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Verso il merito. Metodi di valutazione nelle pubbliche amministrazioni.
No full textLa questione del merito è sempre stata controversa e, proprio per questo, dibattuta all’interno delle amministrazioni pubbliche e private: nella dimensione lavorativa è importante non solo per l’affinità con i temi della giustizia organizzativa, ma anche per la trasparenza dei metodi utilizzati per rilevare quantitativamente e qualitativamente i comportamenti lavorativi. Il volume affronta questo delicato tema con particolare riferimento al settore della pubblica amministrazione, all’interno della quale le procedure valutative hanno trovato una maggiore resistenza rispetto ad altri ambiti lavorativi dove la cultura del merito risultava più consolidata
Shell concentrations as tools in characterizing sedimentary dynamics at sequence-bounding unconformities: examples from the lower unit of the Canoa Formation (late Pliocene, Ecuador)
No full textThe Canoa Basin in Manabì, Ecuador, contains a mainly marine, clastic sedimentary succession of Late Pliocene and Pleistocene Age (Canoa Formation and Tablazo Formation). A stratigraphic and sedimentologic study of the entire sedimentary succession indicated that sedimentary facies recur in consistent deepening–shallowing transgressive–regressive patterns and that on this basis it can be divided into three different informal units (Clow, Cupp, Tb). The lowest of these units (Clow) is composed of at least four depositional sequences, each bounded by a ravinement surface and containing a basal environmentally time-averaged shell bed accumulated during rapid sea-level rise
under conditions of reduced terrigenous sediment supply (transgressive systems tract). Owing to intense heavy bioturbation, the internal architecture of these shell beds is not recognizable. Each of these shell beds is mantled by poorly fossiliferous sandy and silty shales accumulated during subsequent progradation (highstand and regressive systems tract). Fossil assemblages, accounting for inner/middle shelf
settings, are dominated by infaunal suspension-feeding bivalves (Linga cancellaris, Chione mariae, etc.), most of which require sandy substrate or are ubiquitous. In terms of trophic/life-habit groups, the total succession shows an increase of infaunal suspension-feeder species’ richness from the lowest (C1) to the upper (C4) shell bed, whereas epifaunal taxa decrease in richness. Shell packing density also
decreases from C1 to C4. The reconstruction of the short-term sedimentary dynamics based on taphonomic and paleoecologic observations indicates a slightly progradational staking pattern of depositional sequences, representing high-frequency sixth-order eustatic sea-level fluctuations within a third-order tectonically induced cycle
A tephra chronostratigraphic framework for the Frontier Mountain blue ice field (northern Victoria Land, Antarctica)
No full textEnglacial tephra provide chronostratigraphic markers in the Antarctic ice sheets. Structural, mineralogical, geochemical and geochronological data on selected samples allowed the reconstruction of a chronostratigraphic framework for the Frontier Mountain blue-ice field-an important meteorite trap on the southeastern flank of Talos Dome in northern Victoria Land. The stratigraphic thickness of the blue-ice succession is ∼1150 m. The 40Ar- 39Ar age of one layer close to the stratigraphic bottom of the ice succession is 100±5 ka and constrains the maximum age of the bulk of Frontier Mountain blue ice. The 49±11 ka age of a second layer at a depth of ∼950 m in the stratigraphic succession indicates that >90% of the ice is younger than this value. These ages agree well with the terrestrial ages of meteorites found on the blue ice (up to 140±30 ka), suggesting a mechanism of exhumation of meteorites by ablation after englacial transport. Particle size (up to several tens of microns) and the alkaline compositional character of 22 layers allow correlation with source volcanoes within the Cenozoic magmatism associated with the West Antarctic Rift System. The proximal Mount Melbourne, Mount Rittman and The Pleiades (within a radius of ∼250 km) are the best candidate source volcanoes. The reconstructed chronostratigraphic framework thus lays the foundations for a detailed investigation of ∼100 ka of explosive volcanism in northern Victoria Land. Furthermore, in light of the ongoing ice core drilling project at Talos Dome, the Frontier Mountain ice succession may become important for establishing regional correlations, for sampling and dating key tephra layers, and for selecting ice successions for high-resolution studies of past atmospheric chemistry and fallout
The age of the ice at the Frontier Mountain blue ice field (Antarctica) constrained by Ar-40 Ar-39 chronology of Englacial tephra
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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
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