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Income Distribution, Growth and Well-Being: Evidence of a Quantitative Approach for Selected OECD Countries
No full textInternationalisation Dynamics of Small and Medium Enterprises: factors of competitive advantage
No full textCompetitiveness, in the present framework of globalisation of economic activities, is assuming a prominent role both in theoretical terms and in the process of codification of effective policies and entrepreneurial actions. In this debate, among others, many aspects related to innovation, flexibility and technological progress are normally underlined with variable emphasis. The possibility of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to gain access to these competitive factors is a major concern, since most of productive systems of different countries of the EU are largely made up of SMEs, and since their probability to survive strongly depends on their capacity to gain competitive positions on international markets. This paper deals with the concept of competitiveness considering the export performance both at a macro and at a microeconomic level. From the first point of view, the regional aggregate export performance of Umbria (NUTS 2 region of central Italy) towards Eastern Europe is considered, using the most updated data. The microeconomic analysis, based on a recent survey (Daddi et al., 2004) on Umbrian firms, specifies some characteristics of the exporting firms, and highlights some crucial aspects and constraints of the competitive strategies adopted. The case of Umbria is particularly instructive since the region represents a significant variety of the economic development pathways typical of Italian development process. The outcomes of the study provide useful information about some aspects of SMEs competitive dynamics and important implications for policy intervention in the filed of promotion of SMEs internationalisation
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
Dalla programmazione negoziata alla progettazione integrata: la regionalizzazione delle politiche di sviluppo territoriale
No full textIl contributo si concentra sulla descrizione della situazione che caratterizza la Regione Campania (a confronto con il Nord Italia) all'indomani della fase della programmazione negoziata. Presenta, infatti, un focus sulla progettazione integrata e sul Piano territoriale regionale campano. E conclude con una veloce carrellata sulla situazione delle regioni settentrionali
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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