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Democracia y conocimiento
Get PDFDado que la democracia es un método colectivo de toma de decisiones, ¿disponemos de razones para exigir a la ciudadanía que acepte las decisiones que se toman democráticamente? Y si es así, ¿de qué tipo de razones disponemos? Estas preguntas pueden caracterizarse como problemas de la autoridad de la democracia y ambas preguntas no son baladíes. El término 'democracia' es uno que inflama las emociones y cohesiona individuos. Por la democracia se escribe, se marcha, se exige. Existe una intuición fuerte en muchos de nosotros que nos hace adherirnos de manera acrítica al espíritu democrático. La democracia nos parece indiscutiblemente legítima. Es éste un ideal regulativo en muchas de nuestras sociedades y una aspiración escasas veces conquistada a plenitud. No pocas ocasiones afirmamos que las nuestras son democracias débiles o en formación. Lo cierto es que ni la democracia es un método incuestionable, ni solemos tener claras las razones -si las hay- de la legitimidad de su autoridad. Entender los límites, las ventajas y los problemas que genera el método democrático es un asunto ineludible y de suma trascendencia
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Diseño institucional e innovaciones democráticas
Get PDFLas instituciones modelan, constriñen e inciden en nuestra vida social, hacen posible que la conducta sea estable, recurrente, repetitiva y pautada en muchos ámbitos de nuestra vida tanto privada como pública: instituciones de familia y parentesco, educativas, económicas, políticas, culturales y de estratificación. Ahora bien, hablar de diseño institucional es hablar de un cambio social intencionado, el cual se encuentra impugnado a partir de distintos modelos de transformación social: accidente, evolución e intención. Desde finales del siglo pasado, Robert E. Goodin promovió el estudio académico e interdisciplinario acerca del diseño institucional, sus aportaciones han sido fundacionales para esta disciplina en nuestra era. Es por ello que el objetivo de este libro es reflexionar sobre las instituciones y sus alcances en el contexto iberoamericano; sobre posibles nuevos enfoques en el diseño institucional para apuntalar y fortalecer nuestras democracias; sobre los desafíos actuales a los que se enfrenta el diseño institucional y también reparar en dos ámbitos de diseño que suelen estar eclipsados en la academia: el diseño de instituciones científicas y culturales, y el diseño urbano
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Virtudes y vicios argumentativos: A veinte años de Vértigos argumentales, de Carlos Pereda
Get PDFThe aim of this paper is to analyze the importance and relevance of the Carlos Pereda’s thought in argumentation theory, focusing on his work entitled Vértigos Argumentales, which has as its central purpose the defense of an emphatic reason, not deprived of uncertainty, but neither of objectivity. Keeping in mind that Carlos Pereda’s theory of argumentation is close to his conception of rationality, the author turns to the analysis of issues that intersect, such as epistemic virtues, the concept of rationality, an ethics of argumentation, etc. The paper concludes with the view of argumentation through the concept of ‘practice’, where different aspects to be considered in argumentative action are pointed out. It concludes that Vértigos Argumentales formulated and developed some basic intuitions that are present in the contemporary debate about argumentation and virtue
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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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