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Recovery homes for LGBTQ+ Homeless and Runaway People in Italy: The Voice of Professionals
No full textServices for LGBTQ+ Individuals Experiencing Homelessness: A Systematic Review
Full text linkLGBTQ+ individuals are overrepresented within the homeless population. While literature on dedicated services is increasing, research on their effectiveness remains limited. This review aims to systematise studies that describe programs, evaluate interventions, or outline operational models and strategies for LGBTQ+ people experiencing homelessness (PEH). Key features for effectiveness across individual, organisational, and institutional dimensions are highlighted, with emphasis on positive well-being measures. The systematic review, based on PRISMA standards, included: (a) peer-reviewed journals; (b) articles in English; (c) targeting the LGBTQ+ homeless population; (d) describing programmes, reporting on the assessment or outlining recommendations tailored for LGBTQ+ PEH. Fifty-three articles were included. Recommendations on the individual level focused on psychological resources, such as increased self-reported visibility, positive LGBTQ+ self-identity, and sense of belonging. Interpersonal and community-level factors, such as LGBTQ+ community participation, activism, and chosen families, were also found to be fundamental for promoting well-being. Organisational-level characteristics fostering self-affirmation, comprising competent staff and providing access to transgender-related support, led to overall effectiveness. This paper outlines the potential of intersectionality-competent services in promoting the wellbeing of LGBTQ+ PEH, providing affirming emotional support and fostering community connection. Incorporating user-led recommendations in planning is essential to develop LGBTQ+ tailored services valuing empowerment and resources. Please refer to the Supporting Information section to find this article's
Valutazione del benessere nei servizi per persone LGBTQ+ senza dimora: una rassegna sistematica
No full textIntroduzione. La discriminazione sistemica porta le persone LGBTQ+ ad essere particolarmente esposte a situazioni di marginalità. Infatti, dati mostrano che in Europa il 25% delle persone senza dimora si identifica come LGBTQ+. I servizi dedicati a questa popolazione necessitano di linee operative secondo un monitoraggio evidence based, che si basi non solo sulla riduzione del danno, ma anche su indicatori che valutino il benessere dell'utenza, collegati in letteratura con una migliore efficacia. Obiettivi. La rassegna mira ad individuare quali indicatori vengano considerati nella valutazione di servizi per persone LGBTQ+ senza dimora. Particolare attenzione verrà prestata, nel quadro teorico della psicologia di comunità e della psicologia positiva, alle dimensioni del benessere utilizzate come indicatori di efficacia. Metodo. La rassegna sistematica, basata sui criteri PRISMAR, è stata svolta su quattro database (APA PsycInfo, Scopus, PubMed, ProQuest) secondo i seguenti criteri di inclusione: peer reviewed; XIV Congresso Nazionale Società Italiana di Psicologia di Comunità Aosta, 21-23 settembre 2023 in lingua inglese; popolazione target maggiorenne; focus su interventi, programmi, servizi e linee guida finalizzate all'autonomia residenziale di persone LGBTQ+ senza dimora. Risultati. Nonostante la scarsità di studi che valutino servizi per persone LGBTQ+ senza dimora, vi è stato un incremento di pubblicazioni negli ultimi anni. La rassegna mostra come queste si siano concentrate su indicatori di autonomia finanziaria e abitativa, evidenziando soprattutto i comportamenti a rischio e la riduzione del danno, senza però prendere in considerazione l’efficacia percepita dallə utenti. Pochi studi si focalizzano su fattori di benessere positivo (percezione di scelta, autonomia, autoefficacia, supporto sociale) come indicatori di efficacia dei servizi. Conclusioni. Dall’analisi degli studi è evidente come il monitoraggio interno di servizi per persone LGBTQ+ senza dimora dovrebbe tenere maggiormente conto di indicatori che rispondano alle esigenze di benessere positivo dellə utenti. Futuri studi che indaghino la relazione tra caratteristiche del servizio e dimensioni di benessere possono consentire di migliorare l’efficacia dei servizi esistenti
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
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