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Online Appendix_ProceduralFairness_BiasSuppression_inMulticulturalConflicts.docx
No full textOverview of the Study 1 questionnaire in "Do Minorities
Perceive Procedural Fairness Merely in Terms of Ethnic Bias Suppression?
Evaluation of the Concept of Fairness in Multicultural Conflicts"(Kim Dierckx, Alain Van Hiel & Barbara Valcke, 2018; submitted manuscript)</p
Independent media regulators: condition sine qua non for freedom of expression?
No full textThis chapter will explore the impact of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR) on the characteristics and the functioning of independent regulatory bodies in the audiovisual media sector in Europe. Does states’ duty of care under Article 10 ECHR, which protects freedom of expression, entail an obligation to establish independent media regulators (IMRs)? Is independence of regulatory bodies a conditio sine qua non for freedom of expression and for the media to fulfil their important role in democratic societies? What standards have been put forward with regard to institutional and procedural requirements in relation to regulatory oversight of the media sector? The chapter will first discuss the so-called ‘soft law’-instruments developed by the Council of Europe on the independence and functions of regulatory authorities for the broadcasting sector: the Recommendation Rec(2000)23 of 20 December 2000 (Council of Europe 2000) and the Declaration of 26 March 2008 (Council of Europe 2008). Although from a legal perspective both documents, adopted by the Committee of Ministers, are not binding on the member states, they do have moral authority and are politically persuasive. They express principles and guidelines for a common policy in the 47 member states of the Council of Europe which the Committee of Ministers has agreed on and is actively promoting. The importance of the Declarations, Recommendations and Resolutions of the Council of Europe is also reflected in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) applying Article 10 ECHR. The principles and guidelines on IMRs elaborated in Recommendation (2000)23 and Declaration 2008 are explicitly reflected in reports and opinions of the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, requesting or urging member states to review their legislation or transform their practices accordingly. The second part of the chapter will clarify how the ECHR is applied in cases where IMR are involved in, or interfered with, the right to freedom of expression of audiovisual media. Therefore the relevant jurisprudence of the ECtHR will be analysed: on the one hand, Article 10 ECHR guaranteeing the right to freedom of expression and information, and, on the other hand, Articles 6 and 13 ECHR safeguarding two procedural fundamental rights, i.e. the right to a fair trial and the right to an effective remedy. The case law of the Strasbourg Court has clarified that the right to freedom of expression and information or the right to a fair trial can be violated if structural or procedural requirements are not sufficiently guaranteed or applied by judicial or administrative authorities when they make decisions that interfere with the rights of (audiovisual) media. A fourth article also deserves attention in this context, namely Article 14 ECHR which prescribes that the enjoyment of the Convention’s rights shall be secured without discrimination on any ground
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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
Como fala um actante coletivo? : a organização FIFA encarnada por Jérôme Valcke
No full textEnquanto é crescente o volume de pesquisas sobre a agência de não humanos, o número de publicações sobre a agência de coletivos compostos por alto número de associações híbridas é muito inferior. É justamente essa problemática que este artigo pretende enfrentar. Mais especificamente, quer refletir sobre como agem as organizações. Como podem se fazer presentes, mesmo quando estão ausentes. Como suas ações deslocadas produzem diferenças. E como seus porta-vozes falam em seu nome e agem como sua própria “encarnação”. Após discussão sobre as contribuições da Teoria Ator-Rede e da Escola de Montreal para o estudo da ontologia das organizações, empreende-se uma análise da cobertura midiática das ações do secretário-geral da Fifa, Jérôme Valcke, enquanto gerenciava a finalização das obras dos estádios que sediariam jogos da Copa do Mundo no Brasil.While there is a growing volume of research on non-human agency, the number of publications on the agency of collectives composed of a large number of hybrid associations is much lower. It is precisely this problem that this article intends to address. More specifically, it wants to reflect on how organizations act. How they can be present even when they are absent. How their dislocated actions produce differences. And how their spokesmen speak on their behalf and act as their own “incarnation”. After a discussion on the contributions of Actor-Network Theory and the Montreal School to the study of the ontology of organizations, this paper undertakes an analysis of the media coverage about the actions of the general-secretary of FIFA, Jérôme Valcke, while he managed the completion of the stadiums, that would host matches of the World Cup in Brazil
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
Fire blight host-pathogen interaction: proteome profiles of <i>Erwinia amylovora</i> infecting apple rootstocks
No full textFire blight, caused by the enterobacterium Erwinia amylovora, is a destructive disease, which can affect most members of the Rosaceae family. Since no significant genomic differences have been found by others to explain differences in virulence, we used here a gel-based proteomic approach to elucidate mechanisms and key players that allow the pathogen to survive, grow and multiply inside its host. Therefore, two strains with proven difference in virulence were grown under controlled conditions in vitro as well as in planta (infected apple rootstocks). Proteomic analysis including 2DE and mass spectrometry revealed that proteins involved in transcription regulation were more abundant in the in planta condition for both strains. In addition, genes involved in RNA processing were upregulated in planta for the highly virulent strain PFB5. Moreover, the upregulation of structural components of the F0F1-ATP synthase are major findings, giving important information on the infection strategy of this devastating pathogen. Overall, this research provides the first proteomic profile of E. amylovora during infection of apple rootstocks and insights into the response of the pathogen in interaction with its host.sponsorship: Partial funding by project No. 101513 of the Agency of Innovation by Science and Technology (IWT-Flanders, Belgium) is acknowledged. Michelle Holtappels was indebted to the IWT for a predoctoral fellowship during this work. We thank Erik Royackers for technical assistance. We acknowledge the financial support from the Hercules Foundation in the framework of the project R-3986 'LC-MS@UHasselt: Linear TrapQuadrupool-Orbitrap mass spectrometer'. We acknowledge the use of the core facilities at PC Fruit in Kerkom (Belgium). Greet Clerx, Inge Hermans, Hilde Schoofs and Robin Wozniak are acknowledged for their technical support. The authors have no conflict of interest. (Agency of Innovation by Science and Technology (IWT-Flanders, Belgium)|101513, IWT, Hercules Foundation|R-3986)status: Publishe
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
Dr. Edward P. Wimberly, ITC, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Edward P. Wimberly. Dr. Wimberly talks about his book, "No Shame in Wesley's Gospel: A Twenty-First Century Pastoral Gospel". Brad Ost, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
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