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When Can Finance be Called “Islamic”? Reflections on the Relation between Islamic Ethics, Law and Economics
No full textLaw as a guide for the believer; homo economicus islamicus; unlawful gains v. lawful contract
Application of the Legal principles of Islamic Finance to Our Legal System
No full textThe article examines the main aspects related to the application of Islamic finance principles in the Italian legal system. The analysis concerns the comparison between Italian regulations and the principles of Islamic finance, the consistency of these principles with the mandatory rules of the Italian legal system, with particular reference to the types of financial products and the public offering of financial products that are inspired by the rules of Islamic finance
The EU cooperation policy with northern african mediterranean countries and the middle east
No full textThis paper reconsiders the EU Cooperation Policy with the Northern African Countries and the Middle East, that started in the Sixties of the last century on a bilateral basis, moving into a multilateral approach in the Seventies and even more importantly in the Mid-Nineties. It reviews the Barcelona process started in 1995 and the following efforts to improve and enlarge the cooperation attempts with the above mentioned countries on a multilateral basis. The two new cooperation instruments that were set up in the 2000s, that is the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) and the Union for the Mediterranean, are accurately illustrated and explained, also considering the last reforms made to the ENP. After a brief economic investigation on the trade flows across the Mediterranean Sea in 2019, some concluding remarks are made. In particular it is emphasized that multiple instruments are now used in the EU cooperation policy with the two above mentioned Mediterranean regions, both bilateral and multilateral. This richness of instruments on the one hand makes EU able to differentiate intensity and size of the cooperation from country to country in correlation with the progress made in political relations but on the other hand it makes more difficult to manage them and can well give rise to inefficiencies due to lack of coordination
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Faith in travel
No full textThis opening chapter of the volume “Religious tourism and sustainability in the MENA region” explores the religious tourism sector, highlighting the importance of a structured theoretical and methodological framework to support its growth. It focuses on training competent professionals who are sensitive to cultural and spiritual dimensions in order to promote intercultural, ethical, and respectful tourism. The goal is to transform religious tourism into a space for encounter and dialogue in an increasingly globalized world
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