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Nereguliarios migracijos per Lietuvos-Baltarusijos sieną politinis ir žiniasklaidos rėminimas.
No full textIn 2021, Lithuania faced with irregular migration across the border with Belarus when Alexander Lukashenko’s regime started organising crossings of asylum seekers from the Middle East and Africa to Lithuania and other neighbouring countries. In response to this situation, politicians had to present their assessment of irregular migration and views on asylum seekers, while media had to make decisions how to portray irregular migration and shape public debate. Communication and framing of asylum seekers have a significant influence how the society will perceive migration, whether it will become a polarizing issue, increase political tensions and create favourable environment for authoritarian-populist parties. Recently conducted surveys show highly negative attitude of Lithuanians towards migrants and refugees. More than two thirds of Lithuanians obtain information about migration from the media, therefore, it is relevant to find out how politicians and media framed irregular migration when Lithuanian institutions had to manage increased flows of migration. To answer the research question, the framing theory was used. Frames select and highlight some facets of events or issues, promote a particular interpretation, evaluation, and solution. Frames distinguish information from the general discourse as the used concepts by a communicator are more noticeable, meaningful, or memorable to audiences. The qualitative content analysis was applied to analyse the empirical data. It was gathered from selected articles on LRT.lt, 15min.lt and Lrytas.lt news websites according to the set timeframes of 4 major events from 10 July 2021 to 28 December 2021. The total number of selected articles is 366. Based on the framing theory, three groups of frames were distinguished: restriction, cosmopolitan and solidarity. Restriction frames consider the arrival of new migrants as causing different problems. The provided arguments are related with the need to impose strict restrictions on incoming migrants and strict rules getting permits to live in a country. Cosmopolitan frames claim that the universal human rights, principles of non-refoulment, individualism and generality are of key importance. They provide arguments for open borders and limited right of states to control migration. Humanitarian frames stress the host society’s duty to help and the welcoming approach, therefore, it calls for a humanitarian stance in the public discourse. Humanitarianism emphasizes open and fair asylum policy based on compassion and solidarity. After coding the empirical data, two new frames were identified: unpreparedness and EU issue frame. The security frame prevails in the media discourse where increased migration flows are linked with the threat to national security. A sufficiently larger number of articles promoted more stringent restrictions in managing increased migration flows. Politicians were the most quoted and interviewed group, therefore, they had many opportunities to present their views on irregular migration, frame asylum seekers and propose policy measures. While asylum seekers themselves, NGOs, experts were significantly less interviewed. As a result, these groups had less influence on dominating frames. Migrants and refugees are not portrayed as persons because of the highly securitized rhetoric and association of asylum seekers with a threat to society. They were described as participants of hybrid warfare, possible criminals, goods or tools. This rhetoric causes dehumanizing effect when asylum seekers are not considered as persons but portrayed as an abstraction or associated with a threat. The research findings suggest that such framing potentially promoted negative views towards migrants and refugees
Arterial and molecular biomarkers for improved cardiovascular disease and diabetes risk assessment comparative study.
No full textDoctoral dissertation abstract. The Thesis was developed in 2013-2016 in the Clinic of Cardiovascular diseases of Vilnius University Faculty of Medicine
Implementing the european union global strategy: analysis of change in defence integration.
No full textThe European Union is facing new geopolitical challenges that are much more complex than it was before. Old methods of tackling crisis and lack of cooperation do not allow to ensure security of European countries. Hybrid threats, cyber and terrorist attacks require joint action because the state alone cannot solve these security issues. Furthermore, the lack of stability in the world and a rising number of conflicts near the EU’s external borders make a situation even worse. The new EU Global strategy adopted in 2016 shows that there is a willingness to strengthen common security and defence policy. However, member states have to find a consensus and agree on how to implement their strategy. Almost three years have passed after the adoption of the strategy, but there is a lack of deeper analysis in which areas countries have made progress, what projects are falling behind schedule and what possible causes could explain different implementation progress. As a result, it is necessary to fill a research gap and assess what was achieved in defence integration field. As many political initiatives emerge, ongoing changes must be evaluated. It is unclear how has the European Union defence integration changed after the approval of Global strategy. Consequently, the purpose of this study is to scrutinize development taking place in the field of defence integration, to find out the implementation format of initiatives and the causes of smooth or failed realization. Several objectives were set for achieving this goal. First, the concept of neorealism theory was defined. Afterwards, a deductive method was used based on a systematic theory of security environment. The most important sources were reviewed and structured using qualitative content analysis. Lastly, the main initiatives and changes were identified. The research showed that there are three levels of change. Initially, changes in the international structure were observed. It indicates that the modification of great powers and decreased security in the region effect behaviour of member states. This situation encourages countries to seek self-help strategy. The need for Europe to assume greater responsibility, act autonomously, become a global actor is mention in the documents and reports. Changes in the international structure have an impact on the second factor – state-to-state interactions. Increasing threats increase the likelihood of potential agreements leading to the development of military technology (third factor). Approved common defence projects allow to develop balancing strategy and gain relative power at the global level. Member states are less inclined to apply relative benefit calculations, politicians try to find a compromise because security is one of the top priorities. Although countries are tended to strengthen common security and defence policy, initiatives that more restrict the choice of member states and significantly reduce sovereignty in the defence field do not receive an approval even when the security situation deteriorates. Research implies that international structure has changed the understanding of the EU role in the field of defence and security. Nevertheless, the development of common military capabilities in the EU format remains complicated and limited. The European Union is still seen as a source of soft power, therefore, policies are restricted to specific defence mechanisms. Projects directly increasing military power are more difficult to develop. In general, member states approve initiatives which are more flexible, inclusive and based on voluntary principals. Countries usually support defence policies when there is possibility to choose projects and the level of commitment. The study showed that the EU common security and defence policy remains concentrated on a broader concept of security by implementing research, development, prevention and stabilization measures
Arterinių ir molekulinių širdies ir kraujagyslių ligų bei cukrinio diabeto rizikos biožymenų palyginamasis tyrimas.
No full textDoctoral dissertation. The Thesis was developed in 2013-2016 in the Clinic of Cardiovascular diseases of Vilnius University Faculty of Medicine
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
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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