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Human rights, justice and constitutional empowerment
No full textWith a prolegomenon by Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer, this new edition explores how approaches to social justice, governance, and criminal justice in India have been influenced and defined by concepts of human rights and the directive principles of state policy of the Indian Constitution through the agency of the Supreme Court. It also examines the extent of constitutional empowerment that has been achieved in India and the relevance of the experience of other countries in understanding the process of promoting constitutionalism in India. The nineteen essays by distinguished scholars deal with, among other issues ,judicial responses to human rights violations and their relevance in transforming Indian society, the role of human rights in the development of constitutionalism in India, the horizontal applications of human rights, the relationship between freedom of the press and human rights, and the impact of corruption on human rights
Recording the new renaissance: Legal education and legal profession during and after COVID-19
No full textCOVID-19 is a deadly pandemic that has impacted all walks of human life. As we write this editorial, the traces of coronavirus still continue to remain in the world amid many continuing human efforts to wipe them out. Although the light of hope—the luminosity of freedom—is brimming on the horizon, it only consoles the soul. The sigh of relief is far off. Losses caused by this deadly monster have been countless—of lives, health, peace, love, protection, care, and security. Everyone’s heart goes out to the other—we are human, after all. But that’s not the best we can do in our fight against the Pandemic. We need to battle the malady. We need to gather the fragments strewn by the blow of the Pandemic and secure them from further destruction. We need to renew our creative energies. We need to renew our collective willing and acting
Global higher education during and beyond COVID-19: Perspectives and challenges.
No full textThe COVID-19 pandemic ushered unprecedented challenges globally. The disruption and damage to human life and organizations caused by the pandemic are global in scale. Though pandemics are not new in human history, this is the first time the pandemic spread around the world within a few months. Shutting down all educational institutions with nationwide lockdowns in countries around the world was the only way to contain the spread of the virus. Higher educational institutions slowly transformed their mode of daily operations into online mode once it became apparent that the pandemic was a long haul. In this introductory chapter of the book, we argue that the pandemic could become "a portal" for bringing transformative changes within the higher education sector in the future. Thereby, we provide illustrative examples of this possibility through brief overview of all the chapters in this book written by higher education experts, researchers, senior administrators and university leaders around the world, who analyze the changes happening within the higher education sector during the pandemic and share their vision for the future
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
Human rights as development and development through human rights in Asia: Rights, remedies and accountability
No full textDispelling 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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