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Is Existing International Environmental Law Adequate in Addressing the Challenge of Global Climate Change?
No full textThe Honorable Senior Judicial Magistrate Farjana Yesmin, Senior Judicial Magistrate, Mymensingh, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Fellow, 2012-2013 Golden Gate University School of Law/International Women Judges Graduate Fellowship Program (LL.M. in Environmental Law)
E-Wallet System for Bangladesh an Electronic Payment System
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to contribute to the design of e-wallets for Bangladesh, an Electronic Payment System (ETS). E-wallets are intended to replace the existing physical wallet, with its notes, coins, plastic cards, ATM cards and loyalty cards etc. Now a day, the challenges of payment transactions were initially underestimated. Business via the internet and mobile telephony has so far been dominated by the methods of payment systems in traditional business. However, in light of advances in technology, traditional business models are increasingly coming up against their limits. e-wallet is a convenient, easy-to-use, secure payment system. It is flexible “Electronic payment system” with a number of payout and pay-in options via bank account and Credit/Debit cards
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
Variations on the Author
No full text“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
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
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
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
Bacterial viability and biological seed treatment of canola
No full textNon-Peer ReviewedThe use of sulfur-oxidizing plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) applied as seed treatment for increasing canola yield has been reported previously (Kloepper et al., 1988; Yesmin and Banerjee, 2000). For consistent plant growth response colonization of the rhizosphere and rhizoplane by the PGPR is essential. In many cases, however, results have been variable or not comparable. Inadequate colonization of the roots by the introduced PGPR strain is considered to be a major reason for sub-optimal results (Schippers et al., 1995). Bacterial viability is one of the most important factors for successful and adequate colonization of the rhizosphere and rhizoplane that ultimately affect the plant yield. Thus, the ability of microbial inoculants to successfully colonize expanding root systems is of major importance in determining the potential success of the biological seed treatments (Parke, 1991). Seed is used as a carrier for inoculum and biologicals should be in a state where it can most effectively colonize the emerging roots. Biological activity, however, may decline rapidly between the time of inoculation and seeding to field. The present study investigates the survivals of PGPR on biologically treated seeds with non-coated (bare), peat coated and fungicide-coated seeds. Mixture of PGPR strains were also examined as that might have greater potential to give a consistent performance under different environmental and growth conditions
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