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Reaching the Unreached: Community Based Village Knowledge Centres and Village Resources Centres
No full textThe book explores the history, initiatives and achievements of the M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF). These include the bio-village initiative, designed to encourage the development of market driven on-farm and non-farm enterprises, and unskilled to skilled work through the sustainable use of natural resources; as well as the Village Through the VKCs (Village Knowledge Centres). The aim is to bridge the digital divide and thus address social exclusion and poverty associated with it. Through Village Resource Centres and VKC information and technology communication for development (ICT4D) strategies many communities in India have been positively impacted
Information Technology: Equalizer or Separator of Developing Countries?
No full textThe author discusses about the Information technology scenario in developing countries
China promotes traditional medicine
Full text linkThe author reports the promotional activities undertaken by China in the field of traditional medicine
Is mathematics research in India on the decline?
Full text linkIn this paper the author analyses the research dynamics of Mathematics research in India using the multidisciplinary database Science Citation Index®
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Correspondence on "Diabetes Research in India"
No full textThis is a correspondence generated by the article "Diabetes research in India" between the author, A. Subiah Arunachalam and Rosalind Marita
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Is Mathematics Research in India on the Decline?
No full textIn this article, the author argues that the number of scientific research papers published from India is on the decline. The conclusions are drawn upon data on the number of papers indexed in MathSciNet, the web database of the American Mathematical Society, covering mathematics, statistics, operational research and related fields
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
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Use of SCI-based Publication Counts - Correspondence
No full textThis is a correspondence on an article by Karandikar and Sunder and an article by Pichappan (both published in Current Science 2003, issue 85) that present some misgivings about the use of Science Citation Index-based publication counts. Arunachalam discusses why the stance taken, the total number of papers published from a country should not be used as a science indicator, is extreme
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