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Analysis of the International Horizontal Judicial System’s Intervention in Sovereign Disputes: ratios without spine
Full text linkArohi Kashyap analyses the level of implementation and intervention of the International Horizontal Judicial System in sovereign disputes, referring in particular to the International Court of Justice and the Permanent Court of Arbitration. The paper considers the binding and horizontal nature of the International Judicial System, with detailed reference to three important international sovereign dispute cases, i.e. Nicaragua v. USA, Cambodia v. Thailand (Temple of Preah Vihear case) and the South China Sea Dispute. The author argues that the judicial bodies in international law give judgments and awards without any legal force or backing for implementation making the judgments no more than strict guidelines. The paper highlights the importance of an enforceable International Judicial System in sovereign disputes and suggests that the present system cannot fulfil this requirement
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
AROHI: Advanced Road Optimization & Harvesting Intelligence for Sustainable Smart Infrastructure
No full textThis research paper introduces AROHI (Advanced Road Optimization & Harvesting Intelligence), an innovative interdisciplinary framework that transforms conventional highways into intelligent, energy-generating infrastructure systems. By seamlessly integrating three distinct energy harvesting technologies—piezoelectric tiles, electromagnetic induction coils, and nano-processed solar surfaces—with AI-driven traffic optimization and blockchain-based data validation, AROHI proposes a sustainable solution for renewable energy generation and smart transportation management. The system demonstrates a theoretical energy generation capacity of 365 kWh per kilometer per day, representing a significant advancement over existing single-source implementations like France's Wattway and Netherlands' SolaRoad. Through comprehensive mathematical modeling and simulation analysis using MATLAB/Simulink and Python-based Monte Carlo methods, the study presents detailed energy yield calculations, cost-benefit analysis showing a 6-8 year ROI with an estimated installation cost of 250,000 USD per kilometer, and environmental impact assessments indicating 85-100 tons of CO₂ offset annually per kilometer. The framework employs a novel Markov Chain-based predictive engine for real-time traffic forecasting and dynamic parameter adjustment, maintaining system efficiency above 90%, while a groundbreaking Proof-of-Efficiency blockchain consensus mechanism ensures transparent, tamper-proof data integrity with less than 1% energy overhead. Significantly, the core technology has already been successfully applied and tested on a small-scale platform, demonstrating practical feasibility. Building on this success, comprehensive arrangements have been made to develop a fully functional working prototype in December 2024, which is expected to validate the theoretical framework and confirm real-world operational performance. This work addresses critical research gaps in sustainable infrastructure by presenting the first comprehensive integration of hybrid energy harvesting, artificial intelligence optimization, decentralized blockchain validation, and IoT-enabled monitoring in a unified roadway architecture, offering a viable pathway toward carbon-neutral intelligent cities and self-sustaining transportation networks
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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