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Episode 147: Agricultural Self-Regulation with Peter Sankoff
No full textOn this episode of Knowing Animals we are joined by Peter Sankoff. Peter is a member of the Law Faculty at the University of Alberta in Canada. He is also Associate Dean. We discuss Peter’s paper ‘Canada’s Experiment with Industry Self-Regulation in Agriculture: Radical Innovation or Means of Insulation?’, which appeared in the Canadian Journal of Comparative and Contemporary Law in 2019
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
No full text“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
Five Years of the New Animal Welfare Regime: Lessons Learned From New Zealand\u27s Decision to Modernize its Animal Welfare Legislation
No full textIn 1999, New Zealand took an ambitious step to update its animal welfare legislation. The new law included a limited provision to protect Great Apes from scientific experimentation that was heralded internationally as a huge step forward for animals. The Author suggests, however, that New Zealand’s other animals have not fared nearly as well under the new law, and that the notion of New Zealand as the “animal friendly” nation implied by its treatment of primates is more about perception than reality. This article explores the New Zealand experience, and suggests lessons that can be drawn from the modernization of its animal welfare legislation
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe 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
The Animal Rights Debate and the Expansion of Public Discourse: Is it Possible for the Law Protecting Animals to Simultaneously Fail and Succeed?
No full textThis Article uses the theory of deliberative democracy, as developed by Jürgen Habermas and others, to suggest that public discourse is essential to encouraging democratic change in animal welfare law. The author examines the legal regimes of Canada and New Zealand to determine which country better facilitates a public dialogue about the treatment of animals. The Article concludes that, while Canada has a number of laws that ostensibly protect animals, New Zealand’s regime is much better at creating the public discourse required to meaningfully advance animal protection. The author does not suggest that New Zealand’s regime is perfect; rather, New Zealand’s model is preferable to Canada’s because it allows the public to meaningfully engage in laws affecting animals at regular intervals. In Canada, generating discussion in government about animal welfare is too often left to the whim of legislators. Due to New Zealand’s model of encouraging and requiring public discourse, its protection laws have begun to surpass those of Canada, and there is reason to believe this will continue. Encouraging public discourse about our assumptions about animals fosters hope for meaningful progress in their lives
Taking the Instruction of Law Outside the Lecture Hall: How the Flipped Classroom Can Make Learning More Productive and Enjoyable (for Professors and Students)
No full textThis article addresses the viability and utility of the “flipped classroom” concept in law school classrooms. The author argues that video capsules, as a means to lecture outside of the classroom, are an effective way to teach the so-called Generation Y and reclaim the classroom. By using class time to concentrate almost entirely on problem-solving, students are more focused and engaged in the material. Although technologies create certain challenges for the future of legal education, the potential to reinvent the way course material is delivered will help law faculties reach a generation of students that are proving difficult to inspire using traditional means
Animal Protection Underenforcement and the Rule of Law
No full textDomesticated animals are dependent on humans for their protection. This is why an overwhelming majority of jurisdictions have committed to penalising those who ill-treat them or fail to provide for their welfare. Simultaneously, those governments in those jurisdictions have taken little interest in enforcing animal protection legislation. Almost universally, it seems that legislative expressions of a desire to protect animals do not extend to correlative commitments to effectively enforce that legislation, leading to an “enforcement gap”.
The effect of the enforcement gap is clear: breaches of animal welfare legislation are consistently undetected and under-prosecuted. Not only does this have a direct effect on the animals who suffer as a consequence, it also prevents a deterrent signal from reaching the public at large, which in turn encourages the breach of such legislation to continue unabated, creating a vicious circle of underenforcement.
Given those effects, many have argued for the closing of the enforcement gap so as to protect and improve the interests of animals. This thesis takes a different perspective by arguing that systemic underenforcement of animal protection legislation undermines the rule of law and thus is an issue of constitutional significance. In so doing, my proposed thesis will argue that closing the enforcement gap will alleviate this constitutional problem, and thus is in the best interests of everyone, not just animals.
The thesis is split into three chapters. The first chapter explains how it is possible to frame underenforcement of animal protection legislation as a rule of law problem. The second will show – through analysis of two comparator jurisdictions as case studies – that underenforcement of animal protection legislation is in fact occurring. The final chapter will investigate what is required to solve the problem of underenforcement, before recommending a model of reform
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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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