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Variations on the lupus et agnus story: In search of the homo sapiens
No full textThe chapter sets out to propose a variation on the theme of the state of nature and the relationships among the individuals therein. It addresses the impact of the homo lupus construction on institution-making from the original Hobbes’s paradigm in the second section to the Buchanan’s nuanced version in the third section and finally, in the fourth section, to Frey’s formulation of it, which is only seemingly antithetic. If the chapter had ended here its title should have been ‘Variations on the lupus or agnus story’ since Hobbes’s, Buchanan’s and Frey’s reasoning has homogeneous individuals as a reference point. Our intent is instead that of introducing a fourth variation based on Smith who, by considering morally equal individuals heterogeneous, makes it possible that the lupus et agnus coexist. The evaluation of our homo sapiens, however, does not simply depend on the distance that separates the evaluator from the person to be evaluated
La regione Lazio e l'Europa. Un'analisi comparativa a livello regionale
No full textL’analisi mira a perseguire i seguenti obiettivi:
- quadro generale della finanza regionale in Italia: tendenze e prospettive
- tendenze e prospettive della finanza regionale in Europa.
Il raggiungimento di essi è realizzato attraverso lo sviluppo dei seguenti 4 filoni di indagine:
1. dalla finanza derivata alla riforma del Titolo V della Costituzione. La finanza locale in Italia: i principali avvenimenti dopo il 1992.
2. analisi comparativa dei conti economici regionali in 7 paesi UE: Germania, Francia, Regno Unito, Spagna, Irlanda, Italia.
3. il nuovo ruolo assunto dalle regioni nel contesto europeo dopo il Consiglio di Lisbona.
4. suggerimenti e prospettive per la finanza regionale italiana sulla base delle “migliori prestazioni” europee. Un nuovo ruolo per la regione Lazio
The distributional impact of inflation in Italy
No full textThe entrance of Italy in the Euro area in 2001 has risen a great debate about the perception of inflation on households’ well-being. However, most of the debate has been macroeconomic in nature, involving how to measure the “correct” common consumer price index. Much less analysis has been carried out on the microeconomic side, i.e. on the consequences of inflation on “every” household given its own consumption path. This paper addresses this issue by calculating the distributional impact of inflation for Italian households from 1997 to 2007 using data on households’ consumer expenditures. Both a descriptive and welfare analysis of price changes are performed, showing that inflation has followed an uncertain path of distributional impacts over time, yet with a large concentration of welfare losses in the period surrounding the introduction of the euro currency
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
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