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Competitiveness and environmental performance in the olive oil sector: An analysis of the Campania region.
No full textThe olive sector is an important part of agriculture in the European Union, particularly in southern countries, where it represents a significant share of the agricultural economy. Taking into account the international and national characteristics and trends of the sector, the aim of this study is to analyse the competitiveness and the environmental sostenibility of olive oil sector in Italy in order to understand the critical factors and possible competitive advantages. The environmental performance in the olive oil sector assumes a strategic importance, not only for environmental sustainability, but also as a distinctive element for the future competitiveness of Italian olive sector. This study focuses on the Campania region, chosen as an example in which this sector represents an important source of income for the local community. Even if this production has decreased considerably in recent years, it presents remarkable production excellence and this typology of cultivation, besides dominating the landscape of internal areas, offers an important contribution to soil conservation and the environmental preservation. The principal result from the analysis of this region is the presence of high professional
specialization in the farmers that favours the extreme attention of firms towards environmental performance. In addition, more than half of the people interviewed said that they reached high level of innovation, even if could be increased allowing a better focus on quality. Lastly, is possible to observe a modest and often ineffective use of public support for environmental actions
Questione ambientale e occupazione: Competitività o Convergenza
No full textGrowth, global socio-economic and demographic trends, and the dominant paradigm of well-being are the determinants to look to set sustainability strategies of economic, social, environmental, territorial and generational well-being.
Agriculture, now more than ever, has to give new answers to reformulate its strategies for development and, above all, to relocate its center of gravity in relation to these determinants.
So, this paper has looked at two issues in particular, environment and employment, like issues to be resolved by experimenting with a new approach to agriculture to overcome the challenges to the sustainability of well-being and highlighting the opportunities for agriculture to play a central role in its pursuit
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
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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