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The External dimension of the area of freedom, security and justice
No full textThe book is divided into six parts: the first concerns the institutional and legal framework and includes three essays: the genesis of the external dimension of the AFSJ; the Institutional setting and the legal toolkit; a legal perspective of the main problems of the EU external action in the JHA domain. The second part includes three studies; the first is on the principle exclusive competence as applied to the readmission agreements; the second concerns the interaction between the external dimension of the AFSJ and other EU Policies, such as the development cooperation and the common foreign and security policies. The third essay focuses on the Mediterranean dimension of the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice. The third part of the book concerns the sector of migration law, which is one of the subject matters of the AFSJ: attention is devoted to readmission agreements and to the problems of externalization of migration policy. The fourth part of the book revolves around international cooperation and in particular the case of counter-terrorism measures. This part is well connected to the second deliverable of the research project. Three essays cover this issue: the first concerns the EU-US cooperation in the justice and home affairs domain; the second is a broad study of the EU bilateral and multilateral cooperation agreements in the concerned area and the third essay covers considers the EU role as an actor in the global security arena. The fifth part of the book deals with civil and criminal cooperation. It encompasses three studies: the first concerns the EU’s Contribution to Private International Law; the second discusses about new ways of sharing competence between the EU institutions and the Member States in the area of civil cooperation. The third contribution considers the European Union and the implementation of international norms in criminal matters. The final section draws the overall conclusions of the book and addresses the role of the EU as an international actor in the JHA domain: potential, progress and limitations
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
Bsx, an evolutionary conserved Brain Specific homeoboX gene expressed in the septum, epiphysis, mammilary bodies and arcuate nucleus
No full textShaping and orchestrating the genetic program involved in embryonic modelling of brain structures is a major function played by homeobox containing genes. Recently, analysis of conditional mouse mutants has pointed out additional roles in supporting adult brain functional activities. During a search for novel homeobox genes in the public released genomic sequences derived by the Human and Mouse genome projects, we were able to identify the mouse homologue of the Drosophila brain specific homeobox gene. We named it Bsx and characterized its expression in embryonic and post-natal mouse brain. Interestingly, Bsx shows an expression pattern restricted to a few specific developing brain structures. Pineal gland, telencephalic septum, hypothalamic pre-mammillary body and arcuate nucleus are the only brain structures where we detected Bsx transcriptional activity, which is maintained also after birth. In particular, Bsx might be considered an important molecular marker for early embryonic stages of epiphysis development, being specifically expressed in this neural structure from E9.5 onwards
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
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