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Interview with Amitav Banerji: Commonwealth Oral History Project
No full textInterview with Amitav Banerji, conducted 21st September 2015. s part of the Commonwealth Oral History Project. The project aims to produce a unique digital research resource on the oral history of the Commonwealth since 1965 through sixty oral history interviews with leading figures in the recent history of the organisation. It will provide an essential research tool for anyone investigating the history of the Commonwealth and will serve to promote interest in and understanding of the organisation. Banerji, Amitav. 1953-. Born in India. Educated at Georgetown University (BA) and Delhi School of Economics (MA). Joined Indian Foreign Service in 1975. Private Secretary to the Indian Foreign Minister, 1979-1982. Joined Commonwealth Secretariat in 1990. Special Adviser in Commonwealth Political Affairs Division from 1990 to 2000. Chief of Staff to the Secretary-General, 2000-09. Director of Political Affairs, 2009-2015. Projects Director, Global Leadership Foundation, 2015-
'Of Lonely Ghosts': The Primacy Of Responsible Government In Comcare v Banerji
No full textThe High Court ruled on the compatibility of legislation with the constitutionally implied freedom of political communication (implied freedom) for the third time this year in Comcare v Banerji (Banerji). The case is another example of the significant work that the implied freedom is expected to do in resolving fundamental questions as to the correct balance to be struck between sensitive policy objectives and democratic principles. Banerji concerned a Commonwealth public servant, Michaela Banerji (the respondent), who, in September 2013, had her seven-year employment with the (then) Commonwealth Department of Immigration and Citizenship (the Department) terminated. This followed an investigation commenced in May 2012 into Ms Banerji's use of a Twitter account to publish highly critical comments of the Department, government and opposition immigration policy, politicians and her colleagues. Ms Banerji used a pseudonym when tweeting, but did publish "other identifying information". Section 13 of the Public Service Act 1999 (Cth) (PSA) set out the terms of the Australian Public Service (APS) Code of Conduct with subs (11) stating that APS employees "must at all times behave in a way that upholds the APS Values and the integrity and good reputation of the APS". Section 13(11) operated alongside s 10(1)(a) of the PSA, which, in turn, defined "APS Values" as including the specification that "the APS is apolitical, performing its functions in an impartial and professional manner". Further, s 15(1) of the PSA established that an APS employee found to have breached the Code of Conduct could be subject to a specified discretionary sanction ranging in severity from termination of employment to a reprimand
Efficacy and safety of indacaterol/glycopyrronium in Japanese patients with COPD: a subgroup analysis from the SHINE study [Corrigendum]
No full textHashimoto S, Ikeuchi H, Murata S, Kitawaki T, Ikeda K, Banerji D. Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis. 2016;11:2543–2551. On page 2547, Figure 5, x-axis, the dose mentioned in the label for IND should have read “150 μg od” instead of “110 μg od” and the dose for GLY should have read “50 μg od” instead of “110 μg od”.Read the original article here. 
