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Virtual Volunteers: a solution looking for policing problems
No full textThis operational commentary describes an innovative approach to police volunteering that is currently being piloted in Wales, United Kingdom (UK). The programme, named Virtual Volunteers, is a partnership between students, academics and administrative staff at the University of South Wales (USW) and Tarian (the Welsh word for ‘shield’), the Regional Organised Crime Unit (ROCU) for the southern Welsh police forces. Students engage in the university intranet to review and answer policing problems posed to them by the ROCU. Such problems include, romance fraud, AI enabled crime and money laundering. This initiative is untested and while it is currently subject to a number of evaluations it remains in an early developmental stage. The intention here therefore is to record the work that is ongoing, note the progress made in terms of the programme’s development and to recognise its limitations and potential. This commentary will also include some broader insights about the strengths and weaknesses of this form of volunteering
Conclusion:Make up leeway. Future maritime criminology and policing studies
Full text linkMaritime Crime and Policing has covered a wide range of maritime topics and interdisciplinary perspectives on them. Firstly, the limited appreciation of causes of piracy may be false and require more insights into how piracy and other illicit maritime trades remain land-based problems, which require a focus on addressing the principal causes of piracy with long-term solutions. Secondly, the broader, more holistic focus on land-based causes regarding piracy is something illegal maritime migration flows and illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing would benefit from as well. Maritime policing and the challenges that come along with it also manifest themselves at the shoreside of the maritime domain, specifically ports. To be compliant and continue their operation, many of the port actors need to consume security services. Although the regulatory regime makes different security measures mandatory, it is still possible to trace resistance and skepticism among several port actors with regard to their spending on security services
Introduction:Bringing together maritime crime & policing scholars and professionals
Full text linkThe seas and oceans cover 70 percent of the earth’s surface and 80 percent of world trade by volume travels by sea. It is remarkable, especially given the abundant scrutiny of maritime security, that as a subject for professional and academic study, there is hardly any analytical interest in maritime crime and policing. All in all, the origins of one of the biggest criminological ideas (the panopticon) and that of policing principles (Peel’s) are maritime. From the oceans of interlinked maritime crimes, the people go to irregular maritime threats at the littoral sea, a specific maritime domain, which, according to Arabinda Acharya, has received barely any proper attention, whereas crime and chaos in the littoral could potentially undermine security and prosperity on a global scale. Perhaps one of the most neglected, yet interlinked, as well as irregular maritime crimes is that of illegal land reclamation
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
Hispano-Suiza Simplex aeronautical engines, Birkigt patents; instruction book, December, 1917, series no. 3A.
No full textCover-title: Instructions for the care and operation of Hispano-Suiza aeronautical engines.Mode of access: Internet
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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