1,721,001 research outputs found
The Vsl For Children And Adults: Evidence From Conjoint Choice Experiments In Milan, Italy
No full textCapire il Territorio attraverso l’e-Governance: Il Caso di Studio di Genova
Full text linkUnderstanding the Territory Using e-Governance: The Genoa Case Study
Abstract
Participatory tools are an important challenge to local communities to promote a new concept of the territory management. In the digital era, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and web-based services can play an important role in this context.
This study presents a methodological framework for e-governance which has been used in the context of a specific case study built for an Italian city (Genoa). The case study is part of the EU FP6 Project ISAAC “Integrated e-Services for Advanced Access to Heritage in Cultural Tourist Destinations”. The method is designed to involve different stakeholders – residents, tourist, service providers and decision-makers –in the management of the territory and the urban cultural heritage, built on user preferences and satisfaction.
The model proposed has been used first to identify the cultural sites taking into account the perceptions of the different stakeholders, as well as to recognize the intangible values linked with the territory based on the personal interpretation of the territory. Secondly, a “desired” level of participation and interactivity of the on line services has been defined, based on individual preferences.
Results show that e-participation processes are still insufficiently developed and recognised by the different stakeholders. Citizens are aware of the potential of the web as an instrument to provide information in passive attitude. Enabling the communication among citizens and the public administrations is also appreciated. However, the use of the web to improve decision-making of the territory in a participatory process is much lagging behind
Public Policies for Contaminated Site Cleanup: Evidence from a Survey of the Italian Public
No full textCleaning up contaminated sites is currently considered one of the most important environmental policy priorities in many countries. Remediation of contaminated sites is attractive because it reduces risks to human health and ecological systems, and brings a host of potential social and economic benefits.
Public programmes are deemed necessary by the law and in practice to address contamination at orphan site and to speed up the general processes of cleanups in most countries. People’s opinion regarding these programmes in general and the priorities to be addressed is useful and pertinent given the large amount of resources to be devoted to the goal of remediation. In this work, we present the result of a national survey of the Italian public
Willingness to Pay for Contaminated Site Cleanup Policies: Evidence from a Conjoint Choice Study in Italy
No full textWe use conjoint choice experiments to study the preferences of people living in areas with contaminated sites in Italy for public programs that would address the human health risks associated with these sites. The attributes of the alternative (and hypothetical) programs shown to our survey respondents are the size of the mortality risk reductions, the size of the population affected by the program, the timing of the risk reduction, the number of years the risk reduction would be experienced for, and the cost to the respondent’s household. The responses to the choice questions satisfy scope requirements and show that people care—and are willing to pay more for—for risk reductions sustained over a long time. This in turn implies a preference for permanent remediation.
People discount future risk reductions at a rate of about 6.25%
Addressing the problem of contaminated sites remediation: preliminary results from a survey of the Italian public
No full text
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
- …
