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Resources, Collaborators, and Neighbors: The Three-Pronged Challenge in the Implementation of Bioeconomy Regions
No full textOver the last decade, the bioeconomy has become increasingly important and visible in
international policy agendas, with several strategies being recently developed. The implementation of
bio-based technologies mostly takes place on a regional scale. Therefore, from a regional perspective,
a key question revolves around what main challenges are associated with technological developments
that could catalyze the implementation of sustainable bioeconomy regions. In this study, a cross-cutting
analysis was carried out to determine these challenges. First, interviews were conducted with industry
practitioners and scientists working in the bioeconomy field. These interviews were supplemented
with a literature review to determine the status quo of bioeconomy strategies and their implementation,
particularly on a regional level. A multidisciplinary workshop was then organized to identify the
most relevant challenges in the short- and mid-term associated with establishing bioeconomy regions.
The results show that there is a three-pronged challenge in innovative technological development from
a regional perspective: (1) Resources: The establishment of sustainable regional feedstock strategies
and supplies for supporting the bio-industrial sector; (2) collaborators: The establishment of a regional
“critical mass” by fostering supply chain clusters and networks; and (3) neighbors: Understanding
the local dynamics of societal trends and preferences and social acceptance of bio-technologies and
their representative bio-based products
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
Sustainability issues of by-product and waste management systems to produce building material commodities
No full textVariations 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
Sustainability issues of by-product and waste management systems, to produce building material commodities: A comprehensive review of findings from a Virtual Special Issue
No full textThis Virtual Special Issue1 (VSI) was accommodated in this journal to motivate prominent researchers to explore the relevance of addressing - and possibly interconnecting - those aspects for the assessment, improvement, encouragement and promotion of sustainability of by-product and waste management systems as involved in the production of building material commodities.
Finally, this editorial arises with the aim of reviewing and building upon the papers that have been included in this VSI, to highlight main objectives and findings and so their contributions to the specialised literature
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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