Diffusive author(s), cohesive author: Analysis of S/N (1994)
No full textThis study indicates the ways in which various aspects of the author(s) are brought forth in Dumb type’s performance art, the S/N production. Previous research has suggested a non-hierarchical organization of Dumb type and the absence of a “privileged author” in Dumb type’s collaborative work, S/N. However, the results that I have investigated from member’s interviews on the creative process of S/N along with my analysis of the recorded images of S/N, indicate a different aspect of the author(s). First, S/N was created through, so to speak, the collective ideas of the members of Dumb type. Further, S/N has at least nine quotations from previous performances, installations, and printed writings, besides the work-in-progress technique. Explicating one of the “author functions” as given by Michel Foucault, each text has plural subjects of the author. However, it has been revealed from members’ interviews that Teiji Furuhashi had a decision-making role in selecting the members’ ideas within the performance. Since then, S/N has had plural subjects of creation; however, Furuhashi is one of the subjects of creation along with the “privileged author.” S/N has plural authors (diffusive authors) yet at the same time, it has a “privileged author,” Teiji Furuhashi (cohesive author)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Heavily reddened type 1 quasars at z > 2 – I. Evidence for significant obscured black hole growth at the highest quasar luminosities
No full textWe present a new population of z > 2 dust-reddened, type 1 quasars with 0.5 ≲ E(B − V) ≲ 1.5, selected using near-infrared (NIR) imaging data from the UKIDSS-LAS (Large Area Survey), ESO-VHS (European Southern Observatory-VISTA Hemisphere Survey) and WISE surveys. NIR spectra obtained using the Very Large Telescope for 24 new objects bring our total sample of spectroscopically confirmed hyperluminous (>1013 L⊙), high-redshift dusty quasars to 38. There is no evidence for reddened quasars having significantly different Hα equivalent widths relative to unobscured quasars. The average black hole masses (∼109–1010 M⊙) and bolometric luminosities (∼1047 erg s−1) are comparable to the most luminous unobscured quasars at the same redshift, but with a tail extending to very high luminosities of ∼1048 erg s−1. 66 per cent of the reddened quasars are detected at >3σ at 22 μm by WISE. The average 6-μm rest-frame luminosity is log10(L6 μm/ erg s−1) = 47.1 ± 0.4, making the objects among the mid-infrared brightest active galactic nuclei (AGN) currently known. The extinction-corrected space density estimate now extends over three magnitudes (−30 < Mi < −27) and demonstrates that the reddened quasar luminosity function is significantly flatter than that of the unobscured quasar population at z = 2–3. At the brightest magnitudes, Mi ≲ −29, the space density of our dust-reddened population exceeds that of unobscured quasars. A model where the probability that a quasar becomes dust reddened increases at high luminosity is consistent with the observations and such a dependence could be explained by an increase in luminosity and extinction during AGN-fuelling phases. The properties of our obscured type 1 quasars are distinct from the heavily obscured, Compton-thick AGN that have been identified at much fainter luminosities and we conclude that they likely correspond to a brief evolutionary phase in massive galaxy formation
Galaxy Zoo:reproducing galaxy morphologies via machine learning
No full textWe present morphological classifications obtained using machine learning for objects in SDSS DR6 that have been classified by Galaxy Zoo into three classes, namely early types, spirals and point sources/artifacts. An artificial neural network is trained on a subset of objects classified by the human eye and we test whether the machine learning algorithm can reproduce the human classifications for the rest of the sample. We find that the success of the neural network in matching the human classifications depends crucially on the set of input parameters chosen for the machine-learning algorithm. The colours and parameters associated with profile-fitting are reasonable in separating the objects into three classes. However, these results are considerably improved when adding adaptive shape parameters as well as concentration and texture. The adaptive moments, concentration and texture parameters alone cannot distinguish between early type galaxies and the point sources/artifacts. Using a set of twelve parameters, the neural network is able to reproduce the human classifications to better than 90% for all three morphological classes. We find that using a training set that is incomplete in magnitude does not degrade our results given our particular choice of the input parameters to the network. We conclude that it is promising to use machine- learning algorithms to perform morphological classification for the next generation of wide-field imaging surveys and that the Galaxy Zoo catalogue provides an invaluable training set for such purposes
Was sollten angehende Lehrkräfte über computerbasierte Simulationen wissen? Und was wissen sie tatsächlich? Eine epistemologische Perspektive im Vergleich zu Experimenten und Animationen
No full textKirchhoff A, Schwedler S. Was sollten angehende Lehrkräfte über computerbasierte Simulationen wissen? Und was wissen sie tatsächlich? Eine epistemologische Perspektive im Vergleich zu Experimenten und Animationen. In: Huwer J, Wilke T, Banerji A, eds. Progress in Digitalisation in Chemistry Education 2024 Digitales Lehren und Lernen an Hochschule und Schule im Fach Chemie. Münster, New York: Waxmann; 2025: 49-54
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
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