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Perceptions socio-culturelles du recours aux pratiques magico-religieuses chez les orpailleurs sur le site aurifère artisanal de M’banga au Niger
Get PDFGold is a precious metal. In Niger, artisanal gold mining is a practice that leads to a rush of gold seekers to the gold sites. Every gold seeker goes to these sites in search of gold. This article examines the socio-cultural perceptions of the use of magico-religious practices by gold panners at the M’banga artisanal gold mining site. Based on qualitative research, M’banga provided the framework for analysis. The research questions are: How do gold miners perceive gold on the M’banga artisanal gold mining site? What are the magico-religious practices of the gold miners, based on different ethnolinguistic traits? The hypothesis is that the mystical dimension of gold is one of the reasons for the different perceptions of gold miners at the M’banga artisanal gold mining site. At the end of this study, the results obtained reveal that gold is perceived differently by gold miners depending on their cultural identity. However, the way gold miners perceive gold is linked to unorthodox practices that give rise to religious syncretism
Le recours à la coopération militaire multilatérale face aux groupes armés non étatiques au Niger
No full textRésumé: Le monde connaît des défis sécuritaires liés à des questions de mauvaise gouvernance, de pauvreté entraînant certaines couches sociales à se révolter avec des revendications d’ordre territorial, identitaire, islamique. La situation d’insécurité vécue au Sahel demeure une situation préoccupante où ces pays ont recours à la coopération militaire multilatérale. Les forces militaires étrangères participent aux côtés des armées nationales à la lutte contre les différents groupes armés non étatiques. Malgré la présence des bases étrangères, les populations locales subissent toujours les représailles des groupes armés non étatiques. A travers cet article, il s’agit de montrer comment la coopération militaire multilatérale permet de lutter contre le terrorisme au Niger. Ceci dans l’hypothèse qu’au Niger, la coopération militaire multilatérale reste inefficace devant les réalités du terrain. La substance de cette recherche est la combinaison de la recherche documentaire et les données collectées lors de la conduite d’un projet pilote sur l’orpaillage dans la région de Tillabéry et ma participation en tant que chercheur associé sur l’étude relative à l’exploitation minière artisanale de l’or à petite échelle et flux financiers illicites des conflits au Burkina Faso- Mali et Niger. Au terme de cette étude, les résultats obtenus montrent que la coopération militaire multilatérale au Niger concourt à la lutte contre le terrorisme mais ne règle pas de manière efficace la question sécuritaire. Partant des insuffisances de la coopération militaire multilatérale depuis 1960, le Niger doit assurer la sécurité des personnes et des biens et l’intégrité du territoire de façon souveraine pour son développement socio-économique.
Mots-clés : Bases militaires, coopération militaire multilatérale, développement, Niger
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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