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Alternative Dispute Resolution for Sustainable Peace: A Pragmatic Proposition
No full textIn lieu of formal judicial process under the common law jurisprudence, tools and techniques of alternative dispute resolution (hereafter ADR) - as the same are so called ~ stand way ahead toward peace-building discourse in the contemporary society, as it was earlier. In forthcoming paragraphs. the author strives to articulate with arguments of his own - and corroborate (t)his position that (i) in Its given time and place - the twenty-first century South Asia - ADR, in technical sense of the term, seems a misnomer, because the same stands here in vogue as the mainstream judicious process toward peaceful settlement of disputes between and among individuals or group of individuals since time immemorial; (ii) also, with wide variety of tools and techniques of ADR, the author grapples with jurisprudence of the same to attain sustainable peace sans remnants of prejudice against one another. Besides, in perspective of hitherto ordeal of common law - procedural Law in particular - the author asserts imperative need for minute introspection toward befitting jurisprudence to suit the soil and its people in South Asia; thereby, get rid of the given piecemeal peace process the State grapples with in the course of its myopic dispute governance
Alternative Dispute Resolution for Sustainable Peace: A Pragmatic Proposition
No full textIn lieu of formal judicial process under the common law jurisprudence, tools and techniques of alternative dispute resolution (hereafter ADR) - as the same are so called ~ stand way ahead toward peace-building discourse in the contemporary society, as it was earlier. In forthcoming paragraphs. the author strives to articulate with arguments of his own - and corroborate (t)his position that (i) in Its given time and place - the twenty-first century South Asia - ADR, in technical sense of the term, seems a misnomer, because the same stands here in vogue as the mainstream judicious process toward peaceful settlement of disputes between and among individuals or group of individuals since time immemorial; (ii) also, with wide variety of tools and techniques of ADR, the author grapples with jurisprudence of the same to attain sustainable peace sans remnants of prejudice against one another. Besides, in perspective of hitherto ordeal of common law - procedural Law in particular - the author asserts imperative need for minute introspection toward befitting jurisprudence to suit the soil and its people in South Asia; thereby, get rid of the given piecemeal peace process the State grapples with in the course of its myopic dispute governance
In the Whirlpool of Cyber Polemics: Consumer Crucified Before the Law as Bystander
No full textThe web worldwide uploads sui generis issues for net savvy citizens (“netizens” in the trendy sense of the term) to grapple with corporate interest operative from within the system of cyber governance. At times, savage takes place under the (dis) guise of ideology as well. One such epic struggle surfaces itself through polemics between digital equality and net neutrality, a feud that constitutes the crux of this effort, to put its consumers to crossroads. A quest thereby stands tested with jurisprudent reasoning; whether and how far internet browser may be construed as “consumer” under the given legal regime. The author engages in this quest, in the Indian context, to plead with an argument of his own that naive browser as new entrant deserves parental coverage of the law. Besides, the author has identified fault-lines in ideological positioning and thereby demonstrated mutual criss-crosses between classical left-wing and right-wing politics inter se; no less contentious for otherwise veteran readership. Irrespective of his political positioning, however, the consumer is put to peril anyway. While digital equality falls short to offer freedom of access, net neutrality has had no package to offer even access to net. Nowadays equality plays for right-wing politics and liberty does the same for left-wing politics. At the bottom, both of them appear great grandeurs since the requiem for naive consumer, crucified by either ideology, falls on deaf ear. Irrespective of polemics (read politics), ideology appears savage for the naive netizenry and saviour for the rest. Isolated and unorganized, often than not consumer falls prey to pitfalls arranged by organized and collusive goods producer or/ and service provide
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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