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EU27-India collaborative papers on Cyber physical System
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3 TOPIC 3: EU27-INDIA COLLABORATIVE PAPERS IN CLEAN AND RENEWABLE ENERGY
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EU27-India collaborative papers on Health & Biomedical Research
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Exploring the role of finance in driving circular economy and sustainable business practices
No full textThe existing economic system is mainly founded on a linear approach to gaining capital, including mining natural resources, manufacturing, consumption, and disposal. Despite the increasing attention given to the Circular Economy (CE), currently, scholarly analysis is absent into the function of finance and the prospective utility of financial developments in expediting the adoption of CE principles. Through a systematic literature review (SLR), this research aims to present a comprehensive understanding of the nexus between finance and the CE, emphasising how financial innovations can accelerate the transition towards CE. Considering 150 articles, it was found that financial innovation is a powerful driver for the transition towards a CE. Indeed, financial innovation enables organisations to integrate CE principles and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) elements into their strategic decision-making. This research unveils the need for more research and innovation in the financial sector to develop advanced financial instruments and mechanisms that can support CE acceleration. The acceleration of the global transition towards a sustainable, resource-efficient, and resilient economic model that benefits enterprises and society can be facilitated by promoting financial innovations. The analysis is grounded on the idea of CE as based on the tenets of designing out waste and pollution, keeping materials and resources in use, and regenerating natural systems. It turns out that CE is affected by a variety of factors with a final result of positive impact on the environment and society: green bonds, green loans, and finance; pay-for-performance and results-based financing mechanisms; specialised financing solution/CE-focused funds and investment strategies; and fintech in driving the CE. Finally, this study further provides new insights into the role of fintech, AI, and ML in advancing circular finance and scrutinising the hurdles and barriers to implementing circular finance practices
Assessing the Impact of Climate Modes on Extreme Arctic Sea Ice Using Reanalysis Data
No full textArctic Sea ice variability arises from both anthropogenic forcing and natural climate modes such as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and Arctic Oscillation (AO). While these modes are known to influence sea ice concentration (SIC) and thickness (SIT), their impacts on seasonal extremes remain less understood. In this study, the extreme SIC and SIT are investigated using ERA5 and CMEMS reanalysis products, applying a non-stationary generalised extreme value (GEV) framework with climate indices as covariates. Results indicate that winter and spring sea-ice variability is most pronounced in the Barents and Greenland Seas, where strong Atlantic inflows and dynamic atmospheric conditions make the marginal ice zone highly sensitive to even minor perturbations. Conversely, in the central and peripheral Arctic, variability maximises in summer and autumn, when melt processes, ice-albedo feedback and delayed freeze-up intensify interannual fluctuations. ENSO exerts notable seasonal effects: El Niño events enhance extreme SIC in the Laptev Sea but reduce it in the East Siberian Sea during summer, while SIT extremes increase in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (CAA) and decline in the East Siberian Sea across all seasons. NAO-related anomalies include stronger SIC and SIT extremes in the Beaufort Sea and CAA and reductions in the Chukchi Sea during autumn. AO effects include increased SIC in the Chukchi Sea during summer and autumn, but decreases in the Beaufort and CAA in summer; SIT extremes rise in the CAA during spring but fall in the Beaufort Sea in summer. Composite analysis further reveals that out-of-phase NAO-AO states intensify autumn sea ice extremes, whereas in-phase conditions exert weaker influences. These results emphasise the distinct and seasonally varying roles of climate modes in shaping Arctic Sea ice extremes, offering insights into future Arctic climate variability
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
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