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Il difficile bilanciamento tra tutela della madre vulnerabile, best interest del minore e diritti culturali della donna migrante al vaglio della Corte Europea dei Diritti dell’Uomo
No full textIl contributo offre il commento di una recente della Corte Europea dei Diritti dell’Uomo riguardante un caso di violazione del diritto alla vita privata e familiare, di cui all’art. 8 della Convenzione Europea dei Diritti dell’Uomo, da parte della Repubblica Italiana.
L’autrice ricostruisce i principali fatti che caratterizzano il caso concreto e le questioni di diritto sottoposte all’attenzione della Corte, analizzando la sentenza in commento sulla base di due essenziali nodi logico-argomenta- tivi: il primo riguarda il difficile contemperamento tra i valori protetti dalla normativa in materia di adozione e il diritto di genitori e figli a mantenere in vita, per quanto compatibile con il best interest del minore, il rapporto parentale; il secondo gruppo di argomentazioni riguarda invece la situazione di vulnerabilità della ricorrente, donna, madre, di origine nigeriana e vittima di tratta di esseri umani, nonché il tema dei diritti culturali nell’ambito delle relazioni familiari
The vulnerability of refugees: Some reflections on definitions and measurement practices
No full textThe legal and policy discourse on refugees has been mainly focusing on the labelling of particularly vulnerable persons or groups, while it has neglected to offer reflections on the effects of definitions and assessment practices over the creation of stereotypes and of biases in the identification of beneficiaries of protection. The aim of this paper was to offer some reflections on the how categories of vulnerability defined by international and supranational law are operationalised and implemented in the practice of the vulnerability assessment inside the humanitarian organisations. Our analysis shows that the vagueness of the legal definitions affects the way in which humanitarian organisations operationalise it. It also shows that the complexity of the relationships among the various vulnerability dimensions has generally been underrated in both scholarly writings and humanitarian practices. Thus, we outline the basis for alternative responses by the agencies engaged in vulnerability assessment practices
Sustainable Private Law tools for regeneration of abandoned properties in Sicily. Cases and models
No full textThis paper aims to explore the connection between the concept of sustainable
development and urban regeneration as a strategic tool for promoting
inclusive city development. The objective is to identify potential sustainable
private law instruments through the analysis of case studies concerning
the regeneration of abandoned properties in Sicily.
The first part of this essay (sections 2 - 3) examines the scientific and regulatory
framework, providing the reference context for the present study. Specifically,
the concepts of sustainability and the circular economy are explored,
as well as their role in urban development, also focusing on limiting land consumption.
Throughout this analysis, the importance of linking environmental
resources – particularly the soil – to the debated concept of “common goods”
becomes evident. In this regard, an investigation into the concept of the “commons”
and its salient features is conducted (section 4) with a specific focus on
soil and its implications for private property. Additionally, the concept of urban
regeneration is proposed as a tool for promoting economic growth while
preserving environmental quality and fostering social cohesion (section 5).
Despite the wide availability of literature on the topic, we want to concentrate
on the relationship between sustainable development goals and
urban regeneration. This paper aims to present the urban regeneration ex-
periences implemented in Gangi, Cammarata and Favara, which are three
small villages in Sicily. The project, known as ‘Case a 1 euro’ (Houses for
1 euro), was launched in 2009 with the objective of preserving abandoned
properties in these Sicilian municipalities by putting them up for sale at the
symbolic price of 1 euro. Although the interventions and policy choices adopted
cannot always be intended as destined for commons because, more
often as in Gangi and Cammarata, they relate to private properties, they
nevertheless still have some effects on the commons.
Since this strategy has been adopted by other municipalities in Italy and
has become a model for revitalizing declining communities, our goal is to
explore the functioning of the program, analyze the contractual schemes
and determine the involved parties and their rights and obligations
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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