليد المقدسة منطق خيال الناس الجامح في تصوير جميع جوانب نضالهم في الحياة. وقد وفر هذا الخيال مخرجا للناس من توترات تاريخهم من خلال التوظيف الخيالي للخرافات والحكايات الشعبية عن الأبطال والأساطير للتعويض عما لم يتمكنوا من تحقيقه في واقعهم. والمشكلة التي تعاني منها المجتمعات العربية هي التمسك غير الموضوعي بالماضي وقيمه والتحسر عليه، الأمر الذي جعل هذه المجتمعات تبحث عما تفتقده في المعجزات أو الخوارق التي قد تنقذها من أوضاعها البائسة.Based on its constituent characteristics, researchers figure out that the folk tales focus on one dimension in their stories and neglect the rest of the dimensions. Usually, the story in a folk tale is superficial and involves integrated events based on depictive narratives but it is usually disconnected from reality. There is no doubt that folk tales, myths and fables have origins otherwise they would not have survived in people\u27s minds and would not have been passed on from one generation to another. Therefore, the objective of this study is to identify the nature, function and root of the folk tale as being metaphysical, religious, anthropological, ideological, intellectual, or perhaps just a product of social imagination to explain some of the experienced events. In this study, the analytical approach is adopted to analyze the content of sample folk tales in their social contexts. The study findings indicate that people’s resort to folk tales is a kind of escape from their failures and a compensation for their inability to confront or explain them. Thus, folk tales and highly respected tradition have formed the logic of people’s extreme imagination of all aspects of their struggle in life. This imagination has provided a way out for people from the tensions of their history through the imaginary employment of fables and folk tales about heroes and legends to compensate for what they could not achieve in their reality. Perhaps the problem that Arab societies suffer from is the unobjective adherence to and regret of the past and its values, which made these societies search for what they miss through miracles or paranormalities that may rescue them from their miserable conditions
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
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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