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A Jewish Conception of Human Dignity: Philosophy and Its Ethical Implications for Israeli Supreme Court Decisions
No full textSTS 325-003: Special Topics in STS - Democratic Politics: Institutions, Media, and Society
No full textStruggles of Recognition: The Psychological Causes of Democratization
No full textThis project attempts to answer the unsolved puzzle of democratization: why does '. democratization occur? This is both a theory development and theory testing project which aims to answer this question by considering a psychological facet of human .. nature, the pursuit of recognition, following Francis Fukuyama's argument. At the crux of the thesis is the idea that the pursuit of recognition - an aversion to being oppressed and a desire for social esteem - is the underlying impetus of democratization. This impetus can be converted into political pressures leading to democratization in relation to a wide array of external factors. · In order to test this idea, I develop a theoretical apparatus that discusses the possible ways in which the pursuit of recognition may be converted into political pressures and observed empirically. I develop concepts and research pertaining to injustice-frames and oppositional consciousness. The research approach in interdisciplinary and involves several levels of analysis. The main focus, however, is on the psychological dimensions of democratization. I argue that the explanation of the specific timing and place of democratization should be sought in developments of injustice-frames and oppositional consciousness among · the oppressed. These changes in human agency properties are most relevant to explaining why and how democratization occurs. As for the question why .democratization occurs as a general phenomenon, I argue that an explanation must invoke the psychological facet of human nature because it is the only level of analysis that can explain the general cause of this phenomenon which is very complex and incomparable in almost any external aspect. I develop of the pursuit of recognition theory, and test alternative theories of democratization, by looking at four cases of democratization: the U.S. civil rights movement, the transition from authoritarian rule to democracy in Spain, the transition from apartheid to democracy in South Africa, and the Kuwaiti women's rights struggle for the vote. I examine the complexity of the processes leading to democratization and the explanatory power of rival explanations.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo
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
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