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Khushboo Chauhan
No full textKhushboo Chauhan is currently working as an Assistant Professor (Law) at Christ Academy Institute of Law, Bengaluru, India. I was awarded the Ph.D. and M. Phil. Degree by the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India. My doctoral thesis titled “Genocides: Law, Politics and History”, aimed to study genocide through the conjoint lenses of law, politics and history. There is an intention to investigate how the different discourses (legal, political and historic) give meanings, definitions and understanding to the term genocide and even the Holocaust and how they are used and condition (or limit and restrict or contribute) to the practical fulfilment of human rights in relation to the issue of genocide. I also hold a LL.M. in International Law and a LL. B. degree from Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla, India and a B.A. in Political Science and Psychology from St. Bede’s College, Shimla. My research interests include Genocide and Holocaust Studies, International Law, International Organisations, Human rights, International politics, Migration. Public Policy and Governance with emphasis on its legal dimensions, decentralization, global and local governance and civil society.https://commons.erau.edu/genocide-bios/1051/thumbnail.jp
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
FIGURE 4 in Indigofera himachalensis (Fabaceae: Indigofereae), a new species from Himachal Pradesh, India
No full textFIGURE 4. Indigofera himachalensis (from Chauhan & Pandey 5011) A. Habit, B. Leaflet (leftside)-abaxial, (rightside)-adaxial C. Standard, D. Wings, E. Keel, F. Calyx with gynoecium, G. Pod, H. Seed. Drawn by V. Chauhan.Published as part of Chauhan, Vibha, Pandey, Arun K. & Schaefer, Hanno, 2013, Indigofera himachalensis (Fabaceae: Indigofereae), a new species from Himachal Pradesh, India, pp. 43-49 in Phytotaxa 112 (2) on page 48, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.112.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/507885
Pragmatic Case Studies as a Source of Unity in Applied Psychology
No full textTo unify or not to unify applied psychology: that is the question. In this article we review pendulum swings in the historical efforts to answer this question—from a comprehensive, positivist, “top-down,” deductive yes between the 1930s and the early 60s, to a postmodern no since then. A rationale and proposal for a limited, “bottom-up,” inductive yes in applied psychology is then presented, employing a case-based paradigm that integrates both positivist and postmodern themes and components. This paradigm is labeled “pragmatic psychology” and, its specific use of case studies, the “Pragmatic Case Study Method” (“PCS Method”). We call for the creation of peer-reviewed journal-databases of pragmatic case studies as a foundational source of unifying applied knowledge in our discipline. As one example, the potential of the PCS Method for unifying different angles of theoretical regard is illustrated in an area of applied psychology, psychotherapy, via the case of Mrs. B. The article then turns to the broader historical and epistemological arguments for the unifying nature of the PCS Method in both applied and basic psychology.Peer reviewe
Dr. Edwin Wright Collection: Author Unknown
No full textNotes - The author relates several short stories about his neighbours including Alex McDonell, homesteading and life around Meanook and Athabasca (1 page
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe 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
Outcomes and predictors for early return of urinary continence after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy
No full textOutcomes and predictors for early return of urinary continence after robot-assisted radical prostatectom
Measurement of the ratio of branching fractions B(B0→K∗0γ )/B(B0s→φγ ) and the directCP asymmetry inB 0→K∗0γ
No full textThe ratio of branching fractions of the radiative B decays B0→K⁎0γ and B0s→ϕγ has been measured using an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb−1 of pp collision data collected by the LHCb experiment at a centre-of-mass energy of s√=7TeV. The value obtained is
B(B0→K⁎0γ)B(B0s→ϕγ)=1.23±0.06(stat.)±0.04(syst.)±0.10(fs/fd),
where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second is the experimental systematic uncertainty and the third is associated with the ratio of fragmentation fractions fs/fd. Using the world average value for B(B0→K⁎0γ), the branching fraction B(B0s→ϕγ) is measured to be (3.5±0.4)×10−5.
The direct CP asymmetry in B0→K⁎0γ decays has also been measured with the same data and found to be
ACP(B0→K⁎0γ)=(0.8±1.7(stat.)±0.9(syst.))%.
Both measurements are the most precise to date and are in agreement with the previous experimental results and theoretical expectations
Lipid based nanoparticles: SLN, NLC and MAD
No full textLipid-based nanosystems have been widely proposed as novel drug carrier systems since they have gained interest as matrixes able to dissolve and to control the delivery of active molecules, on one hand improving their solubility in water and their bioavailability and on the other reducing side-effects. Among nanoparticles based on lipids one can mention (a) solid lipid nanoparticles (SLN) that add up the benefit of colloidal lipid emulsions and those of solid matrix particles; (b) nanostructured lipid carriers (NLC), an evolution of SLN typified by a blend of a solid lipid matrix and a liquid lipid phase and (c) monooleine aqueous dispersions (MAD) that are heterogeneous systems made by a complex lyotropic liquid crystalline nanostructures such as micelles and lamellar, hexagonal, and cubic phases. Concerning their morphological characterization, X-ray diffraction and microscopy are used in order to obtain information about shape, inner structure, dimensions of powders and dispersions that could not otherwise be identified. Notably, this chapter provides an overview of the above mentioned lipid-based nanosystems loaded with some phytoconstituents studied by our research group
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