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Leadership and Innovation in Subnational Government : Case Studies from Latin America
No full textThis book is about inventing successes
and good practices of governments that are "closer to
the people." Numerous examples throughout Latin America
indicate-often despite macroeconomic instability, high
inflation, and strong top-down regulation-that subnational
actors have repeatedly achieved what their central
counterparts preached: sound policymaking, better
administration, better services, more participation, and
sustained economic development. But what makes some
governments change course and move toward innovation? What
triggers experimentation and, eventually, turns ordinary
practice into good practice? The book answers some of these
questions. It goes beyond a mere documentation of good and
best practice, which is increasingly provided through
international networks and Internet sites. Instead, it seeks
a better understanding of the origins and fates of such
successes at the micro level. The case studies and
analytical chapters seek to explain: How good practice is
born at the local level; Where innovative ideas come from;
How such ideas are introduced in a new context, successfully
implemented, and propagated locally and beyond; What donors
can do to effectively assist processes of self-induced and
bottom-up change
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
Data in support of: The relationship between Theory of Planned Behavior constructs and the ability of recreational boaters to perform AIS prevention actions
No full textThe submission consists of four main files: a data set file (Boater_survey_data_numeric_cleaned.csv), a metadata file describing all variables and survey items (Survey_metadata.txt), an analysis document (boaterBehaviorSurveyAnalysis.qmd), and a file containing multiple-imputed versions of data set (MI_full_impute.RDS). The first of these files includes numeric and categorical variables derived from field surveys and experimental AIS-removal trials. The metadata file provides full survey question text, level descriptions for all categorical variables, and value ranges for all quantitative variables. The Quarto document includes R code and narrative describing data cleaning, exploratory analyses, and our statistical modeling approach. The RDS file contains 50 imputed versions of the data set generated using the mice package in R; it is readable in R via the readRDS() function. All files are plain-text or open formats suitable for long-term access and reproducibility. The CSV and TXT files are both UTF-8.This collection contains survey and experimental data used to evaluate how recreational boaters’ intentions, attitudes, and awareness of aquatic invasive species (AIS) align with their ability to perform AIS prevention actions. During summer 2022, boaters at public water accesses in Minnesota and western Wisconsin completed standardized AIS removal trials on a staged watercraft, and then these same boaters were asked to complete a questionnaire with demographic questions as well as questions grounded in the Theory of Planned Behavior. This collection includes all data described above, the code used to examine, analyze, and graph the data, and all associated metadata.
The code herein examines links between cognitive/behavioral constructs and observed AIS removal performance and is provided in order to make our analytical workflow transparent, reviewable, reusable, and accessible. The data set and code are included to enable replication, re-analysis, review, and secondary research on boating behavior, environmental education, and AIS management. Together, the data and analysis files provide a reproducible workflow for exploring factors that influence compliance with AIS prevention practices.Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center (MAISRC); U.S. Geological Survey under Grant/Cooperative Agreement No. G21AP10208; University of Minnesota College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Sciences through the Water Resource Center.Campbell, Tim; Angell, Nichole; Gerritsen, John; Phelps, Nicholas; Bajcz, Alex. (2026). Data in support of: The relationship between Theory of Planned Behavior constructs and the ability of recreational boaters to perform AIS prevention actions. Retrieved from the Data Repository for the University of Minnesota (DRUM), https://hdl.handle.net/11299/277930
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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