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What is the gender motive? A comparison of the main approaches used in feminicide statistics and communication
No full textDespite the widespread use of the term “femicide”, there are no agreed guidelines to define the phenomenon. This has led to frequent statistical contradictions. In recent years, two main approaches have emerged: the broad-range one, in which victims are often defined by the mere fact that the murderer was male, while motives are only auxiliary; in the second, instead, gender motives play the main role, following middle-range theory perspective. The aim will be to provide a new set of indicators to identify victims of femicide more precisely, distinguishing them from other female murders. The use of precise indicators is not limited to the classification of victims, as it can also enable more appropriate prevention programmes and more respectful communication.No existen directrices consensuadas para definir el feminicidio. Esto ha dado lugar a frecuentes contradicciones estadísticas. Se encontraron dos enfoques principales: el de largo alcance, en el que las víctimas suelen definirse por el mero hecho de que el asesino fuera varón, mientras que los motivos son sólo auxiliares; en el segundo, en cambio, los motivos de género desempeñan el papel principal, siguiendo la perspectiva de la teoría de rango medio. El objetivo será proporcionar un nuevo conjunto de indicadores que permitan identificar con mayor precisión a las víctimas de feminicidio, distinguiéndolas de otros asesinatos. El uso de indicadores precisos no se limita a la clasificación de las víctimas, ya que también puede permitir programas de prevención más adecuados y una comunicación más respetuosa
Tendenze e focus tematici nella letteratura scientifica sull’esitazione/propensione vaccinale. I risultati dell’analisi del contenuto come inchiesta / Dentale, Maria; Vetrano, Alessandro; Greco, Selene; Tabegna, Desirée - (2024), pp. 302-329
No full textL’approfondimento dello spettro delle ragioni connesse alla propensione/esitazione vaccinale è al centro di numerose indagini condotte a livello nazionale ed internazionale. Tali studi pongono in risalto la complessità e multi-dimensionalità del concetto di vaccine propensity/hesitancy, chiarendo la complessa dinamica sociale che connette il comportamento pro/no vax alla specificità del sistema di ragioni/valori che orienta il corso d’azione dei singoli. Collocandosi all’interno di questo scenario e rispondendo all’obiettivo di proporre una classificazione ragionata delle principali motivazioni connesse alla scelta di vaccinarsi/non vaccinarsi contro il Covid 19, il capitolo presenta e discute i risultati ottenuti a seguito dell’analisi del contenuto come inchiesta delle fonti bibliografiche reperite sul tema. La procedura di analisi ha preso avvio da una selezione ragionata delle fonti bibliografiche (articoli, report di ricerca), ottenuta mediante una web research condotta per parole chiave sui principali motori di ricerca (Google Scholar, Web of Science...). La rassegna bibliografica ha avuto come esito la costruzione di un archivio ragionato in cui risulta incluso un cospicuo numero di contributi, ripartiti in diverse aree scientifico disciplinari (Psicologia e Medicina Sociale; ii. Sociologia della Conoscenza; iii. Sociologia Economica; iv. Sociologia della Comunicazione; v. Sociologia della Scienza; vi. Scienze Politiche; vii. Filosofia e Semiotica). Nei contributi presi in esame risultano variamente combinate informazioni connesse ai seguenti aspetti: propensione ai vaccini in generale; propensione al vaccino anti Covid; ragioni della propensione o della esitazione; fiducia nella scienza e nel sistema mediale. La discussione dei risultati restituirà un quadro molto articolato delle connessioni esistenti tra ragioni, orientamenti valoriali e pratiche sociali dei vaccinati e degli esitanti, consentendo di giungere ad una profilatura ben precisa del prospetto motivazionale che orienta/ha orientato la scelta di vaccinarsi - o meno - contro il Covid 19. D’altra parte, l’analisi consentirà di cogliere in quali direzioni si è mosso un dato comparto scientifico negli ultimi anni e su quali specifici focus ha maggiormente speso risorse e competenze
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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