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Postal services in the digital age
No full textIn recent years, the postal sector has undergone radical changes, which have primarily been driven by operational and technological developments. Not only has the advent of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) added competition to the market, but it has also provided ample opportunity for the broadening and improvement of services and product range. This book deals with the challenges faced by the postal sector in the digital age, and with the vast opportunities that technological advancements offer postal operators with regard to developing new business solutions and services tailored to the needs of their customers. It provides an analysis of these opportunities and identifies the ways in which postal operators might benefit from the digital age and new market requirements. The book is divided into three main parts: various digital dimensions; e-commerce challenges; and opportunities for partnership with governments. A final chapter discusses the developments described in the book and the views and ideas of the authors. The book will be of interest to all those responsible for developing and running postal services, as well as to anyone affected by the changes which have already taken place or the possibilities opening up for new and improved services.-- Editors and Contributors
-- Foreword, Bishar Abdirahman Hussein
-- Preface, Matthias Finger, Bernhard Bukovc and Muqbil Burhan
-- Introduction: Postal Services in the Digital Age, Matthias Finger
-- Section I. The Digital Dimensions
-- Character of Substitution and Its Significance for Letter Demand: The Finnish Case, Heikki Nikali
-- The Journey of Postal Operators into Digital Services Using the Concept of Business Models, Nandkumar Kollara
-- How to Become a Best-Run Postal Service Organization, Michaela Hohlwein and Hans G. Landgraf
-- The Digital Postal Network at the Heart of Service Innovation, Paul Donohoe
-- Section II. The e-Commerce Challenge
-- Postal Organisations in the Face of eCommerce: Part of the Steamroller or Part of the Road?, Richard Umbers
-- Postal Service Innovation: New Value Propositions to Enable International e-Commerce, Farah Abdallah
-- The New and Shifting Paradigm, e-Commerce and Its Future Impact, David Spottiswood
-- Section III. Partnering with Governments
-- Swiss Post and Public Administration: From Physical to Digital, Denis Morel
-- Postal Operators as Viable e-Government Partners: A Case Study of Three Major Postal Operators, Muqbil Burhan
-- Section IV. Thinking Ahead
-- Evolved: The New Systems of the World, David Williams
-- Intellectual Property Rights and the Future of Universal Service Obligations in Communications, Christian Jaag
-- Connectors and Solution Providers – Postal Services in the Digital Age, Bernhard Bukovc
-- Subject Index
-- Author Inde
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
Management of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer by Public Funded Research Organizations in India: A Case of CSIR
No full text398-410This study analyses the patents filed and
technologies licensed by network of Indian laboratories under world’s one of
the largest Public Funded Research Organization (PFRO) - Council of Scientific
& Industrial Research (CSIR). A case study approach is followed based on
secondary data collected from annual reports of CSIR laboratories, official
websites, government data repositories and through Right to Information (RTI)
applications filed (under RTI Act 2005, Government of India). The study
analyzes various characteristics of patents filed and technologies licensed by
CSIR laboratories and, using grounded theory approach, substantiated the
analysis with existing literature to enhance robustness. It was attempted to establish relation between Extra
Budgetory Resources generated, patents filed and technologies transferred by
CSIR laboratories
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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