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    Proteção e competência em matéria ambiental : a (des)evolução do Plano Diretor do Município de Osório/RS

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    O presente estudo aborda o meio ambiente como bem jurídico. A partir da constatação de processos de destruição da natureza, com acidentes de resultados prejudiciais, o meio ambiente passou a receber, nos diversos países, proteção legal. No Brasil, após evolução legislativa, o meio ambiente foi trazido pela Constituição Federal de 1988 como bem jurídico, cuja proteção deve ser exercida por todos entes federados. Dentre as competências legislativas para proteção ambiental, destaca-se a dos Municípios, os quais estão mais próximos das peculiaridades dos casos concretos. O objetivo da pesquisa foi analisar necessidade e as competências para a proteção do meio ambiente, enquanto bem jurídico a ser tutelado, especialmente no que se refere aos Municípios. O estudo foi baseado em pesquisa bibliográfica e documental, com caráter exploratório. Foi possível constatar que, apesar da tutela constitucional, por vezes, as alterações legislativas são tardias e falham na proteção ao meio ambiente, a exemplo do que ocorre com o Plano Diretor do Município de Osório/RS.The present study deals with the environment as a legal good. From the discovery of processes of destruction of the nature, with accidents of harmful results, the environment began to receive, in the several countries, legal protection. In Brazil, after legislative evolution, the environment was brought by the Federal Constitution of 1988 as a legal right, which protection must be exercised by all federated entities. Among the legislative competencies for environmental protection, the municipalities stand out, which are closer to the peculiarities of concrete cases. The objective of the research was to analyze the necessity and the competences for the protection of the environment, considered as a legal right to be protected, especially concerning municipalities. The study was based on bibliographic and documentary research, with an exploratory character. It was possible to verify that, despite constitutional tutelage, sometimes legislative changes are slow and fail to protect the environment, as is the case with City of Osório’s Master Plan

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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

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    We 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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    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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

    Commentary: the judiciary and sustainable development: perspectives of a Brazilian federal judge

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    The approval of 17 goals and 169 targets for sustainable development by the United Nations Conference on Post-2015 Development Agenda is unquestionably an advancement for humanity. Economic development alone is however unsatisfactory: it must be paired with human development, respect for the environment and sound governance. Drawing from litigation and jurisprudential development from the Brazilian judiciary, this short legal commentary evaluates the role of the judiciary in promoting sustainable development, especially the attainment of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).Keywords: Brazil, Sustainable Development, Judiciar
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