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La preferenza di genere nei concorsi pubblici: principi, regole e paradossi
No full textThe volume Affirmative Actions after the NRRP collects the proceedings of the seminar held on March 8, 2024. It builds on discussions that began in 2022 through an initiative by the University of Brescia and the University of Verona, under the patronage of the LLC – Labour Law Community and the IEN – Italian Equality Network, focusing on key issues in gender-sensitive labor law.
The scientific discussion accompanying the seminar focuses on a specific issue: the neutralization of positive actions, which are now applied not just in favor of women but also to support the underrepresented sex. This shift calls for a reevaluation of the foundational values behind differential treatment, in order to assess how recent legislative changes align with their original rationale and structure.
The in-depth analyses presented in the volume, which expand upon the discussions held in Brescia, include Cristina Alessi's reexamination of the concept of positive actions between domestic and EU law: principles and application tools. Laura Calafà explores the use of gender preference in public competitions, analyzing its principles, rules, and inherent paradoxes in light of the objectives set by the Italian NRRP. Also, within the NRRP framework, Madia D’Onghia investigates the system of gender-based incentives in public administration. Contributions by Barbara Pezzini and Thomas Casadei further enrich the discussion by offering insights from the perspectives of constitutional law and legal philosophy.
The volume concludes with Marzia Barbera's reflections on the debates surrounding the complex theoretical and practical challenges of the present: “accepting the challenge posed by the conservative reinterpretation of equality as mere formal equality. Just like justice, equality has many faces, some of which are distorted masks shaped by ideology. What lies ahead is, first and foremost, an effort to unveil these distortions. That we can face this challenge together, I believe, is an invaluable source of strength”
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
Two sides of the same coin: Green Taxonomy alignment versus transition risk in financial portfolios
Full text linkWe develop the first top-down method to estimate the greenness of financial portfolios, in terms of alignment to the EU Taxonomy for sustainable activities. We also develop a method to estimate, at the same time, the portfolio exposure to climate transition risk. We provide sector-level, standardized and transparent coefficients for both estimates, based on definitions of greenness and transition risk that are applicable across countries. We analyse the portfolios of Euro Area investors in 2022, based on the confidential Securities Holdings Statistics of the European Central Bank. We find that, overall, the greenness of Euro Area investors’ portfolios is lower than their exposure to transition risk (2.8% vs. 11.7%).
Across financial institutions, we estimate greenness and exposure to transition risk, respectively, at 3.2% and 12% for investment funds, at 0.8% and 5% for banks and at 4.8% and 15.1% for insurers. Our analysis also shows that investors with large amounts invested in green activities can have at the same time large exposures to transition risk
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
Anisotropic jump model of the rotational dynamics in glasses
No full textAnisotropic jump reorientation occurs in glasses, polymers, and plastic crystals. A general theoretical frame to describe such processes is presented. It generalizes previous work by Ivanov [Sov. Phys. JETP 18, 1041 (1964)]. A tractable model is given by a simple phenomenological assumption on the jump distribution. Analytical results and fast numerical methods to evaluate the relevant quantities are derived. The model is validated by comparing the predictions with ESR experiments on stiff, cylindrical tracers dissolved in the glassformer o-terphenyl. (C) 2001 American Institute of Physics
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