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The 21st Century Space Arms Race: Curtailing Heavenly Thunderbolts through the Shield of The ‘Peaceful Purposes’ Mantra
No full textThe 21st Century Space Arms Race: Curtailing Heavenly Thunderbolts through the Shield of The ‘Peaceful Purposes’ Mantra
No full textEvaluating Compliance with International Standards and Best Practices at the Mumbai Airport
No full textChhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA), ranked 28th in the world and 14th in Asia in the fiscal year 2022 in terms of passenger traffic is one of the busiest airports located in the financial capital of India. It is the second busiest airport in India after Delhi. With the privatisation of Mumbai’s CSMIA, the Indian airport industry saw a dramatic transformation in 2006. With the expansion of the new terminal, the economic value that the airport will hold in terms of trickling down economic benefits to the city and the financial growth opportunities will be immense. The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has created a thorough set of Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs) for airports in its Annex 14 to the Chicago Convention in order to guarantee the security, regularity, and effectiveness of international air navigation. The chapter attempts to provide an overview of ‘International Standards’ and ‘Best Practices’ at the CSMIA, specifically in the areas of ‘Security Regulations’, ‘Passenger Service’ and ‘Sustainability’. The chapter evaluates Mumbai Airport’s adherence to ICAO and IATA security protocols, including passenger screening, access controls, and threat detection. The second part of the chapter will focus on airport management along with global benchmarks for efficient processing, amenities, and overall traveller experience. The third part of the chapter delves into the initiatives to minimize environmental impact, optimize resource usage, and promote green operations. To achieve global net zero targets, the Mumbai airport will play a key role in accelerating renewable energy adoption, optimising resource consumption, and driving circular economy initiatives. The chapter is the outcome of an in-depth review of processes, and performance data against global benchmarks, feedback from airport management, airlines, regulatory authorities, and a first-hand assessment of operations, infrastructure, and passenger experience. The chapter also explores the issues associated with customs, human rights violations and the curious case of illegal wildlife trafficking that happens at the Mumbai Airport. The chapter provides a detailed understanding of Mumbai Airport’s performance and compliance with global best practices. The chapter will also guide the airport’s efforts to enhance security, passenger services, and sustainability and suggest mechanisms to promote coordination with regulatory authorities for the successful implementation of the improvement initiatives
Developing principles of corporate human rights due diligence for outer space use and exploration: A critical evaluation
No full textCorporations are predicted to dominate outer space use and exploration for the foreseeable future. With tentative plans in development for humans to live and work permanently on celestial bodies, what responsibilities will corporations have to observe human rights? It is thought that reform of outer space law is needed to embrace non-state actors to not only delineate their precise legal status but also their rights and responsibilities in outer space. Not only would this pronouncement of rights and responsibilities provide transparency and certainty for corporations, but also for ‘humankind’ as business enterprises such as SpaceX, Blue Origin and the Sierra Nevada Corporation endeavour to make the first leap to establish human communities on celestial bodies. This article will consider the extent to which corporations will need to embed human rights due diligence in their activities on celestial bodies and what measures they will need to adopt to assess, mitigate and remediate human rights violations
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
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