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Exploring barriers and enablers of service provision for survivors of human trafficking in the Bay Area: An action research study
Get PDFDespite increasing recognition of public health and rights issues associated with human trafficking globally and in the United States following the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, there has been limited research on how to systematically strengthen service access for survivors of sex and labor trafficking. The experience of service providers may provide insight into how trafficking survivor responses and service networks function in California’s Bay Area. This study explores provider perspectives on existing service networks and collaboration dynamics, including the barriers to and enablers of long-term service provision and survivor follow-up. A participatory research design included qualitative interviews with key informants working at nongovernmental organizations, organizational website reviews, and consultation with network service providers in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area. This study approach allowed for eliciting in-depth reflections of service provision, collective generation of stakeholder mapping, and consensus-driven recommendations arising from barriers and enablers to anti-trafficking service provision. This report enhances stakeholder awareness of existing organizational and policy resources and offers insights into research and programming on how anti-trafficking service response networks can be strengthened to provide survivor-centric support in the long-term
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
Trust in Maternity Care: A Contextual Exploration of Meaning and Determinants in Peri-Urban Kenya
Get PDFBackground: Trust in providers and health facilities is important to care-seeking and to health system quality and accountability. In Kenya, trust has been little-explored. ‘Trust’ is a multidimensional concept offering a distinctive lens on facility responsiveness during labor and delivery. This study explores the meaning and determinants of trust, and potential trust-building avenues, in the maternity setting.
Methods: A theoretically-driven qualitative approach was used to study trust from a range of local perspectives. Focus groups (n=8, N=70) with recently delivered women (RDW), pregnant women, and male partners and in-depth-interviews (n=33) with RDW, providers, management, and community health workers (CHWs), were conducted in and around a public sub-county-level hospital in peri-urban Central Kenya. Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed, and translated. Textual analysis consisted of inductive and deductive coding of themes and memo writing.
Results: Chapter IV describes the meaning and types of trust in maternity care reported across all participants. Trust in the maternity setting is nested within understandings of institutional and societal trust and can be analyzed into relational types. Content areas of trust include confidence, communication, integrity, mutual respect, competence, fairness, confidentiality, and systems trust. Overlap of trust content areas across relationship types suggests a shared understanding of trust across hierarchical perspectives: women and communities (use care/least power), CHWs (facilitate accessing care/low-medium power), providers (deliver care/medium-high power), and management (affect care/high power). Chapters V and VI describe a multi-faceted determinants framework for trust in the maternity setting clustered around patient/individual, provider, health facility, community, accountability, and structural factors. Chapter VII shows that building trust in maternity care requires a multi-faceted effort by various actors. This chapter presents cross-perspective evidence that critical trust-building mechanisms center on users, provider-patient interactions, provider-management interactions, facility environments, community-facility relationships, and supportive socio-political commitments.
Conclusions: Trust is contextually relevant to maternity care in Kenya. This study’s findings about the multidimensionality of trust contribute to a growing body of global and regional trust research. In particular, the study highlights the multi-faceted clustering of trust determinants and recognizes the importance of perspective and socio-political context in understanding and building trust
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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