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Chapter 6 - Conclusions and policy recommendations
No full textCh. 6 draws the conclusions of the study by focussing on the following issues:
- The economics of biofuel policy and agricultural impact;
- The competition between food crops and non food crops for energy;
- The biofuel policy effectiveness;
- The impact of biofuels on agriculture;
- Territorial and structural impact;
- Environmental impact;
- Policy tools;
- Policy reccomandations
Disponibilità e consumi idrici in Italia
No full textDISPONIBILITA’ E CONSUMI IDRICI IN ITALIA
-L’Italia, un paese ricco d’acqua?
-La disponibilità di acqua piovana in Italia
-Piovosità, cambiamento climatico e desertificazione
-Le risorse idriche potenziali e la loro qualità
-Le disponibilità effettive di acqua ed il loro uso
-Il Servizio Idrico Integrato in Italia
-Il prelievo e l’erogazione di acqua potabile
-La qualità delle acque potabili
-La depurazione delle acque reflue urbane
-Conclusion
Ch. 2.1 Organisations involved into the study; Ch. 2.2 Data collection, processing and publication; Ch. 3.2.1.1 Data scope; Ch. 3.9.2 Public cons: the evaluation of the collusion risk; Annex 1 Prevention of market crisis and information systems; Annex 3 - Section 1;
No full textThis study is the feasibility analysis of a platform for data and information exchange for the European fruit and vegetables market. The platform should be: managed in partnership by the European Commission (DG AGRI) and the industry through its professional organizations; made available to Producer Organisations which are members of the platform network; focused on the most representative producer Countries (at least, France, Spain, and Italy); including an Internet-based data & information exchange system, managed by an SQL-Server database (or equivalent); and a Web Portal for the provision and the propagation of the information to the professional sector and to the public services; covering a defined list of products (apples, pears, peaches, nectarines, plums, strawberries, kiwi, asparagus, tomatoes, citrus fruits); providing data related to production, stocks, harvest campaign forecast, prices, consumptions.
The specific tasks of the study are: Legal assessment (compatibility of the platform with existing European law, and national law on competition and privacy, if relevant); Collectio
Policies and strategies to control antimicrobial resistance in livestock production: A comparative analysis of national action plans in European Union Member States
Full text linkPolicy strategies targeting imprudent antimicrobial use (AMU) in livestock farming have been established at the global and country levels, recognising the risks associated with antimicrobial resistance (AMR). This study evaluates the strategies addressing AMU and AMR in animal farms and the food supply chain in EU Member States using a multimethod approach. Our aim is to contribute to the debates surrounding the goals set by the EU Commission and the ‘Strategic framework for collaboration on antimicrobial resistance: Together for One Health’. We first review the policies, strategies and specific legislation in the European Union (EU) and Member States about AMU/AMR in livestock production. We then evaluate the national action plans for AMU reduction in the EU using the progressive management pathway tool from the FAO. Finally, we assess the measures that affect AMU reduction by applying a system generalised method of moments to a 8-year panel of the same countries. According to our results, efforts to reduce AMU could be focused on controlling excessive AMU in the pig sector. Further veterinary training on AMU/AMR and improvements in the performance of the veterinary sector, as well as strengthening the development of multisector and One Health collaboration and coordination, can also contribute to achieving better standards in AMU reduction in the livestock sector and, consequently, for AMR control
Analysis of a transient nonlinear 3-D eddy current problem with differential and integral methods
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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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