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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Derivative Suits in Bankruptcy
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It is a fundamental tenet of corporate law that creditors, unlike shareholders, may not bring derivative suits on a firm\u27s behalf—even if the firm is, or is nearly, insolvent. Corporate law affords creditors who are unhappy with a corporate debtor\u27s management various remedies, such as the right (in limited circumstances) to put the firm into receivership or to sue the directors and officers directly for breaches of fiduciary duty. But the derivative suit is not among them.
The formal rationale for denying derivative standing to creditors is that a derivative suit is an assertion of ownership rights, and (in contrast to shareholders) creditors lack a proprietary interest in the debtor entity. While some commentators have questioned the wisdom of corporate law\u27s rule against creditor derivative standing, the rule whatever its merits has long endured and is likely here to stay.
One might suppose, on the theory that nonbankruptcy entitlements are protected in bankruptcy unless there is an express federal policy to the contrary, that creditor derivative suits would be just as unavailing in bankruptcy as they are outside of it. But the supposition would be wrong. For although corporate law forbids and the Bankruptcy Code does not expressly allow creditor derivative suits, courts have permitted creditors in corporate bankruptcy cases to bring them anyway. And even though the Supreme Court held in Hartford Underwriters Insurance Co. v. Union Planters Bank, N.A. that creditors could not assert on behalf of a bankruptcy estate a right that the Bankruptcy Code expressly reserves to the bankruptcy trustee, some lower courts have read that decision narrowly and have continued to permit creditors to assert derivatively claims that the Code apparently reserves to the trustee—though one court has reserved judgment on the practice and another has repudiated it.
This article evaluates the legal arguments and policy rationales that courts have offered for permitting creditor derivative suits in bankruptcy. Most of these arguments and rationales are discussed at length in the Third Circuit\u27s recent en banc decision in Cybergenics, a case in which I and eight other bankruptcy scholars participated (on opposing sides) as amici curiae. Because of its comprehensive treatment of the issues and its centrality to the doctrinal and policy debate, Cybergenics is used here as a vehicle through which to explore the various doctrines and policies that bear on whether derivative litigation can and should be permitted in bankruptcy
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Economic Analysis of Jewish Law
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Like any legal system, Jewish law is amenable to economic analysis, both positive and normative. Economic analysis can help to explain how and why the various rules comprising Jewish law arose and persisted over time. It also can facilitate a direct assessment of Jewish law on the merits. In practice, however, it is a mainly positive economic analysis of Jewish law that scholars have emphasized, while normative analysis has, for the most part, been underemphasized.
Take, for example, the application of law and economics to biblical exegesis. The legal-economic work in this field has been largely descriptive rather than prescriptive. Scholars such as Saul Levmore and Geoffrey Miller have argued persuasively that positive legal-economic analysis can help to explain the existence, preservation, and structure of various biblical regulations. They argue that the Hebrew Bible\u27s regulations are economically predictable. But they do not try to defend them on normative grounds. As Miller has explained in a paper narrowly applying positive economic analysis to the Talmud, economic analysis of law is the use of economic principles and reasoning to understand legal materials. The narrow goal of positive economic analysis of law, applied to Jewish law as to other contexts, is thus to understand and explain rather than to justify the rules and laws under study.
This paper builds on prior work applying economics to Jewish law. It argues that Jewish law lends itself not only to positive but also to normative legal-economic analysis. In contrast to prior work applying economics to biblical interpretation, this paper employs both positive and normative legal-economic analysis. Three sets of biblical regulations-those pertaining to lepers, loan agreements, and land ownership-are studied from both positive and normative perspectives. And the conclusion reached in each case is that the regulations at issue are not only predictable as a descriptive matter but also normatively defensible
Bankruptcy and Education
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Bankruptcy law interacts with education law in a number of respects. A bankrupt educational institution loses access to student financial aid, and its accreditation status is excluded from the bankruptcy estate. Actions by accreditation agencies against bankrupt educational institutions are not subject to the automatic stay. And absent a showing of undue hardship, student loans are not dischargeable in bankruptcy.
The exceptional treatment of educational institutions and their students in bankruptcy reflects a fundamental tension between the goals of bankruptcy law on the one hand and education policy on the other. While bankruptcy law generally seeks to maximize value for creditors and afford a fresh start to individual debtors, it balances these objectives with the goals of education policy, which include assuring educational quality, access, and affordability, as well as protecting the investment of public funds in the educational sector.
Whether current law achieves the correct balance or ought to be rethought and reformed was the subject of a symposium that the American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review hosted at St. John\u27s School of Law on October 24, 2014. The event brought together distinguished experts in the fields of bankruptcy and education law, and their contributions are published here in this symposium issue. These papers are especially timely in light of recent news events concerning high profile insolvencies in the higher education sector and pending legislation to reauthorize the Higher Education Act. And they will be of particular interest, given how little attention the intersection between these two subject areas has received until now
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