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Collaboration between health and social services in the planning process : a case-study of one non-metropolitan county with particular reference to two health districts within that county
No full textDisrupting Fast Fashion: A Case Study about Social and Environmental Innovation
No full textInitiated in 2018, Disrupting Fast Fashion: A Case Study about Social and Environmental Innovation was a four-year project intended to recognize and undo the harm that fast fashion precipitates at its origin and in Canada, from both a mutual benefit and environmental point of view. Cornerstones of the research include a re-imagining of the roles of anonymous garment workers and plight of fast fashion, to create a socially innovative and alternative income producing avenue to support apparel skills training, sustainable employment, and community education
Empowering Women with Work at Home: Opportunity for Remote Home-based Apparel Production Networks
No full textThe shuttering of society led companies, institutions, and education to move to remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic. With this has come favourable circumstances for women with childcare and eldercare responsibilities to be employed because of continued work at home opportunities. Since 2020 there has been an increase of women in the workforce with children under the age of five inclusive of married women, single women, women with a high school education and less, as well as newcomers and immigrants. While todays work at home jobs are mainly digital jobs in the professions of accounting, legal, finance, marketing, human resources, health, customer service, and cybersecurity, there is also opportunity in the field of apparel manufacturing. By enabling apparel workers to work remotely an often ignored and potential workforce presents itself in an industry that is increasingly challenged with finding sewing skill and expertise. This is mutually beneficial as the women have access to an economy that might otherwise not be available to them because of their caregiving responsibilities
Building Circularity: Diverting end-of-use Textiles from Landfill to Boost Soil Amendment for Urban Farming Furthering Food Security
No full textFinding innovative solutions to industrial textile waste is an immediate challenge for the fashion industry and society at large. Bringing cellulosic textile waste, free of dyes and finishes, back to the soil is a circular solution for manufacturer textile offcuts and has the potential to provide organic matter to soil through a variety of amendments. This pilot studied the impacts of 100% cotton greige textile waste as a soil amendment, using cotton shred as a feedstock for creating cotton cover, cotton compost and cotton biochar soil amendments. The sweetie cherry tomato seed was used to grow 32 test plants and the team monitored plants for height, fruit quantity at harvest, aboveground biomass at harvest, soil health and plant tissue health against control plots in an urban farming facility
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
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