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The plea of provocation in criminal law / Khalijah Ahmad
Get PDFProvocation is a defence to a charge of murder at 1 Commonon Law, entitling the accused to be convicted of mans 1aughter . These Common Law defence of provocation owed its origin to the growth by the late sixteenth century of a consciousness that different modes of inflicting death reflected different shades of moral capability, and that each of the forms of killing these was prescribed an appropriate punishment. By the first half of the sixteenth century the practice had evolved whereby one who killed in necessary and reasonable self defence was permitted to go free. Devlin J., in what the Court of Criminal appeal described as a .classic direction' as follow: “Provocation is some act, or series of acts, done by the dead man to the accused, which would cause in any reasonable person, and actually causes the accused, a sudden and temporary loss of self-control rendering the accused so subject to passion as to make him or her for the moment not master of his mind”2
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
Pandangan Khalijah Salleh terhadap sains Tauhidik ke arah membangunkan tamadun Melayu
No full textIsu sains tauhidik masih baru dibahaskan dalam masyarakat kita. Oleh itu, kertas kerja ini adalah mengenai pemikiran seorang sarjana Islam melayu tentang sains tauhidik ke arah pembangunan tamadun melayu. Pengkaji melihat dari sudut pemikiran seorang pemikir melayu wanita sebagai kajian dan perbincangan yang mempunyai nilai tambah kepada perkembangan ilmu. Beliau ialah seorang saintis fizik iaitu Prof Dr Khalijah Mohd Salleh. Khalijah Salleh dipilih sebagai tokoh kajian kerana beliau seorang saintis yang memainkan peranan penting dalam menggerakkan suatu gagasan yang amat bernilai yang berfungsi dalam mencipta penjelmaan, pembetulan dan pembentukan fakta-fakta ilmu yang tidak terkeluar dari landasan agama Islam yang mentauhidkan Allah, melalui apa yang telah ditetapkan di dalam al-Quran dan Hadis. Beliau merupakan salah seorang yang terlibat dalam pembentukan gagasan sains tauhidik. Dalam Tamadun Islam, ilmu tauhid menjadi asas utama dalam pemikiran sains. Tugas utama para penggerak ke arah pembangunan sains tauhidik adalah mencipta program penyelidikan dalam acuan Islam yang berpaksikan ilmu ketuhanan. Ilmu adalah bersifat sejagat dan tidak ada pemisah antara ilmu dengan Islam. Sumbangan tokoh ilmuwan Muslim terhadap pembentukan sains tauhidik merupakan suatu cerminan keprihatinan mereka yang amat bermakna dalam mencorakkan aspek pembangunan insan, pendidikan dan pemikiran umat Islam. Di samping menjadi benteng yang cukup kukuh untuk menghalang segala bentuk penyelewengan terhadap Islam ke arah membangunkan tamadun melayu
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
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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