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State Obligation to Combat Enforced Disappearance: An Empirical Analysis in Bangladesh Perspective
No full textCompliance with Labour Law in the Fish Farming Industry in Bangladesh: an Empirical Analysis
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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
Trade protectionism & China’s international trade disputes:Renewable Energy Perspectives
Full text linkRenewable energy is frequently seen as one of the world’s most promising industries, as it promises a sustainable future in the surge of climate change. Nevertheless, several trade disputes emerge as nations implement policies to boost the domestic green energy industry, putting current trade laws to the test and leaving the detrimental effects on the development of renewable energy technologies. As a result, trade tensions have risen, particularly in bilateral relations between the United States and China. It is impossible to deny that current trade disputes over renewable energy products have practical consequences for governments, institutions, and enterprises. Rising trade protectionism in the energy industry may endanger the fulfillment of specific sustainable development targets. Keeping that in mind, this study aims to examine the recent trade disputes over China’s renewable energy products at the multilateral forum of the WTO, while analyzing protectionism in the context of international trade and practices.</p
Reeling in Hope: Can Fishery Credit Really Improve Food Expenditure Status for Poor Fish Farming Communities in Rural Bangladesh?
Full text linkThe fish farming communities in Bangladesh often find themselves trapped in poverty due to limited resources and low living standards. Many of these communities face financial constraints, struggling to secure credit from formal financial institutions. This compels them to turn to informal lending sources with unfavorable terms and conditions. To address this challenge, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) have taken the initiative to provide credit facilities to these fish farming communities. In this study, we employed the Simple Random Sampling (SRS) technique to select 385 fish farmers from the Khulna district who had received credit support from NGOs. The Propensity Score Matching (PSM) technique was then applied to evaluate the impact of fishery credit on the household food expenditure of the sampled fish farmers. Contrary to existing literature suggesting that access to fisheries credit improves food security, our empirical findings present a different perspective. The Binary Logistic Regression (BLR) study identified two factors influencing the food purchasing capacity of fish farmers: the value of non-land assets and the proximity of NGOs' branch offices to the fish farmers' dwellings. To enhance the food security status of underprivileged fish farming communities, it is recommended to focus on transferring assets and establishing NGO offices in close proximity to villages. These measures can significantly contribute to improving the food expenditure capacity of these communities.
Keywords: credit impact, food expenditure, opinion, Bangladesh
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Un espoir sous le choc : le crédit à la pêche peut-il réellement améliorer la situation des dépenses alimentaires des communautés piscicoles pauvres dans les zones rurales du Bangladesh?
RésuméLes communautés piscicoles du Bangladesh se retrouvent souvent piégées dans la pauvreté en raison de ressources limitées et d’un faible niveau de vie. Beaucoup de ces communautés sont confrontées à des contraintes financières et peinent à obtenir du crédit auprès des institutions financières formelles. Cela les oblige à se tourner vers des sources de prêt informelles aux conditions défavorables. Pour relever ce défi, des organisations non gouvernementales (ONG) ont pris l'initiative d'offrir des facilités de crédit à ces communautés piscicoles. Dans cette étude, nous avons utilisé la technique d'échantillonnage aléatoire simple (EAS) pour sélectionner 385 pisciculteurs du district de Khulna qui avaient reçu de soutien en crédit d'ONG. La technique d’appariement des coefficients de propension (ACP) a ensuite été appliquée pour évaluer l’impact du crédit à la pêche sur les dépenses alimentaires des ménages des pisciculteurs échantillonnés. Contrairement à la littérature existante suggérant que l’accès au crédit à la pêche améliore la sécurité alimentaire, nos résultats empiriques présentent une perspective différente. L'étude de régression logistique binaire (RLB) a dentifié deux facteurs influençant la capacité d'achat alimentaire des pisciculteurs : la valeur des actifs non fonciers et la proximité des succursales des ONG par rapport aux habitations des pisciculteurs. Pour améliorer la sécurité alimentaire des communautés piscicoles défavorisées, il est recommandé de se concentrer sur le transfert d’actifs et d’établir des bureaux d’ONG à proximité des villages. Ces mesures peuvent contribuer de manière significative à améliorer la capacité de dépenses alimentaires de ces communautés.
Mots-clés : Impact du crédit, dépense alimentaire, opinion, Banglades
Application of Restorative Justice Theory in Aboriginal Criminal Justice Process in Canada: An Analysis
No full textVariations 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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