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International Political Risk Management : The Brave New World
Get PDFPart One provides a first look from the
"supply side" at the reaction of the political
risk insurance market to September 11, 2001, the Argentine
economic crisis, and other recent corporate upheavals. This
section starts off with the public provider's
perspective, provided by Vivian Brown, Chief Executive of
the U.K.'s Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD)
and President of the Berne Union. Part Two explores the
reactions of investors and lenders to the recent upheavals
in the global economy. It pays particular attention to the
problems confronting large infrastructure projects, in which
purchase agreements are guaranteed by the host country, and
revenues are denominated in local currency. It examines how
political risk insurance can help lenders to return to
financing infrastructure development in emerging markets,
and asks to what extent investors and lenders need new
products or new kinds of coverage to deal with currency
crises. Part Three brings together Felton "Mac"
Johnston, President, FMJ International Risk; Charles Berry,
Chairman, Berry, Palmer & Lyle Limited; and Witold
Henisz and Bennet Zelner, Assistant Professors at Wharton
and Georgetown University respectively. Additional
commentary is provided by David Bailey, Vice President,
Sovereign Risk Insurance Ltd. and Edith Quintrell, Manager,
Insurance, at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation,
who provide perspectives on how the political risk insurance
industry might evolve to meet the needs of insurers and
reinsurers, on the one hand, and investors and lenders, on
the other
International Political Risk Management : Looking to the Future
No full textThis publication is the third in a
series of volumes based on the Multilateral Investment
Guarantee Agency-Georgetown University Symposium in
International Political Risk Management. Like its
predecessors, this volume offers expert assessments of
needs, trends, and challenges in the international political
risk insurance industry. These assessments come from a dozen
senior practitioners from the investor, financial,
insurance, broker, and analytical communities. The volume
leads off by examining the lessons that can be learned from
recent investment losses, insurance claims, and
arbitrations. It then turns to consider what the future may
hold for coverage of project finance projects in emerging
markets as well as recent public-private collaboration
trends in the issuance of political risk insurance. It
concludes by reconsidering both old and new political risk
insurance products and innovations that seek to expand the
tools that international investors can utilize to mitigate
political risk abroad
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
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