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Die Belt and Road Initiative – Die neue Seidenstraße von China nach Duisburg
No full textDie Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) ist das aktuell größte Infrastruktur- und Investitionsprogramm weltweit. Die genauen Ziele der chinesischen Regierung und der weiteren Investor*innen sowie die geopolitischen, wirtschaftlichen und ökologischen Auswirkungen dieses Programms werden weltweit und kontrovers diskutiert. Vor diesem Hintergrund gibt das Kapitel einen Einblick in die aktuelle Diskussion zur BRI und vertieft diese am Beispiel Duisburgs. Konkret werden hierbei folgende Fragen behandelt:
Welche Ziele und Entwicklungen umfasst die BRI?
Wie wird die BRI finanziert und umgesetzt und welche weiteren Hintergründe sind zu beachten?
Wie gestaltet sich die Seidenstraße konkret am Beispiel Duisburg?
Wie lässt sich die BRI bisher bewerten
Territorial governance with limited sovereignty: how external control of space can change the role of the state
No full textINTRODUCTIONState sovereignty is questioned in an era marked by new forms of international collaborations alongside shifting power relations resulting from changing geopolitical dynamics. The advent of globalisation has eroded the state’s traditional role in unilaterally shaping territorial development. In some cases, this exclusive role has gradually eroded internally, through, for example, the promotion of decentralisation, and externally, by opening to international actors and interests. While variations exist among countries, the complexity of how sovereignty plays out has shifted as well as a result of the current international geopolitical landscape, giving rise to new territorial dynamics and governance processes. This chapter explores how the development of infrastructure corridors alters the state’s role in the era of globalisation. By examining two emblematic experiences – the Balkan Silk Road as the regional branch of the Chinese initiative known as the One Belt One Road (BRI) and the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) – the chapter aims to delve into the mechanisms of territorial governance brought forth by these distinct initiatives. The BRI, initiated by the Chinese government, aims to reshape the global geopolitical environment and facilitate the movement of goods worldwide. In contrast, SAGCOT is a public–private partnership (PPP) involving philanthropic foundations aiming to enhance agricultural productivity, improve food security, reduce poverty, and ensure environmental sustainability by commercialising smallholder agriculture. In this context, the chapter explores how state sovereignty is shifting and, in parts, may be undermined and examines the implications for territorial governance in the presence and influence of foreign actors. Through the lens of sovereignty, the chapter raises questions about the mechanisms employed by other actors to influence decisions related to territorial development and how they become integrated into the existing territorial governance. The choice of these cases allows an examination of the strategies employed by private versus public stakeholders to achieve their respective goals. The chapter concludes by considering the fragility of specific global contexts and their susceptibility to external influences on governance while highlighting the multitude of external stimuli to which a state may be subjected
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
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
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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