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In My New Home: The Daily Lives of People Living in Public Houses after a Long Period of Homelessness
Get PDFHomelessness refers to a loss of social relationships and a condition of isolation and stigma that affects a person's well-being. Although the literature has revealed the crucial role of a home in a person's well-being, few studies have explored the daily lives of people who transition from homeless services to an independent home. People who experience homelessness are at risk of remaining connected to homeless services even after finding a home. This study aimed to explore the daily lives of people who have obtained public housing, focusing on their daily relationships and the places they frequent. Data were collected through interviews with quantitative and qualitative measures involving 14 people with a history of homelessness who had obtained a public house in a medium-sized Italian city. Several themes concerning social relationships and places were identified. Regarding social relationships, people experience loneliness or a connection with the community and homeless services. They spend their time alone at home or around the city. The implications of the results are discussed with respect to practice and research on homelessness
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
MY PLACE IS CALLED HOME The analysis of the "Accompaniment Path to Housing" for former homeless people living in a house
Get PDFopenLa casa per le persone senza dimora rappresenta l’opportunità di ri-crearsi una quotidianità, di avere un senso di continuità e di stabilità, di riappropriarsi del proprio spazio, tutte caratteristiche proprie della condizione abitativa e assenti per chi vive in strada. L’obiettivo principale del presente elaborato è indagare la nuova quotidianità e lo sviluppo del senso di controllo sulla propria vita. Lo studio si è svolto all’interno del “Percorso di Accompagnamento all’Abitare” in collaborazione con il Settore Servizi Sociali del Comune di Padova. I dati sono stati raccolti attraverso interviste semi strutturate, svolte in due tempi a distanza di sei mesi, che hanno coinvolto 14 persone con un passato senza dimora inserite in un percorso di accompagnamento all’abitare. Dalle analisi sono state individuate cinque aree tematiche riguardanti la riappropriazione del proprio spazio, l’accettazione della casa, la creazione di nuove abitudini, l’integrazione nella comunità e lo sguardo al futuro, che hanno un ruolo rilevante nel come viene vissuta la casa e la vita quotidiana. Non è stato individuato un incremento del controllo percepito a distanza di sei mesi. Le implicazioni e i limiti della ricerca sono stati discussi.Housing for homeless people represents an opportunity to re-create an everyday life for themselves, to have a sense of continuity and stability, and to regain possession of their own space, all of which are characteristics of the housing condition and absent for those living on the streets. The main objective of the present paper is to investigate the new everydayness and the development of a sense of control over one's life. The study was carried out as part of the "Pathway to Housing Accompaniment" in collaboration with the Social Services Sector of the City of Padua. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews, conducted at two times six months apart, involving 14 people with a history of homelessness placed on a housing accompaniment pathway. From the analyses, five thematic areas were identified regarding reappropriation of one's space, acceptance of home, creating new habits, integration into the community and looking to the future, which play a relevant role in how home and daily life is experienced. No increase in perceived control was identified at six months. The implications and limitations of the research were discussed
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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