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The Age of Uncertainty: Self-Determination and the Limits of Sovereignty
No full textValentina Chabert, a scholar from Sapienza University of Rome and editor-in-chief of Opinio Juris, approached the Nagorno-Karabagh conflict from an international law perspective and discussed the differing interpretations of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. She elucidated on the origins of the Republic of Artsakh, referred to the UN Security Council resolutions concerning Nagorno-Karabagh as a region of Azerbaijan, and explored the issue of the Lachin corridor blockade
Georgia: a study case of lawfare
No full textThe 26th of October marked a watershed moment for Georgia’s recent history. Unlike Western and the same population’s forecasts, the ruling party Georgian Dream – in power since 2012 – obtained the majority of votes by defeating oppositions and rekindling fears of an authoritarian move that could push Georgia away from the European Union, in favour of its inclusion under Moscow’s sphere of influence. The trajectory followed by Georgia in the last two years and in particular by the government party represents what is commonly described as “the strategic use of law in global politics” or “lawfare”, i.e. the use of the legislative instrument (domestic or international) in order to pursue specific international politics objectives
The contractualization of environmental protection in international law: exploring legal and governance solutions for post-conflict reconstruction in Azerbaijan
No full textWithin the context of the thirty-year long conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, numerous environmental damages have been committed by the conflicting parties and by private companies operating under their sovereignty in the formerly occupied territories of Azerbaijan. By providing an overview of the wrongful activities having caused severe harm to the natural environment of Azerbaijan and covering a period from the First to the Second Karabakh war, this paper aims to explore legal and governance solutions for the post-conflict reconstruction of the damaged areas as a means to achieve reconciliation through environmental accountability. Specifically, the ultimate objective of this paper lays in the proposal of a contractual approach to environmental protection, namely the incorporation of environmental protection clauses within contracts concluded between government agencies and foreign corporations. More precisely, the contractualization approach is intended to be applied both to corporate activities and during the reconstruction of the conflict-affected areas of Azerbaijan, especially in the field of mineral resource extraction, reconstruction of infrastructure and transportation lines and foreign investments. This legal solution would eventually overcome the drawbacks of international law in the field of corporate environmental accountability and characterize as governance approach to prevent future damage to the natural environment on the part of private companies operating in the territories of Azerbaijan. Ultimately, the successful application of the contractualization approach in Azerbaijan could spur the employment of the same approach to other regions of the world equally affected by corporate environmental damages during and after armed conflicts
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
Variations 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
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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