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Introduction:Regional Governance, Institutional Change and Regional Development
No full textEurope is currently experiencing two parallel developments: the increasing political importance of the regional level and the proliferation of regionally-based initiatives in economic promotion and development. Both have important consequences for the distribution of the institutionalised capacity which has been established to take and influence decisions with regard to the long-term future and development of a particular locality: in short, for the patterns of regional governance. This chapter offers an insight into the relevant literature on developments in institutional and governance theory. It identifies and interprets the issues and different perspectives brought to recent debates by a range of disciplines, including economics, organisational development, politics and geography. The chapter describes the structure of the different sections on 'partnership and regional development', 'networking and regional governance' and 'regional development and multi-level governance'. A corollary, of course, is that no one discipline or approach has been adopted universally to explain the development of governance and institutions within or between countries
Institutional Change, Governance and Regional Development:Problems and Perspectives
No full textIt is hardly surprising that institutionalised cooperation has become an important feature of regional development in recent years. Especially over the last decade, the range and number of organisations which have become involved with working in partnership has increased dramatically. This has progressed to the extent that many organisations achieve their objectives by collaborating closely with other organisations. This new institutional arrangement of operating has been partially driven by the declining financial support of national governments and the resulting growth of indigenous and bottom-up policies. In many cases European or national levels of government have created strong incentives for regional actors to enter into various forms of partnership because access to additional resources from, for example, the European Structural Funds or central government. The pragmatic reasons for entering into partnership arrangements also suggest that in practice formalised cooperation in regional development may work more or less smoothly, but that making it work may entail a significant effort.<br/
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
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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