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The Role of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Protecting Disability Rights
No full textQuesto capitolo esamina il ruolo della Corte di Giustizia dell'Unione Europea (CGUE) nella tutela dei diritti delle persone con disabilità attraverso una lente "relazionale". Vengono analizzate criticamente le sentenze chiave della CGUE relative alla nozione di "lavoratore", alla definizione di "disabilità", agli obblighi di adeguamento ragionevole e alla discriminazione tra categorie di persone con disabilità. L'autore sottolinea l'approccio talvolta incerto della Corte, oscillante tra un'interpretazione estensiva dei diritti e una certa cautela nel non invadere le competenze degli Stati membri. Vengono evidenziate alcune aree trascurate, come i diritti delle madri non partorienti e dei principali caregivers di minori con gravi disabilità. Il capitolo si conclude con una riflessione sul ruolo potenzialmente più incisivo che la Commissione Europea potrebbe svolgere nel plasmare il diritto dell'UE in materia di disabilità, promuovendo un'applicazione più uniforme e un maggiore accesso alla giustizia. Un'epilogo personale rivela il conflitto di interessi dell'autore come genitore di un minore con disabilità grave. ** This chapter examines the role of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in protecting the rights of persons with disabilities through a "relational" lens. It critically analyzes key CJEU rulings relating to the notion of "worker", the definition of "disability", the duty of reasonable accommodation, and discrimination between categories of persons with disabilities. The author highlights the Court's sometimes uncertain approach, oscillating between an extensive interpretation of rights and caution in not encroaching on Member States' competences. Some neglected areas are highlighted, such as the rights of non-birthing mothers and primary caregivers of children with severe disabilities. The chapter concludes with a reflection on the potentially more incisive role the European Commission could play in shaping EU disability law, promoting more uniform application and greater access to justice. A personal epilogue reveals the author's conflict of interest as a parent of a child with severe disability
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
Actors and Roles in EU Disability Law
Full text linkThis open access book looks at the development and consolidation of EU disability law as a distinct field of enquiry. It provides novel approaches to studying EU disability law. In a departure from other books on the topic, it takes a contextual approach, both engaging with current debates and policies and providing rigorous legal analysis. In addition to looking at the ‘how’ of the field’s development, it addresses the ‘who’ by charting the key stakeholders in the field. This is an insightful and innovative take on an increasingly significant field of EU law. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the European Research Council
Actors and Roles in EU Disability Law
No full textThis open access book looks at the development and consolidation of EU disability law as a distinct field of enquiry. It provides novel approaches to studying EU disability law. In a departure from other books on the topic, it takes a contextual approach, both engaging with current debates and policies and providing rigorous legal analysis. In addition to looking at the ‘how’ of the field’s development, it addresses the ‘who’ by charting the key stakeholders in the field. This is an insightful and innovative take on an increasingly significant field of EU law. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the European Research Council
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
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