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A Reflection on Security Agents’ Human Rights Violations in the Enforcement of Covid-19 Measures
Full text linkThis paper reflects on security agents’ response efforts throughout the Covid-19 period across the world. The aim of the paper is to draw the human rights excesses perpetrated by security forces across the world to stimulate rethinking of States’ security, securitization, and policing policies as well as strategies in times of emergencies and pandemics. Data informing the discussion in the paper were drawn from secondary sources such as journal articles and online news portals. The discussion shows that various regimes of securitization characterized the pandemic period. The contention of the paper is that the enforcement of Covid-19 restrictions by security forces in some countries resulted in violations of several human rights. The way the enforcement of the pandemic measures was carried out impaired people’s rights and their dignity. Hence, trauma may be one of the major challenging issues to deal with in the post-Covid-19 era. The paper contributes to the understanding of the interaction between security and human rights. Keywords: Security Agents, Human Rights, Violation, Covid-19, Enforcement DOI: 10.7176/JLPG/125-01 Publication date:October 31st 202
A Case Study of the Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Church Activities in the Catholic Diocese of Damongo in the Savannah Region of Ghana
Full text linkSince the emergence of the Covid-19 virus, the world has changed in almost all spheres. Economies, transportation, health, commerce, tourism, education, hospitality, employment, agriculture, religion, among others have all been significantly impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. The overarching goal of the study was to explore the impact of Covid-19 on church activities in the Catholic diocese of Damongo in the Savannah region of Ghana. Thus, the study explored the perceptions of Catholic priests in Damongo diocese about the Covid-19 pandemic, examined the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on church activities in the various parishes as well as sought to gain some insights into the strategies priests in the various parishes adopted to cope with the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic. Using a qualitative case design, sixteen (16) priests from all the parishes in the Catholic diocese of Damongo were purposively selected and interviewed. The data was analyzed thematically. The findings revealed competing perceptions about the Covid-19 pandemic among priests in the diocese. The findings also showed that the impact of Covid-19 on church activities in the diocese of Damongo has been severe. Among other things, finances of parishes diminished, church attendance declined, and the faith of parishioners was put to the test during the pandemic. Yet, parishes also learned new ways of evangelizing during the pandemic, namely through digitalization. Survival was a major challenge for parishes during the pandemic. Priests resorted to God for protection. Lay associations and societies were appealed to for donations. Digital platforms were adopted to facilitate evangelization. Based on the findings, the study recommended that parishes should be pastorally proactive, invest in other sustainable ventures, and use accrued funds judiciously. The study further recommended that a self-reliance drive which the diocese initiated in the past be upheld and parishes should explore modern digital means of reaching out to the community of faithful across the diocese of Damongo. Keywords: Covid-19 Pandemic, Impact, Church Activities, Catholic Diocese, Damongo, Savanah Region, Ghana DOI: 10.7176/EJBM/14-5-03 Publication date:March 31st 202
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
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