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Can ISO:14063 be a tool to plan the environmental communication strategy of a territorial area?
No full textCan ISO:14063 be a tool to plan the environmental
communication strategy of a territorial area
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
ISO 14063 : driving forces and new benefits in environmental communication
No full textThe enterprises of today are beginning to realize that environmental issues are a important part of their activity. Companies and organizations are expected to a greater extent communicate their environmental work to the world surrounding them in a trustworthy and structured way. Lack of information or information that is incorrect may bring farreaching consequences. Communication is mentioned in several of the ISO 14001-standards. But what is missing is a guideline how companies should act to create and be sure of the quality of the data that can be used in the environmental communication. There are a lot of report standards but little is said about how the company should conduct their environmental communication. The companies have, many times, not identified their stakeholders to create a picture of what the stakeholders demand. Furthermore, the dialogue with their stakeholders is occurring without planning or any preparation. In the year of 2000, a new ISO standard was created, which was named ISO 14063. It provides a guideline for environmental communication.
The aim of the master's thesis is to examine in what way the new standard, ISO 14063, can guidance in their environmental communication efforts. Questions of special interest are; is the standard needed? Can the new standard give companies any new benefits such as economic profit or reduced costs? Will companies be able to use it in their daily work? Can the standard help companies to improve their dialogue with the surrounding world?
A selection of ten companies in five different branches has been done for the interviews about environmental communication. The questions are asked about the content of the ISO 14063 standard, but they do not go in to it directly except for one question. Because none of the companies have had the time to read the standard or worked with it yet. One interview has been conducted in each company, except for some cases when we had to complement with another contact in the same company.
Our study led to the following conclusions: One driving force for the standard is that it is a guideline and not a standard of demands. Another driving force is that the companies need to improve their environmental communication to reach out with the right message to their stakeholders. We consider the standard as needed, because the companies express an interest for it and they lack in their identification of strategic stakeholders. The future benefits for the companies lie in that the companies have a need to improve their environmental communication to receive economic profits. The companies can reduce their costs by being aware and honest in their communication, which avoids misunderstandings. We believe that the standard will be used by the companies in their daily work without any great costs. We also believe that the standard can be a good help for the companies to improve their dialogue with the surrounding world thanks to the fact that it is a guideline. The companies can use the parts of the standard that is necessary in different situations. A successful creation of a sustainable environment requires the interplay between markets. Profitability and environment must be balanced, and the condition for this balance is a good communication.Dagens företag börjar i allt större utsträckning inse att miljö är en viktig del i deras verksamhet.
Företag och organisationer förväntas i allt högre utsträckning kommunicera sitt miljöarbete
till omvärlden på ett trovärdigt och strukturerat sätt. Brist på information eller information
som är felaktig kan få långtgående konsekvenser för en organisation. Kommunikation
berörs i flera av standarderna i ISO 14001-serien. Det saknas däremot en vägledning hur företag
bör gå tillväga för att ta fram och kvalitetssäkra data som senare kan användas i miljökommunikationen.
Det finns många olika rapportstandarder, men ingen som konkret handlar
om hur företaget ska gå tillväga i sin miljökommunikation. Företagen har många gånger inte
identifierat sina intressenter och skapat sig en bild av vad dessa efterfrågar. Dessutom sker
många gånger företagens dialog med intressenterna oplanerat utan några förberedelser. År
2000 togs en ny ISO-standard fram, vilken kom att kallas ISO 14063 och behandlar ämnet
miljökommunikation. Syftet med examensarbetet är att undersöka på vilket sätt standarden ISO 14063 kan ge företagen
nya drivkrafter. Frågor av speciellt intresse är då; Behövs standarden? Kan den nya
standarden ge företag någon ny nytta som ekonomiska vinster eller minskade kostnader?
Kommer den att kunna användas av företagen i deras dagliga arbete? Kan standarden hjälpa
företaget att förbättra sin dialog med omvärlden?
Ett urval på tio företag i fem olika branscher gjordes för intervjuerna kring miljökommunikation.
Frågorna är ställda kring upplägget av ISO 14063-standarden men går inte in direkt på
den, utom i en fråga, eftersom nästan inget företag har hunnit sätt sig in i standarden, eller
arbetat efter den ännu. Det har gjorts en intervju i varje företag utom i ett par fall då det behövts
komplettera med en annan kontaktperson inom samma företag. Vår studie ledde fram till följande slutsatser: En drivkraft för standarden ligger i att den är en
guideline och inte en kravstandard. En annan drivkraft är att företagen behöver förbättra sin
miljökommunikation för att nå ut med rätt budskap till sina intressenter. Vi anser att standarden
behövs, eftersom företagen uttrycker ett intresse för den och brister i sin identifiering av
intressenter. Den framtida nyttan för företagen ligger i att företagen har ett behov av att förbättra
sin miljökommunikation för att bl a öka sina ekonomiska vinster. Företagen kan minska
sina kostnader genom att de är medvetna och ärliga i sin kommunikation, vilket gör att missförstånd
undviks.
Vi tror att standarden kommer att kunna användas av företagen i deras dagliga arbete utan att
detta medför några större merkostnader. Vi tror även att standarden kan vara till god hjälp för
företagen att förbättra sin dialog med omvärlden tack vare att det är en guideline. Företagen
kan använda de delar av standarden som känns relevanta i olika situationer. För att vi skall
lyckas skapa ett hållbart samhälle så måste samspelet mellan marknad, lönsamhet och miljö
fungera, grundbultarna i detta är då en god kommunikation
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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