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“Impotent and Obsolete:” The Case for Nuclear Weapon Diplomacy with Iran
No full textRoberts, Adam. (2012). “Impotent and Obsolete:” The Case for Nuclear Weapon Diplomacy with Iran. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/124144
Bull (Hedley), Kingsbury (Benedict), Roberts (Adam), eds. Hugo Grotius and International Relations.
No full textMorineau Michel. Bull (Hedley), Kingsbury (Benedict), Roberts (Adam), eds. Hugo Grotius and International Relations. . In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 72, fasc. 4, 1994. Histoire medievale, moderne et contemporaine - Middeleeuwse, moderne en hedendaagse geschiedenis. pp. 1024-1026
The history and viability of constitutivism in ethics
Full text linkThe topic of this thesis is constitutivism in ethics: its history and its viability. Constitutivists hope to show that moral standards are normative because if we are not following them, we are failing to be agents. We cannot escape trying to be agents: it is just our way of trying to do anything in particular. In failing to be agents, then, we are failing to do what we ourselves are trying to. The force of normativity, on a constitutivist view, turns out to be the force of our own efforts to do things. Moral or pro-moral standards are what we must be guided by for our own attempts to do things to be internally consistent. The immoral would-be agent, then, is one who is divided against themself. They are trying to do the impossible: to be agents in a way that agents cannot. Defending the viability of constitutivism – one half of my topic – only takes defending one form of it. This thesis focuses on Kantian constitutivism, which may be the most promising kind of it. It focuses in particular on Christine Korsgaard’s version of that position, as presented in The Sources of Normativity, Self-Constitution, her recent Fellow Creatures, and a range of essays. The four substantive chapters of this thesis set out to answer four different questions. The first is what the components of Kantian constitutivism are. Two of those four components are claimed to be characteristic of constitutivism in ethics, and the chapter points to the historical background of all four of them. The second question is in what sense we face the problem of agency. The chapter first distinguishes rational and nonrational agency. It then explains how, on the view, rationality is self-conceptual, and attempts to pin down this talk of problem-facing. The final two chapters of this thesis take up two closely related questions. These are why our moral psychology should feature what Kant calls “incentives,” and why, as Kant and Aristotle believe, it should feature not just acts, but ends. It argues that on the Kantian constitutivist picture, there are two demands on a moral philosophy of action. Those demands can be seen to generate the functional concepts of incentives and, via the steps of a Kantian moral argument, ends
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 Tn916/Tn1545 family of conjugative transposons
No full textThe conjugative transposon Tn916 was first discovered in the late 1970s and is, together with the related conjugative transposon Tni545, the paradigm of a large family of related conjugative transposons known as the Tn916/Tn/545 family, which are found in an extremely diverse range of bacteria. With the huge increase in bacterial genomic sequence data available, due to the widespread use of next generation sequencing, more putative conjugative transposons belonging to the Tn916/Tn1545 family are being reported. Many of these are capable of excision, integration and conjugation. Nearly all of the Tn916/Tn1545-like elements discovered to date encode tetracycline resistance however, increasingly resistance to other antimicrobials is being found. Some of the members of the Tn916/Tn/545 family of elements are composite structures which contain smaller mobile genetic elements which are also capable of transposition. Tn916/Tn/545 Tn1545-like elements themselves are also found within larger and more complex elements. This review will give an overview of the current knowledge of the Tn916/Tn/545 family of conjugative transposons highlighting recently characterized composite elements carrying additional and novel resistance genes
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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