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The Major Risk
No full textA series of cognitive mapping exercises were produced in order to create an overview of global international risks and to have an at least intuitive help in setting priorities. The initial chaotic impression persisted all through this process and that was a result in itself. Combinations of risk factor appeared as the really notable risks and a few of those wereextracted. Recalling that risk developments not all follow linear or smooth trends, but jump,gave an additional alarm to the impression of an earth in a so far underestimated crisis.Time factors remain to be analyzed but it is already clear that there is more of an urgency thanthe well-known laws of entropy indicates. The current piecewise studies of risks and trends donot face that responsibility though, neither for the people nor for the administrations. Anethical perspective is also offered in this article: Will our serious alert do more good than harm? Who will benefit from the knowledge exposed of the weaknesses of our world?</p
requirements' specifications for staffing in a network organization
No full textInternational audienceThe idea of a learning organization has become accepted as a generic concept and has grown into being a well-defined management domain (Senge 1994). The term learning organization has almost become a cliché. In this article, we try to provide concrete and specific an example of an application developed within a network based staffing firm. The idea of promoting generic competences and have those better described in CVs (Curriculum Vitae) and in requirement specifications were designed and tested in an earlier project for the Swedish Defence. (Agrell 2006) Feed-back from the contracting firm prompted us to engage in a much more thorough theoretical investigation. We have identified the following steps as necessary ones in the organization of staffing operations: o negotiate with international partners about the Swedish styles of leadership and organization, o match individual competences with described leadership styles, o model pre-requisite specifications for troop and personnel and express the requirements in adapted formats throughout the staffing process, o reach an adequate balance between immediately operational abilities and those to learn and/or adapt, o identify and recruit those who have potential to acquire abilities and attitudes in due time. The experience we have gained in the for specifying the types of factors to consider for staffing in a networked organization
requirements' specifications for staffing in a network organization
No full textInternational audienceThe idea of a learning organization has become accepted as a generic concept and has grown into being a well-defined management domain (Senge 1994). The term learning organization has almost become a cliché. In this article, we try to provide concrete and specific an example of an application developed within a network based staffing firm. The idea of promoting generic competences and have those better described in CVs (Curriculum Vitae) and in requirement specifications were designed and tested in an earlier project for the Swedish Defence. (Agrell 2006) Feed-back from the contracting firm prompted us to engage in a much more thorough theoretical investigation. We have identified the following steps as necessary ones in the organization of staffing operations: o negotiate with international partners about the Swedish styles of leadership and organization, o match individual competences with described leadership styles, o model pre-requisite specifications for troop and personnel and express the requirements in adapted formats throughout the staffing process, o reach an adequate balance between immediately operational abilities and those to learn and/or adapt, o identify and recruit those who have potential to acquire abilities and attitudes in due time. The experience we have gained in the for specifying the types of factors to consider for staffing in a networked organization
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
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