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The 2020 constitutional amendments : a legal analysis
Get PDFIn this article the author discusses constitutional amendments that took place in Malta in the year 2020 through Act No. XLIII of 2020, on a factual and legal basis. The author goes on to create a comparative analysis of the new amendments with the old legislation and seeks to identify key changes which maybe advantages over their predecessors, while also pre-empting any difficulties that may arise in the future, whether it be in the short-term or the long-term.peer-reviewe
Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals. European Parliament, Brussels, A1GA. Wednesday 18 september 2013, 15.00hrs : speech
No full textEl texto es la transcripción de un discurso del Tonio Borg, Doctor en Derecho, en el encuentro del Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals (http://www.animalwelfareintergroup.eu/), que tuvo lugar en el Parlamento europeo el 18 de septiembre de 2013. En el texto, el autor destaca una lista de metas y propuestas en relación a aumentar el Bienestar Animal en la UE. El ponente destaca la necesidad de reforzar la educación, la aplicación y la reorientación del foco de atención del Bienestar Animal, para lograr un acercamiento más completo, "holístico", al mismo. Dicho acercamiento precisa ser proactivo y preventivo a la vez, más que meramente reactivo, como hasta ahora lo ha sido. El autor acentúa que este nuevo acercamiento, favorecerá el Bienestar Animal, al mismo tiempo que aumentará la competitividad de Europa en el sector agrícola y ayudará a promover la cohesión entre los países miembros de la Unión.This text is a transcription of presentation made by Dr. iur. Tonio Borg at the meeting of the Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals (http://www.animalwelfareintergroup.eu/) to the European Parliament on September 18, 2013. In the text, the author outlines a list of challenges and proposals in relation to improving animal welfare in the EU. The speaker highlights the need to improve education, enforcement and a reorientation of focus in order to achieve 'a more holistic' approach to animal welfare. The approach is intended to be proactive and preventive rather than a more reactive approach which has frequently been in force. The author stresses that this new approach would favor animal welfare while improving Europe's competitiveness in agricultural markets, and help foster cohesiveness within the Unio
Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals. European Parliament, Brussels, A1GA. Wednesday 18 september 2013, 15.00hrs : speech
Get PDFEl texto es la transcripción de un discurso del Tonio Borg, Doctor en Derecho, en el encuentro del Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals (http://www.animalwelfareintergroup.eu/), que tuvo lugar en el Parlamento europeo el 18 de septiembre de 2013. En el texto, el autor destaca una lista de metas y propuestas en relación a aumentar el Bienestar Animal en la UE. El ponente destaca la necesidad de reforzar la educación, la aplicación y la reorientación del foco de atención del Bienestar Animal, para lograr un acercamiento más completo, "holístico", al mismo. Dicho acercamiento precisa ser proactivo y preventivo a la vez, más que meramente reactivo, como hasta ahora lo ha sido. El autor acentúa que este nuevo acercamiento, favorecerá el Bienestar Animal, al mismo tiempo que aumentará la competitividad de Europa en el sector agrícola y ayudará a promover la cohesión entre los países miembros de la Unión.This text is a transcription of presentation made by Dr. iur. Tonio Borg at the meeting of the Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals (http://www.animalwelfareintergroup.eu/) to the European Parliament on September 18, 2013. In the text, the author outlines a list of challenges and proposals in relation to improving animal welfare in the EU. The speaker highlights the need to improve education, enforcement and a reorientation of focus in order to achieve 'a more holistic' approach to animal welfare. The approach is intended to be proactive and preventive rather than a more reactive approach which has frequently been in force. The author stresses that this new approach would favor animal welfare while improving Europe's competitiveness in agricultural markets, and help foster cohesiveness within the Unio
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
The Office of State Advocate and the case
No full textIn this article Prof. Tonio Borg examines the constitutional functions
and powers of the office of State Advocate introduced in 2019. In his
view it is evident that the idea behind the establishment of this office
was to have an autonomous guardian safeguarding the legality of
State action in the public interest; and yet in practice , but also
according to recent jurisprudence, the office has been reduced to that
of legal counsel to the government of the day; he argues that the
security of tenure granted to the holder of such office is proof that
the intention of Parliament was to create an impartial guardian who
can take spontaneous action against any illegality of State action.peer-reviewe
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