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Murray-Robertson (Anne). Grasset, pionnier de l'Art Nouveau
No full textDierkens-Aubry Françoise. Murray-Robertson (Anne). Grasset, pionnier de l'Art Nouveau. In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 62, fasc. 2, 1984. Histoire médiévale, moderne et contemporaine — Middeleeuwse, moderne en hedendaagse geschiedenis. pp. 384-387
The fork in the road — a Scottish perspective on relationship-building as a catalyst toward prevention in child welfare
No full textThis dissertation uses a case-based methodology, in-depth participant interviews, and document review, to explore the experiences of child welfare professionals within an emerging Scottish child welfare system. The Scottish system is often viewed as a hybrid approach that is highly focused on prevention and community involvement but sits between residual approaches found in countries such as the U.S. and Canada, and universal approaches found in countries such as Sweden and Belgium. Since Scotland’s devolution from the United Kingdom in 1999, new policies have impacted all areas of Scottish life and many are highly focused on the well-being of Scottish children. The perspectives of Scottish child welfare professionals provide important insights into a distinct, relational approach to social work that emphasizes characteristics such as honesty, listening, persistence, trust, and understanding. Unique aspects of the Scottish system include a focus on civic engagement, a multi-agency approach, and including children’s views from the first point of contact. Additionally there has been a focus on working with families impacted by substance misuse through an approach that acknowledges the spectrum of issues that often surround addiction, but is still highly focused on resilience and recovery. The experience of the Scots in developing and implementing their child welfare system over the past decade may provide important insights into building sustainable, holistic models of child and family support in other cultural contexts.
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The future of the rights of nature: an interdisciplinary scoping analysis
No full textThe Earth is facing multiple interdependent social and ecological crises including climate change, biodiversity loss and habitat loss, necessitating an urgent rethink of the ways in which humankind conserve and manage natural environments. In such a context, the proposal of recognising the rights of nature (RoN) offers a possible paradigm change in our approach to and relationship with nature. RoN is increasingly being recognized in laws, legal decisions, and declarations worldwide. The reasons for this are complex and place-specific, but relate to issues of social equity and representational justice, the (in)effectiveness and/or (non)enforcement of environmental regulation, and the pressing concerns for global socio-ecological challenges. RoN is seen by many as the paradigm shift needed to embed ecology and the environment into nature-based policy and management solutions to address biodiversity loss, climate change, and sustainable development. Our scoping study highlights that despite its promising role to offer a revolutionary approach to our relationship with nature, academic research and funding have yet to engage meaningfully with this emerging field of research. Existing research projects are grappling with RoN from specific disciplinary perspectives and the truly transformative nature of this new approach to our environment must still be explored. Although rights of nature have been introduced in various countries across the world, research linking humanities, social sciences and environmental sciences is still lacking. As our report highlights, the potentially transformative impact of RoN on social and ecological systems warrants such interdisciplinary research. To fully understand how human beings and societies relate to the non-human environment, how to comprehend and act upon the obligations we have towards nature and to each other, and how to navigate and creatively re-think our social, legal, and political approaches to non-human nature, we need methodologies and approaches that transcend humanities, social sciences and environmental sciences as well as ones that can better link theories with practice. To fill this gap, our scoping study offers first ideas and methodologies to undertake interdisciplinary research, notably between humanities, social sciences, and environmental sciences. The study suggests that recognising RoN could enhance local communities’ participatory role by recognising their ‘guardianship’ role towards nature, which could contribute to a better socio-cultural and ecological model of social-environmental governance, and as such could offer a solid platform to bring a real transformative approach to address some of the most urgent social-environmental challenges of our planet. To address these challenges, our report suggests common areas of focus for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research, whilst also examining possible avenues to support the funding of this research. We also highlight the need for more research in a European context as research on RoN and how it could be developed in Europe is lagging behind compared to research in other parts of the globe. Due to the urgency of the social-ecological challenges at the heart of this research (e.g., biodiversity, climate change, sustainable development), the study highlights the required funding interventions that span a range of types, scales, and timelines to support the strong and growing pipeline of transdisciplinary research needed to understand, evaluate, and put into practice the potential truly revolutionary nature of RoN
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
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