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Criminal procedure of a specialist in the Republic of Lithuania in the context of international cooperation
No full textThe article discusses the concept of “special knowledge,” its use in the process of detection and
investigation of crimes, as well as some problematic issues of the specialist’s activities both in
the framework of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Lithuania and in the aspect
of international cooperation. According to the author of the article, one of the most important
activities of representatives of, first of all, the European forensic community at the present
stage is the work on bringing together the paradigms of various national forensic schools.
This paper takes a new look at the specialist’s activities both in the framework of the Code of
Criminal Procedure of the Republic of Lithuania and in the aspect of international cooperation.
At the present level of the development of science, not a single country, let alone as small
as Lithuania, can avoid close international cooperation with other entities. This also applies
to forensics, which develops recommendations, techniques and means of disclosing, investigating
and preventing crimes, which should lead to improving public safety. Cooperation in
this area is carried out at various levels. International cooperation of academic centers and
non-governmental forensic organizations seems to have significant potential in this area. The
Lithuanian Forensic Society is focused on strengthening international cooperation in the field
of criminalistics and forensic expertise. To achieve this goal the international symposiums
“Forensics and forensic expertology: science, training, practice” are organized, which have become
not only a platform for the exchange of scientific research results and best practices, but
also a place where you can find partners for further research. The article provides a brief historical
overview of the changes in the position, functions, rights and obligations of a specialist
in criminal procedure in the Republic of Lithuania. Some disputable aspects of the status of
a specialist in the current Code of Criminal Procedure of Lithuania are emphasized as well
Sprawozdanie z konferencji - Międzynarodowa konferencja naukowa „Integration and Exclusion. Language Rights of National Minorities in Europe”, Wilno, 27 listopada 2015 roku
No full textGeneral theory of criminalistics: from Hans Gross to Rafail Belkin... And what next?
Full text linkThe article analyzes processes of formation and development of the general
theory of criminalistics through the prism of science, emphasizing the contribution
of the Eastern European School of criminalistics scientists – especially
prof. Rafail Belkin. At the same time it is reminded that at the turn of the 19th
and 20th centuries the theoretical foundations of criminalistics were laid by
the so-called pioneers of forensic science with Hans Gross at the forefront. It is
emphasized that although in recent years there has been an increase in interest
in the process of formation and establishment of criminalistics at the turn of
19th and 20th centuries but Hans Gross’s theoretical attitudes and insights are
insufficiently analyzed and evaluated. Although H. Gross’s textbook focused
on the practitioners of those days interpreting and investigating crimes, he
himself wrote that we also have a theoretical part in it. Are we deep enough
in Gross’s ideas and are we able to evaluate and apply them creatively in the
modern world
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
The implementation of laws of the European Union and their impact on expert activity in Lithuania
No full textZwalczanie przestępczości zawsze było jedną z funkcji państwa, które w miarę swoich możliwości, do jej realizacji wykorzystywało osiągnięcia nauki i techniki. Jedną z podstawowych form wdrażania osiągnięć nauki i techniki do procesów wykrywania, zwalczania i prewencji przestępstw była i jest ekspertyza sądowa. Bycie w Unii Europejskiej zobowiązuje do dostosowywania, harmonizacji prawa krajowego z prawem UE. Unia Europejska ma ku temu określone instrumenty prawne. Określone rozwiązania unijne są obligatoryjnymi od chwili ich uchwalenia, a inne wymagają implementacji w krajowy porządek prawny. W artykule są przedstawione zmiany ustawodawstwa litewskiego w dziedzinie ekspertyzy sądowej, które są pokłosiem implementacji norm prawa unijnego do porządku prawnego Republiki Litewskiej. W artykule zwraca się uwagę na działalność UE w dziedzinie zapewnienia bezpieczeństwa, w tym w dziedzinie utworzenia europejskiego obszaru nauk sądowych oraz rozwoju infrastruktury nauk sądowych w Europie.Fighting crime always was a state task, that used as far as possible achievements of science and technology. One of main forms of introducing of achievements of science and technology into processes of revealing, fighting and prevention of crimes is judicial expertise. Being an European Union Member obliges to adjust and harmonize local law with EU law. European Union has specific tools to ensure this. Some Union solutions are obligatory from their adopting, others need to be implemented into local law systems. The article describes changes of lithuanian legislation concerning judicial expertise which are an effect of Union law implementation into the law system of Republic of Lithuania. The article emphasizes EU activity in the aspect of security ensuring including creating of European area of judicial sciences and development of its’ infrastructure
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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