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Ayurveda’s Strategic Leap: Budget 2026 and the Birth of Three AIIA-Ayurveda Colleges
No full textThe Union Budget 2026 marks a pivotal moment for Ayurveda in India, announcing the establishment of three new AIIA-Ayurveda colleges under the aegis of the All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA). This initiative reflects the government’s commitment to mainstreaming traditional medicine within the national healthcare and education framework. Ayurveda, long recognized for its holistic approach to health and wellness, now stands at a crossroads—balancing ancient wisdom with modern institutional expansion. The creation of these colleges signifies more than infrastructural growth; it represents a strategic investment in capacity building, research, and global positioning of Ayurveda. Each institution is envisioned to serve as a hub for advanced clinical practice, interdisciplinary research, and standardized curriculum development aligned with NCISM guidelines. By integrating modern pedagogical methods, digital tools, and evidence-based research, these colleges aim to strengthen Ayurveda’s credibility and accessibility both nationally and internationally. The Budget 2026 allocation also underscores the importance of equitable healthcare delivery, with these colleges expected to enhance regional access to Ayurvedic education and services. Furthermore, the initiative is poised to generate employment opportunities, foster innovation in integrative medicine, and contribute to India’s health diplomacy by positioning Ayurveda as a global wellness brand. In conclusion, the birth of three AIIA-Ayurveda colleges under Budget 2026 represents a transformative step in institutionalizing Ayurveda. It highlights the government’s vision of blending tradition with modernity, ensuring that Ayurveda evolves as a robust, research-driven, and globally relevant system of medicine. This development situates Ayurveda at a critical juncture—where policy, education, and healthcare converge to shape its future trajectory
Bridging Ancient Wisdom and Modern Learning: The Shift in Ayurvedic Curriculum and NCISM Innovations
Get PDFAyurvedic education has undergone a significant transformation from the traditional Gurukula system to the structured curriculum established by the National Commission for Indian System of Medicine (NCISM). The Gurukula system emphasized holistic learning, ethical training, and experiential wisdom, fostering practitioners deeply connected to Ayurveda’s principles. In contrast, the NCISM framework introduces standardized degrees, scientific integration, research-based validation, and digital tools to modernize Ayurvedic education while ensuring its global relevance. However, challenges remain in preserving the contextual richness of traditional methods. This article explores the evolution, benefits, and limitations of both systems while proposing a harmonious blend of tradition and innovation to maintain Ayurveda’s authenticity in contemporary healthcare. By balancing classical wisdom with modern advancements, Ayurvedic education can continue to nurture skilled practitioners who uphold its legacy while contributing to global health paradigms
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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