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Medidas de confianza mutua y reacercamiento entre Cuba y los Estados Unidos
No full textMutual trust and security measures between nations (known as CSBM or CBM), have been incorporating a series of procedures whose ultimate purpose is to alleviate tensions and lessen the danger of an armed conflict breaking out as a consequence of a misinterpretation or miscalculation about the maneuvers of a rival state. In the present work, they are situated in the context of the current relations between Cuba and the United States, in order to consider whether it makes sense to seek CBMs that could reduce tension and create a more conducive political environment to improve relations between Havana and Washington. It is also analyzed whether there are no other ways, different from the one defined by these initiatives, to initiate a rapprochement process that future CBMs could later accelerate or consolidate.Las medidas de confianza mutua y seguridad entre naciones (conocidas como CSBM o CBM por sus siglas en inglés), han ido incorporando una serie de procedimientos que tienen como propósito último aliviar las tensiones y aminorar el peligro de que se desate un conflicto armado como consecuencia de una mala interpretación o un error de cálculo acerca de las maniobras de un estado rival. En el presente trabajo se sitúan en el contexto de las actuales relaciones entre
Cuba y los Estados Unidos, a fin de considerar si tiene sentido buscar unas CBM que pudieran reducir la tensión y crear un ambiente político más propicio para mejorar las relaciones entre La Habana y Washington. Se analiza además si no existen otros caminos, distintos del que definen estas iniciativas, para iniciar un proceso de reacercamiento que las CBM futuras podrían posteriormente acelerar o consolidar
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
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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