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La "sicurezza dei confini" nelle relazioni tra Unione Europea e Azerbaigian
No full textPoche questioni hanno assunto negli ultimi anni tanta rilevanza come il concetto di border security. La “sicurezza dei confini” ha infatti progressivamente ricoperto un ruolo primario nella definizione delle strategie per la sicurezza interna di vari paesi, portando alla formazione di un curioso paradosso: a fronte del recupero del concetto di “confine” per la sicurezza di un territorio, si assiste a un radicale mutamento della natura e delle modalità di minaccia dello stesso. Non si tratta infatti di tradizionali attacchi militari, ma di sfide e rischi di tipo transazionale, in grado di oltrepassare più o meno agilmente i confini nazionali e coinvolgendo nei loro effetti numerosi territori. Crimine organizzato, terrorismo internazionale e immigrazione illegale sono alcune tra le sfide che pongono più problemi alle tradizionali capacità di controllo degli stati, sfruttando a proprio favore progressi tecnologici legati in particolar modo alla mobilità. Questo capitolo analizzerà la rilevanza della sicurezza dei confini per l’Unione europea e, seguendo l’impostazione del libro, indagherà l’importanza della tematica nelle relazioni con l’Azerbaigian
Verso il nuovo Concetto Strategico: il ruolo delle missioni per il futuro della Nato
Full text linkBoth Nato’s survival and ongo-ing relevance after the Cold War are strictly linked to its military missions. On the one hand, the missions have been instrumen-tal in defining Nato’s new role, legitimacy and effectiveness. On the other, the future of the Alliance seems to be increas-ingly related to the evolution of one mission, namely Isaf in Afghanistan. Furthermore, many issues that have been debated in view of the drafting of the New Strategic Concept – e.g. Nato’s regional vs global stance, or the new meaning of the Article 5 of the Atlantic Pact – depend on missions and on their developments.
Concerning the missions, there are two aspects today that can be considered mayor chal-lenges for the future of Nato: the problems arising from bur-den-sharing and those related to Eu-Nato cooperation. This paper offers an analysis of these two interrelated issues and provides a clue to evaluate one aspect of Nato’s New Stra-tegic Concept
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
EU’s foreign policy and migration. A political and normative assessment
No full textThis chapter summarizes the results of the analysis carried out in the book’s case studies, further elaborating on their consequences for the EU’s foreign policy and its international role. The first part identifies “externalization in emergency mode” and the resurfacing of the EU’s “derivative power” as the main policy developments that characterize the external dimension of the EU’s governance of migration after 2015. The following section analyses the justice claims embedded in these policy developments, highlighting a normative balance of the EU’s migration system of governance leaning towards the conception of justice as non-domination at the expense of impartiality and mutual recognition. The final part explores the impact of the growing migration agenda on the EU’s foreign policy and international role, arguing that the former is contributing to the “normalization” of the EU’s structural foreign policy, the transformation of its external image, and to a weakened role as supporter of the liberal world order
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
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