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Relaciones entre la UE y la sociedad civil de Asia Central: expectativas poco realistas, resultados desalentadores
No full textCentral Asia has endured three decades of multiple transitions. The political life of these post-Soviet states has witnessed an active phase of education and reform of the main vectors of development. The most important international actor that has supported and encouraged this process has been the European Union. From the outset, it must be stated that civil societal development has not met the expectations of the immediate post-Cold War period. Any society in transition must correlate its actions with its historical experience based not only on opportunities and flexibility related to the state but also on civil society, representing the quintessential spirit of the people, defining the contours of reform and the potential of society as a whole. One may assert that successful public change largely depends on the institutional matrix and socio-cultural features that can both drive change and create an environment of resistance. Therefore, this research aims to provide insight into the theoretical comprehension concerning Central Asian political reform expectations and to investigate the interaction between Central Asian civil society and the EU.
Received: 30 May 2022Accepted: 25 July 2022Asia Central ha soportado tres décadas de múltiples transiciones. La vida política de estos estados postsoviéticos ha sido testigo de una fase activa de educación y reforma de los principales vectores de desarrollo. El actor internacional más importante que ha apoyado y alentado este proceso ha sido la Unión Europea. Desde el principio, debe señalarse que el desarrollo de la sociedad civil no ha cumplido las expectativas del período inmediatamente posterior a la Guerra Fría. Toda sociedad en transición debe correlacionar sus acciones con su experiencia histórica basada no solo en las oportunidades y la flexibilidad relacionadas con el Estado sino también con la sociedad civil, que representa el espíritu por excelencia del pueblo, define los contornos de la reforma y el potencial de la sociedad en su conjunto. Se puede afirmar que el cambio público exitoso depende en gran medida de la matriz institucional y las características socioculturales que pueden impulsar el cambio y crear un entorno de resistencia. Por lo tanto, esta investigación tiene como objetivo proporcionar información sobre la comprensión teórica de las expectativas de reforma política de Asia Central e investigar la interacción entre la sociedad civil de Asia Central y la UE.
Recibido: 30 mayo 2022Aceptado: 25 julio 202
Zrównoważony rozwój: globalny problem
No full textSustainable development is a critically important and complex issue being addressed on a global scale. While the international community recognizes its significance, reaching a consensus on the necessary course of action remains a challenge. Extensive consultations have taken place, yet concrete measures to address pressing environmental concerns, such as the impact of global warming and climate change, still need to be included. Notably, global institutions, including the United Nations, have prioritized sustainable development on the international agenda, but conclusive strides toward mitigating these challenges still need to be made.Zrównoważony rozwój to niezwykle ważny i złożony problem, którym zajmuje się społeczność międzynarodowa. Podczas gdy społeczność międzynarodowa uznaje jego znaczenie, osiągnięcie konsensusu w sprawie niezbędnego kierunku działań pozostaje wyzwaniem. Odbyły się szerokie konsultacje, ale nadal należy uwzględnić konkretne środki mające na celu rozwiązanie pilnych problemów środowiskowych, takich jak wpływ globalnego ocieplenia i zmiany klimatu. Co ciekawe, instytucje globalne, w tym Organizacja Narodów Zjednoczonych, nadały priorytet zrównoważonemu rozwojowi na arenie międzynarodowej, ale nadal należy poczynić zdecydowane kroki w celu złagodzenia tych wyzwań
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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