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Forensic science and human rights in Afghanistan
No full textFor this episode of Sub Rosa, Kate Grealy interviewed Zabi Mazoori, who coordinates the Afghanistan project for Physicians for Human Rights’ International Forensic Program.
In 2001, he fled persecution by the Taliban and sought asylum in Australia. He returned to Afghanistan to pursue human rights work in 2008.
Zabi Mazoori spent two years working at the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, specialising in transitional justice. He also consulted for Physicians for Human Rights, where he facilitated the Paraprofessional Mass Grave Site Team and Basic Human Osteology Training conducted in 2010 at the Afghan National Police Academy. He is also one of the founders of the Afghanistan ForensiceScience Organization and a founding member of the Transitional Justice Coordination Group.
In this episode, Kate and Zabi discussed the development of forensic training in Afghanistan for documenting and preserving evidence in mass grave and massacre exhumations. They discuss how this helps to prosecute perpetrators of violence, some of whom are still in power, and to ensure dignity to victims by enabling proper burials of loved ones.
They also discuss how hymen-examination for virginity-testing emerged as a forensic issue, and how this is a scientifically invalid process. The Afghanistan Forensic Science Organization gained support from the ulama to call for a total ban of such tests.
At the end, Zabi describes major changes that have occurred in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban and highlights gaps in development, particularly in higher education, which Zabi describes as integral to the country’s future development
An Early Uruk Site in Al-Qadisiya Governate (Iraq): Exploratory Site Survey at Jemdat Zabi
No full textAbstract. Despite its importance as the foundation of the later urban south Mesopotamian landscape, the Early Uruk period has seldom been examined. This paper presents recent survey work at the Early Uruk site of Jemdat Zabi, located in the Sumer district in the Al-Qadisiya Governorate, Southern Iraq. From ths work at the site, we were able to record a wide variety of objects and document visible architectural remains on the surface dating to the Early Uruk period. Here we will provide a brief summary of the Early Uruk period, discuss our findings from the site of Jemdat Zabi and contextualize these findings within our overall understanding of the period. The aim here is to start a conversation about this period through the function of Jemdat Zabi as a town and its role in the region during this period.Résumé. En dépit de son importance comme fondement du paysage urbain ultérieur du Sud mésopotamien, la période de l’Uruk ancien a rarement été étudiée. Cet article présente une étude récente du site de Jemdat Zabi, datant du début de la période d'Uruk et situé dans le district de Sumer du gouvernorat d'Al-Qadisiya, en Irak du sud. Nos travaux ont permis d'enregistrer une grande variété d'objets et de documenter des vestiges architecturaux visibles en surface datant de la période de l’Uruk ancien. Dans cet article, nous présentons un bref résumé de la période, nous discutons de nos découvertes sur ce site, et nous les replaçons dans le contexte de notre compréhension globale de cette période. L'objectif est d'entamer le débat sur cette période à travers la fonction de Jemdat Zabi en tant que ville, et son rôle dans la région au cours de cette période
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
Youcef Aibèche (Sétif), De Sitifis à Zabi, glissement ou changement de capitale
No full textYoucef Aibeche (professeur à l'université de Sétif 2, Algérie), De Sitifis à Zabi, glissement ou changement de capitale Mercredi 9 mars 2016 à 16 h 30 ENS, salle F 45, rue d'Ulm 75005 Paris Informations : AOROC Affiche Youcef Aibeche - 9 mars 201
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
Youcef Aibèche (Sétif), De Sitifis à Zabi, glissement ou changement de capitale
No full textYoucef Aibeche (professeur à l'université de Sétif 2, Algérie), De Sitifis à Zabi, glissement ou changement de capitale Mercredi 9 mars 2016 à 16 h 30 ENS, salle F 45, rue d'Ulm 75005 Paris Informations : AOROC Affiche Youcef Aibeche - 9 mars 201
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