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Asset Management in an ICT Company Using ISO/IEC 19770
Get PDFAsset management refers to a system which organizations use to manage the both objective and non-objective assets with an existing value. By doing so organizations can achieve better financial results through cost reductions, satisfy the customers better with stability and improve the knowledge management. However, because of the broad scope of demands included in a standardized level of asset management, achieving a good level of such a management is rarely achieved in a large scope.
This thesis aims to develop a guideline for an ICT company about how to achieve efficient asset management for IT assets. The guideline is closely tied to the international ISO/IEC 19770 family of standards for IT asset management (ITAM). With standardized ITAM, the ICT company can have a single-point life cycle management source to provide various advantages in a long-term stability. To achieve general advantage, the set research question is “how an ICT company can achieve the ISO/IEC 19770 level of ITAM?” The study is done using active research model in a close co-operation with a Finnish ICT company. As ISO/IEC 19770 consists of multiple parts, the limitation with the target company comes as a focus on the first five parts. The rest of the standard family’s parts are covered in a more general level in this thesis.
The target company’s current state was researched and completed with the asset management’s theory. The study produced a guideline for how an ICT company can implement ITAM’s best practices which are in conformance to the ISO/IEC 19770 standard family’s parts. The guideline includes the description of the guideline, a description for a common scenario in a company with common management errors, the proposed implementation for the ITAM, the benefits and liabilities, and the post-implementation steps. As the stand-ards can be achieved in parts, the company can achieve the parts by following the guideline and the related requirements. The results of the study suggest, that a careful planning, designing and a continuous observance to the related processes are essential for achieving the best-in-class ITAM. The target company may continue the work from here by implementing the practices according to the proposed implementation guideline.fi=Opinnäytetyö kokotekstinä PDF-muodossa.|en=Thesis fulltext in PDF format.|sv=Lärdomsprov tillgängligt som fulltext i PDF-format
Ecole de formation dans le mouvement étudiant — Le séminaire d'analyse institutionnelle de Reims, 1969-19770
No full textHess Rémi. Ecole de formation dans le mouvement étudiant — Le séminaire d'analyse institutionnelle de Reims, 1969-19770. In: Autogestion et socialisme : études, débats, documents, N°13-14, 1970. Autogestion et formation. pp. 45-54
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
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