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Chi si prende cura delle migranti
Full text linkLa presenza delle donne migranti si è consolidata sul territorio italiano, dove vanno ricoprendo un ruolo prezioso di collegamento tra culture, di mediazione tra i poteri pubblici e le comunità di appartenenza. L'articolo propone una riflessione sui bisogni di salute delle donne straniere. Uno degli elementi più critici in questo contesto consiste nella discrepanza tra la possibilità teorica di accesso e l’effettiva fruibilità del servizio. L’investimento in formazione e occupazione rivolto alla popolazione femminile nel suo insieme appare in quest'ambito come prioritario, accompagnato da misure di adeguamento dei servizi, di semplificazione degli accessi e, laddove possibile, dal ricorso allo strumento della mediazione culturale
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
Informal childcare arrangements: a comparison between Italians and migrants
Full text linkAs migrants settle in their destination country, for those who reunited the family or after childbirth childcare becomes a priority. Most studies on migrants’ childcare arrangements have focused on parental use of formal childcare rather than on different informal childcare solutions by analysing only families with preschool-age children. Italy poses an interesting case study because its welfare system is characterised by a familistic model of care, based on solidarity between generations. In familistic countries, migrants’ childcare solutions are more constrained. In this study, we analysed differences in informal childcare needs and arrangements for children younger than 14 between Italians and migrants from different countries of origin. We merged two surveys conducted by the Italian National Statistics Institute in 2011–2012: ‘Social Condition and Integration of Foreign Citizens’, a sample of households with at least one migrant with foreign citizenship, and ‘Multiscopo—Aspects of Daily Life’, a sample of households in Italy. We found that household composition and parents’ employment status play an important role in shaping informal childcare arrangements. Overall, migrants are less likely to use informal childcare, especially grandparents, than Italians but when they do, they rely more on other relatives and non-relatives than Italians. Moreover, differences emerge across migrant subgroups. This study is the first in Italy to contribute to an understanding of the role of migrant status in determining parents’ childcare arrangements for children up to 13 years
Migrants' choices pertaining to informal childcare in Italy and France: A complex relationship between the origin and destination countries
Full text linkChildcare is a need that inevitably emerges once migrants establish themselves
and their families in their destination country. However, migrants' use of informal
childcare still constitutes an under‐researched phenomenon. Using data from the
‘Social Condition and Integration of Foreign Citizens’ survey (2011–2012) for
Italy and the ‘Trajectoires et Origines’ survey (2008–2009) for France, this paper
examines differences between migrants living in the two countries in terms of
their use of informal childcare and, more specifically, their informal childcare
arrangements. We employ a comparative analysis because we hypothesised that
parental choices would depend on the migrants' region of origin, the institutional
context of their destination country and the interplay between these two
elements. The results suggest that migrants' choices stem from a complex
relationship between the norms and beliefs of the country of origin and those in
the destination country, which are generally characterised by different family
policies and levels of childcare availability. We show that the use of informal
childcare is higher among migrants in Italy than it is among those in France, even
among migrants from the same region of origin. The results also suggest that the
use of particular informal childcare arrangements varies by region of origin
regardless of destination country, supporting the hypothesis that migrants' cultural
values and beliefs play a critical role in determining childcare arrangements.
Finally, we demonstrate that household composition and parents' occupational
status strongly influence migrants' childcare choices
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
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