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The essential security interest exception clause in international investment agreements and arbitration:from an exception to a norm?
No full textThe essential security interest exception clause in international investment agreements and arbitration:from an exception to a norm?
No full textDistance Iconicity and Quantity Iconicity in Literary Image Translations: Taking Four Versions of Bian Cheng for Example
Get PDFIconicity is the pursuit in image translation of literary works. The distance iconicity and quantity iconicity can reveal the arrangement of image construction and its interpretation as well. In the four English versions of the local novel Bian Cheng by Shen Congwen, both the distance iconicity and quantity iconicity best illustrate the arrangements of image interpretation and reconstruction of translated versions
On Literary Image Transmission from the Perspective of Equivalence----Taking the English Versions of Bian Cheng by Shen Congwen for Example
No full textIn recent years, the study of literary image transmission has become one of the hot topics in the field of translation. This article will try to analyze the image transmission in four English versions of Bian Cheng from the perspective of functional equivalence and find out that stylistic equivalence and textual equivalence played an important role in image transmission.
GVCHAP Software
No full textAvailable for Linux and Windows.GVCHAP is a computing pipeline for genomic prediction and variance component estimation using haplotypes and SNP markers.Prakapenka, Dzianis; Wang, Chunkao; Liang, Zuoxiang; Bian, Cheng; Tan, Cheng; Da, Yang. (2020). GVCHAP Software. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, 10.3389/fgene.2020.00282
National security in national and international investment law: the case of Italy
No full textOver the last decade, several States introduced or expanded legislation regarding the protection of national security interests vis-à-vis foreign investment, mostly adopting a selective approach toward inward FDIs. In the EU, Italy has been at the forefront of such trend, arguably in light of the increased FDI flows into strategic sectors such as high-tech, agriculture and transport. Accordingly, Italy currently maintains both a relatively tight FDI screening procedure and a strict interpretation of the concept of ‘national security’.
This latter has evolved significantly under Italian law over the past decade, partly to align to technological and geopolitical developments. When the notion of ‘golden powers’ was introduced, in 2012, next to that already existing of ‘golden shares’, it resulted at first in a definitory seism over the relevant Italian legal framework, with debate spurring for some time regarding the interpretation of core notions (and their combination) such as ‘activities’ of ‘strategic importance’ for the ‘national defense’ and ‘security system’. However, the golden powers regime has been gradually equipped with legal instruments that filled the existing gaps, at the price however of an arguably cumbersome legal framework.
Nevertheless, the concept of national security in Italy remains broad, with great discretion of the government to exercise its golden powers. Arguably because of this, in recent years the number of notifications and proceedings under the golden powers’ legal framework has increased dramatically.
Conversely, in the Italian international treaty practice, including the 2003 update of Italy’s model Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT), the national security provision has become broader.
In conclusion, while the balance between national security concerns and an agile business legal framework may not yet be fully attained, the latest updates of the law demonstrate a positive trend in this regard
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
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