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BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS: TOWARDS GREATER RESPONSIBILITY OF BUSINESS ENTERPRISES AND ACCESS TO REMEDIES IN A LEGALLY BINDING TREATY?
No full textLa tesi esamina questioni relative alla responsabilità delle imprese e all'accesso alla giustizia per vittime di violazioni dei diritti umani, commesse da imprese, per suggerire misure e proposte da inserire in un trattato giuridicamente vincolante in materia di imprese e diritti umani, la cui negoziazione è attualmente in corso sotto l'egida del Consiglio per i Diritti Umani. Conformemente alla Risoluzione 26/9 del Consiglio per i diritti umani, un gruppo di lavoro intergovernativo è stato incaricato di elaborare uno strumento internazionale giuridicamente vincolante per regolamentare, nel diritto internazionale dei diritti umani, le attività delle imprese multinazionali e altre imprese.
Ricostruendo il background storico (Capitolo 1) e il percorso che ha condotto all’adozione della Risoluzione 26/9 (Capitolo 2), la tesi analizza alcune delle questioni ancora aperte in materia, partendo dalla responsabilità delle imprese e se queste possiedano personalità giuridica internazionale e di conseguenza se le imprese possono essere considerate duty-bearers nel futuro trattato (Capitolo 3). In secondo luogo, la tesi analizza la questione di come migliorare l'accesso alla giustizia per le vittime di violazioni dei diritti umani e superare ostacoli esistenti (Capitolo 4). Infine, sono proposte alcune alcune misure e modelli di riferimento da considerare nel futuro trattato, al fine di colmare alcune delle lacune ancora esistenti in materia.The thesis examines key issues relating to the responsibility of business entities and access to justice for victims of business-related human rights violations, to suggest measures and proposals to be incorporated in a prospective legally binding treaty on business and human rights, whose negotiation and drafting is in progress under the aegis of the UN Human Rights Council. Under the terms of Human Rights Council Resolution 26/9, an Open-Ended Intergovernmental Working Group was mandated to elaborate an international legally binding instrument to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises.
After recalling the historical background (Chapter 1) and the process leading to the adoption of Resolution 26/9 (Chapter 2), the thesis analyses the outstanding issues regarding the responsibility of business enterprises and whether corporations may potentially be considered as duty-bearers in the prospective binding treaty (Chapter 3). The thesis turns to the question about how to overcome existing barriers and improve access to justice and judicial remedies for victims of business-related human rights abuses (Chapter 4). The thesis concludes with measures and models of reference to be considered in the prospective treaty, to close the so called “accountability and governance” gaps
Project assessment and economic and financial sustainability determination for the Interior design
No full textThe proactive economic and financial sustainability estimation for the Interior design has to be centered on an organized structure of knowledge in the project planning and development, in the light of the consciousness that the Project assessment science works in the hard field of the ex-ante calculation of prices. The paper will revolve around the need of introducing a structured system of principles in this field, as the valuation process is a key element for the risk management and it is important to apply internationally recognized valuation standards
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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