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Public finance, organisation and gender: the contribution of Italian School Economia Aziendale
No full textInterest in questions of gender has grown in the course of time, and the literature has come to question the motivations that should make or do make public administrations sensitive to the issue of gender equality. The correlation between public finance and gender has been investigated in the economic approach, a central issue being the assessment of gender policy outcomes at the aggregate level of regional, national and international economies. However, gender issues can also be considered within the context of individual organizations.
In relation to individual organizations, the contribution to current debate of the Italian School of Economia Aziendale (Business Management) is particularly significant. The Italian approach proposes a shift of perspective, from a conception of gender policies in the public sector as a cost or a generic duty towards equality, to a view of such policies as an activity necessary to ensure that each public agency responds effectively to the needs of its target community.
This paper emphasizes how the Italian School of Economia Aziendale (Business Management) can add to international debate by examining gender issues from two angles: the objectives pursued by public agencies (the efficacy of gender policies) and the measurement of outcomes (the efficiency of gender policies)
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
La dinamica dello sviluppo economico nell'approccio di Amoroso
No full textThe formulation of a complete theory of economic dynamics was one of the tasks left to fu-ture generations by the first generation of marginalist economists. Among those who took up the challenge in Italy, Amoroso deserves pride of place: he was considered a pioneer, both in terms of his analytical techniques and for certain interpretations he offered during the golden days of dynamic theory in the 1950s and 1960s.
The orthodox doctrine of economic equilibrium hinges on the assumption that equilib-rium is reached instantly, and that once it has been reached it endures indefinitely, on condition that the underlying conditions remain constant over time. Amoroso endeavoured to arrive at a dynamic theory of equilibrium, based on the reciprocal actions and reactions in the industrial, trade and banking sectors. Forces tend to evolve, generating opposing trends, and the dynamics in an economy are thus the result of reciprocal actions and reactions in the three sectors. Amor-oso’s conception was grounded in corporative economics, and this induced him to emphasise state intervention. However he failed to include the latter as a corrective measure with which to counteract cyclical dysfunctions in the economy. It was not until the advent of Keynesian deficit spending that certain anomalies would be overcome
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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