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Study on introducing guidelines to prepare a data protection policy
No full textOver the past several decades, "Information Technology" has become the primary
technology that affects everyone in the modern world in their day-to-day lives. As the role
played by "information" in organizing, controlling, facilitating and managing a person's life
became ever more pronounced, the impact of information technology on individuals and
society also became more significant in its depth and far reaching in its breadth. In the
modern technologically-enhanced world we live in today, information technology had been
able to make a very positive impact by making our lives more enriching through the
availability of a myriad of services and capabilities tailor-made to our individual needs and
preferences.
Among these many and varied benefits of information technology lies certain critical factors
that could create negative outcomes. Main among these disadvantages is the possible
harmful effects on privacy of people. Beginning with the new millennium, Sri Lanka has
been on an accelerated program to bring information technology to nearly every aspect of a
citizen's life with special emphasis on public sector services led by the e-Sri Lanka initiative
of the government and the private sector services in banking and finance, insurance,
telecommunication, education, trade and commerce, etc. The government has given due
recognition to strengthen the legal framework for use of information technology in public
life through the enactment of legislation such as Electronic Transactions Act of 2006 and
Computer Crimes Act of 2007 that provide the laws and legal procedures for effective and
correct use of technology.
In addition to these new laws, the government has amended many other laws, rule and
regulations to accommodate information technology and its many capabilities for
improvement in services and process as well as in providing new services and other
capabilities for the benefit of the citizens and the country. Also, both the government as well
as the private sector in Sri Lanka have successfully implemented many initiatives to improve
the information technology skills and literacy level of users. An important outcome of all
these developments in technology, legislation, training, services, etc has been the ever
expending collection, processing and storage of data pertaining to individuals and
transactions that could have a significant impact on the privacy concerns of citizens. The
globally prevalent approach to address such privacy concerns has been the formulation and
enactment of legislation that are termed as "data protection laws" along with supporting
procedures and mechanisms for law implementation.
While it can be seen that a clear need exists for data protection laws in Sri Lanka through
comparison with other countries and considering the accelerated growth in information
technology and associated services; the extent of the need for a data protection law, the
parameters of importance in such a law and the guideline that should be considered in the
formulation of the law have not been systemically studied before. The research work
presented in this thesis seeks to address this lacuna through a focused study on finding
factors to be considered while preparing a data protection policy suitable for the Sri Lankan
context. The research methodology was based on an empirical study using a sample of
companies covering a broad spectrum of applications and services that collect, process and
store data with potential privacy impacts. The research studied existing practices impacting data protection (both positively and negatively) as well as issues faced by management
while protecting data.
The research found that certain widely practiced acts of organizations seen to be
commercially expedient could lead to serious information privacy violations to primary
owners of data. Also, the research showed a focus on data protection primarily through
company policy based approaches bereft of technological means such as data encryption that
would facilitate vigorous enforcement of those policies. Another important finding of the
research is the unintentional violation of data privacy by organization through the
unregulated actions of employees. The author expects the research findings presented in this
thesis to contribute to the knowledge area of information privacy concerns in Sri Lanka and
to assist in future research work related to the area of data and privacy protection
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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