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Fabrication des produits : gestion des ressources et choix des méthodes
No full textCaneill Jacques. Fabrication des produits : gestion des ressources et choix des méthodes. In: Économie rurale. N°217, 1993. La qualité dans l'agro-alimentaire., sous la direction de François Clerc. pp. 60-63
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
No full text“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
No full textWe 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
No full textWe 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
Ex ante assessement of the consequences of a general adoption of IPM in arable crops in Burgundy
No full textL’agriculture française est soumise à de fortes pressions. Elle subit une injonction forte à évoluer vers l’agroécologie, à adopter les principes de la production intégrée, à réduire l’usage de pesticides. Dans ces conditions, une transition vers des systèmes agricoles plus respectueux de l’environnement ne doit pas dégrader la compétitivité des exploitations et le revenu des agriculteurs.Le travail présenté ici a pour ambition de contribuer à la réflexion sur les possibilités de changer les modèles d’agriculture. L’objectif est d’évaluer les conséquences économiques et environnementales d’une adoption généralisée des principes de protection intégrée sur une région agricole en fonction de la diversité des situations de production. La Région Bourgogne est retenue dans le cadre de ce travail. Elle dispose de ressources expérimentales en production intégrée grâce à l’investissement historique de la recherche, du développement et de l’enseignement agricole dans cette région. Par ailleurs, la Bourgogne présente un bon compromis entre la diversité de ses situations de production en grandes cultures et le nombre de situations contrastées à considérer pour rendre compte de l’ensemble du territoire. Dans un premier temps, nous avons caractérisé la diversité des situations de production de la Bourgogne et la diversité des systèmes de culture, et nous avons étudié comment les systèmes de culture sont déterminés par les situations de production. Puis nous avons mis en place une méthode pour générer des systèmes de culture optimisés sur le plan économique dans le cadre des contraintes locales et des principes de protection intégrée. Cette méthode mobilise la programmation linéaire sous contrainte, mise en œuvre avec le logiciel GAMS. Elle a été testée pour deux situations de production contrastées de la Bourgogne, correspondant aux zones de plaines sans élevage et aux plateaux argilo-calcaires superficiels. Nous avons évalué les systèmes de culture simulés pour un ensemble de critères de la durabilité économique, sociale et environnementale. Nous les avons comparés aux performances des systèmes actuels dans ces milieux.Les résultats confirment que les systèmes de culture optimisés avec les principes de la protection intégrée sont différents en fonction du contexte de production. La performance économique est plutôt améliorée par rapport aux systèmes actuels dans la situation à fort potentiel, alors qu’elle est dégradée sur les sols de plateaux. Tous les indicateurs environnementaux considérés sont améliorés dans les deux types de milieu. Le travail permet d’identifier certains inconvénients de la protection intégrée, liés à l’augmentation de la charge de travail et à la complexité de gestion des systèmes.Avec les résultats obtenus et les méthodes proposées, le travail alimente les débats sur la durabilité des systèmes agricoles dans le domaine des grandes cultures.The agriculture in France is under intense pressure. Farmers are asked to change their crop management, to evolve toward agroecology, to follow the principles of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and to reduce pesticide use. However such an evolution toward an alternative agricultural model will be possible only if innovative cropping systems are able to maintain competitive and profitable farms.The aim of our work is to contribute to the debates about this issue, by evaluating ex ante the potential consequences of adopting the principles of IPM over one whole agricultural region, taking into account the diversity of production situations within this region. We considered the Burgundy region for several reasons. This region has many experimental resources and available expertise on IPM. This agricultural area also has few but contrasted production situations. Both economic and environmental issues were considered.First, we studied the diversity of production situations and of cropping systems in the area, based on agricultural data sets, and we showed to what extent cropping systems are determined by the context. Then we developed a method to design fictive cropping systems, based on the optimisation of profitability while fulfilling the principles of IPM, and considering the constraints of the production situation. We used the GAMS software to implement this method based on linear programming. The method was tested on two contrasted production situations, namely the lowlands with high agricultural potential and no livestock, and the shallow soils of the plateau. We evaluated the generated cropping systems for a range of criteria covering different issues of sustainability, and we compared the performances to those of current cropping systems in these areas.Results corroborated that IPM-based cropping systems would be different in contrasted production situations. Profitability would be improved in the lowlands with high agricultural potential, whereas it would be negatively affected in the shallow soils of the uplands. All the environmental indicators that we used would be improved in both situations. Our work identified hindrances for the development of IPM, related for example to the increase in the workload at the farm level, and the increase in the system complexity.Both methods that we developed and the results we obtained should contribute to the current debates about the possible transition of arable cropping toward sustainability
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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