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Mellan passion och press: En utforskning av det sociala arbetets verklighet : En mindre fältstudie i Bangkok, Thailand
No full textThis following study explores the experiences of licensed social workers, volunteers and employees of a social enterprise in Bangkok, Thailand. The focus is on the different challenges the participants face while working in the social work field, what resources they lack and what motivations drive them forward. This research aims to gain a deeper understanding of the participants' realities in an urban Thai context. Using a qualitative perspective, with semi structured interviews, eleven interviews were conducted with a diverse group of participants who all work in the social work field in Bangkok. The theories this study focuses on are Street-Level Bureaucracy and ecological systems theories. The data reveals several recurring challenges through all groups, such as limited funding, staff shortage, emotional strains and bureaucratic constraints. A significant gap was identified between the increasing social needs and the institutional support available to address them. Despite these difficulties, the participants all express a desire to keep working in the field for the foreseeable future. Internal motivations rooted in compassion, a sense of community and personal values are some of the things that keep the participants active. These insights might help and contribute to future discussions about how to better support social workers, in all fields, in Southeast Asia. Denna studie utforskar erfarenheterna från legitimerade socialarbetare, volontärer och anställda på ett socialt företag i Bangkok, Thailand. Fokuset ligger på de olika utmaningar deltagarna ställs inför när de arbetar inom socialt arbete, vilka resurser de saknar och vilka motiv som driver dem framåt. Denna forskning syftar till att få en djupare förståelse av deltagarnas verklighet från en urban thailändsk kontext. Med hjälp av semistrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes elva intervjuer med en varierande grupp av deltagare som alla arbetar inom socialt arbete i Bangkok. De teorier denna studie utgår ifrån är Street-Level Bureaucracy och ekologisk systemteori. Datan avslöjar flera återkommande utmaningar inom alla grupper, såsom begränsad finansiering, personalbrist, känslomässiga påfrestningar och byråkratiska begränsningar. En betydande klyfta identifierades mellan de ökande sociala behoven och det institutionella stöd som finns tillgängligt för att tillgodose dem. Trots dessa svårigheter uttrycker deltagarna alla en önskan om att fortsätta arbeta med socialt arbete i framtiden. Drivkraft från medkänsla, gemenskap och personliga värderingar är några av de saker som motiverar deltagarna att fortsätta. Dessa insikter kan hjälpa och bidra till framtida diskussioner om hur man bättre kan stödja socialarbetare, inom alla områden, i Sydostasien
Mellan passion och press: En utforskning av det sociala arbetets verklighet : En mindre fältstudie i Bangkok, Thailand
No full textThis following study explores the experiences of licensed social workers, volunteers and employees of a social enterprise in Bangkok, Thailand. The focus is on the different challenges the participants face while working in the social work field, what resources they lack and what motivations drive them forward. This research aims to gain a deeper understanding of the participants' realities in an urban Thai context. Using a qualitative perspective, with semi structured interviews, eleven interviews were conducted with a diverse group of participants who all work in the social work field in Bangkok. The theories this study focuses on are Street-Level Bureaucracy and ecological systems theories. The data reveals several recurring challenges through all groups, such as limited funding, staff shortage, emotional strains and bureaucratic constraints. A significant gap was identified between the increasing social needs and the institutional support available to address them. Despite these difficulties, the participants all express a desire to keep working in the field for the foreseeable future. Internal motivations rooted in compassion, a sense of community and personal values are some of the things that keep the participants active. These insights might help and contribute to future discussions about how to better support social workers, in all fields, in Southeast Asia. Denna studie utforskar erfarenheterna från legitimerade socialarbetare, volontärer och anställda på ett socialt företag i Bangkok, Thailand. Fokuset ligger på de olika utmaningar deltagarna ställs inför när de arbetar inom socialt arbete, vilka resurser de saknar och vilka motiv som driver dem framåt. Denna forskning syftar till att få en djupare förståelse av deltagarnas verklighet från en urban thailändsk kontext. Med hjälp av semistrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes elva intervjuer med en varierande grupp av deltagare som alla arbetar inom socialt arbete i Bangkok. De teorier denna studie utgår ifrån är Street-Level Bureaucracy och ekologisk systemteori. Datan avslöjar flera återkommande utmaningar inom alla grupper, såsom begränsad finansiering, personalbrist, känslomässiga påfrestningar och byråkratiska begränsningar. En betydande klyfta identifierades mellan de ökande sociala behoven och det institutionella stöd som finns tillgängligt för att tillgodose dem. Trots dessa svårigheter uttrycker deltagarna alla en önskan om att fortsätta arbeta med socialt arbete i framtiden. Drivkraft från medkänsla, gemenskap och personliga värderingar är några av de saker som motiverar deltagarna att fortsätta. Dessa insikter kan hjälpa och bidra till framtida diskussioner om hur man bättre kan stödja socialarbetare, inom alla områden, i Sydostasien
Mellan passion och press: En utforskning av det sociala arbetets verklighet : En mindre fältstudie i Bangkok, Thailand
No full textThis following study explores the experiences of licensed social workers, volunteers and employees of a social enterprise in Bangkok, Thailand. The focus is on the different challenges the participants face while working in the social work field, what resources they lack and what motivations drive them forward. This research aims to gain a deeper understanding of the participants' realities in an urban Thai context. Using a qualitative perspective, with semi structured interviews, eleven interviews were conducted with a diverse group of participants who all work in the social work field in Bangkok. The theories this study focuses on are Street-Level Bureaucracy and ecological systems theories. The data reveals several recurring challenges through all groups, such as limited funding, staff shortage, emotional strains and bureaucratic constraints. A significant gap was identified between the increasing social needs and the institutional support available to address them. Despite these difficulties, the participants all express a desire to keep working in the field for the foreseeable future. Internal motivations rooted in compassion, a sense of community and personal values are some of the things that keep the participants active. These insights might help and contribute to future discussions about how to better support social workers, in all fields, in Southeast Asia. Denna studie utforskar erfarenheterna från legitimerade socialarbetare, volontärer och anställda på ett socialt företag i Bangkok, Thailand. Fokuset ligger på de olika utmaningar deltagarna ställs inför när de arbetar inom socialt arbete, vilka resurser de saknar och vilka motiv som driver dem framåt. Denna forskning syftar till att få en djupare förståelse av deltagarnas verklighet från en urban thailändsk kontext. Med hjälp av semistrukturerade intervjuer genomfördes elva intervjuer med en varierande grupp av deltagare som alla arbetar inom socialt arbete i Bangkok. De teorier denna studie utgår ifrån är Street-Level Bureaucracy och ekologisk systemteori. Datan avslöjar flera återkommande utmaningar inom alla grupper, såsom begränsad finansiering, personalbrist, känslomässiga påfrestningar och byråkratiska begränsningar. En betydande klyfta identifierades mellan de ökande sociala behoven och det institutionella stöd som finns tillgängligt för att tillgodose dem. Trots dessa svårigheter uttrycker deltagarna alla en önskan om att fortsätta arbeta med socialt arbete i framtiden. Drivkraft från medkänsla, gemenskap och personliga värderingar är några av de saker som motiverar deltagarna att fortsätta. Dessa insikter kan hjälpa och bidra till framtida diskussioner om hur man bättre kan stödja socialarbetare, inom alla områden, i Sydostasien
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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