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Attitudes of Social Services Professionals towards People with Albinism in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
No full textSocial services professionals are agents of change in any society. For many years, people with albinism in Tanzania have faced many injustices and malicious acts like murder, kidnapping, rape, cutting and selling their body parts. In Tanzania due to their condition, they have been placed under the category of “people with disability”. It has befallen social services professionals to be their saviors and protectors into helping them voice their problems and other issues.
This study aims at examining the attitudes of social services professionals, roles and precautionary measures taken towards protecting people with albinism in the Dar es Salaam region. In this study, 30 participants were contacted but only 24 responded and these were 6 social services professionals from the government, 6 from the non-governmental organizations, 10 people with albinism who acted as volunteers, 1 journalist and 1 social service professional from an embassy. This study was carried out between May to September 2019. A qualitative research design was adopted through a semi-structured interview guide. The analysis of these participants’ opinions was carried out with Nvivo 12 software.
The results of the analysis reveal that social services professionals have more positive attitudes like acceptance, respect, defense, support and love than negative attitudes which included unhelpfulness, pessimism, and unfairness towards people with albinism. Promoting education, advocacy and awareness-raising were some of the roles and precautionary measures used towards protecting people with albinism. From the findings, recommendations to the government, non-governmental organizations, social workers and people with albinism were to bring changes to the education, and health sector. It was realized that self-awareness concept on people with albinism themselves and the challenges facings social services professionals should be examined as an area for further research; these will positively stress and broaden the compassion about people with albinism and how to support them.Sosyal hizmet profesyonelleri her hangi bir toplumda değişimin temsilcilleridir. Uzun yıllar boyunca, Tanzanya'da albinizmli insanlara cinayet, adam kaçırma, tecavüz, kesim ve vücut parçalarını satma gibi birçok adaletsizlik ve kötü niyetli eylemlerle karşı karşıya kalmışlardır. Tanzanya'da durumları nedeniyle “engelli insanlar” kategorisine girmişlerdir. Sosyal hizmetler profesyonellerinin kurtarıcıları ve koruyucuları, sorunlarını dile getirmelerine yardımcı olmak için oluşturulmuştur.
Bu çalışma Dar es Salaam bölgesinde albinizm ile insanları korumaya yönelik sosyal hizmet profesyonellerinin tutumlarını, rollerini ve ihtiyati tedbirleri incelemeyi amaçlamaktadır. Bu çalışmada 30 katılımcı ile temasa geçilmiştir, ancak sadece 24 kişi yanıt vermiştir ve bunlar hükümetten 6, sivil toplum örgütlerinden 6, gönüllü olarak hareket eden 10 albinizmli insan, 1 gazeteci ve bir elçilikten 1 sosyal hizmet profesyonelidir. Bu çalışma Mayıs - Eylül 2019 tarihleri arasında gerçekleştirilmiştir. Yarı yapılandırılmış bir görüşme rehberi aracılığıyla nitel bir araştırma tasarımı benimsenmiştir. Bu katılımcıların görüşlerinin analizi Nvivo 12 yazılımı ile gerçekleştirildi.
Analizin sonuçları sosyal hizmet profesyonelleri daha olumlu tutumlara sahip, kabul, saygı, savunma, sevgi gibi destek tutumlarla albinizmli insanlara yardımcı olunması gerektiğini, bu sayede onların karamsarlık gibi olumsuz psikolojik durumlarının ve haksızlığa uğramarının önüne geçilebileceğini savunmuşlardır. Eğitimi, savunuculuğu ve farkındalığı arttırmayı teşvik etmek, albinizmli insanları korumak için kullanılan rollerden ve ihtiyati tedbirlerden bazılarıdır. Bulgulardan hükümete, sivil toplum kuruluşlarına, sosyal hizmet uzmanlarına ve albinizmli insanlara öneriler eğitim ve sağlık sektörüne değişiklikler getirecekti. Gelecekteki araştırmacılar için, albinizmli insanlar hakkında öz farkındalık kavramının ve sosyal hizmet profesyonellerinin karşılaştıkları zorlukların incelenmesi gerektiği, çünkü bunlar albinizmli insanlar ve bunların nasıl destekleneceği hakkında daha fazla bilgi edinmeye olumlu yardımcı olacağı görülmüştür
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
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
An Assessment of the Attitudes of Social Service Professionals towards People with Albinism in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Full text linkSocial services professionals are agents of change in any society. For many years, people with albinism in Tanzania have faced many injustices and malicious acts like murder, kidnapping, rape, cutting, and selling their body parts. In Tanzania, due to their condition, they have been placed under the category of “people with disability”. It has fallen to social services professionals to be their saviours and protectors, helping them voice their problems and other issues. This study aims to examine the attitudes of social services professionals, their roles, and the precautionary measures taken towards protecting people with albinism in the Dar es Salaam region. In this study, 30 participants were contacted, but only 24 responded, and these were 6 social services professionals from the government, 6 from the non-governmental organisations, 10 people with albinism who acted as volunteers, 1 journalist, and 1 social service professional from an embassy. A qualitative research design was adopted through a semi-structured interview guide. The analysis of these participants’ opinions was carried out with NVivo 12 software. The results of the analysis reveal that social services professionals have more positive attitudes, like acceptance, respect, defence, support, and love, than negative attitudes, which include unhelpfulness, pessimism, and unfairness towards people with albinism. Promoting education, advocacy, and awareness-raising were some of the roles and precautionary measures used towards protecting people with albinism. From the findings, recommendations to the government, non-governmental organisations, social workers, and people with albinism were to bring changes to the education and health sectors. It was realised that self-awareness concept on people with albinism and the challenges facing social services professionals should be examined as an area for further research; this will positively stress and broaden the compassion about people with albinism and how to support the
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