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Alla ricerca dell'invisibilità perduta: le "sentenze senza autore" nelle Corti supreme di Stati Uniti e Canada.
No full textIn special circumstances US and Canada Supreme Courts avoid the
identification of the opinion writers. The paper aims to pinpoint the reasons
of the lessened polarity between closed and disclosed opinion delivery
process in contemporary constitutional Courts. The article supposes a
stepwise emergence of hybrid models which leave Courts quite free to
promote or discourage individually authorized opinions depending on the
function from time to time performed. The pliability of these models
effectively protects the legitimacy of constitutional courts.
L’esistenza di straordinarie circostanze in cui la Corte suprema statunitense
e quella canadese escludono l’autorialità delle decisioni, sollecita il
comparatista a riflettere tanto sulle ragioni dell’attenuata polarizzazione
fra trasparenza e segretezza nelle dinamiche procedurali degli organi di
giustizia costituzionale contemporanei, quanto sulla possibile comparsa di
modelli ibridi, nel cui ambito operano corti sostanzialmente libere di individuare
la formula deliberativa più adatta all’attività di volta in volta
compiuta. La flessibilità di questi modelli consente di tutelare in maniera
efficace la legittimazione delle corti costituzionali
Ethical implications of genetic susceptibility testing: NeuroGenEthics and the "Angelina Jolie effect"
No full textAn increasing interest in genetics of aggressive behavior has developed in literature over time and specifically regarding genes involved in dopaminergic and serotonergic systems, sex steroids and glucocorticoids. The same could be said for mood and anxiety disorders, psychosis, schizophrenia syndromes and antisocial and criminal behavior. This has led to the idea that it was possible to make genetic tests applicable in psychiatry with the ability to define a risk profile. However, the results obtained to date are mostly contradictory, un-replicable and lack standardized protocols and the legal frames are not clear. The results found were that there wasn't a simple mendelian transmission or connection of a few genes. Today, we have to overcome the genetic determinism and generalize it in an interdisciplinary perspective without neglecting the ethical, legal and social issues and without slipping into a sort of "Angelina Jolie effect"
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
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