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Replication Data for: Italy’s return to Africa: between external and domestic drivers
No full textA steadily increasing number of European countries recently adopted their own ‘Africa policies’. The temporal and geographical clustering of such plans suggests that a policy diffusion process might have been at play, with the introduction and the shape of a policy in a given country being influenced by those of other countries. This paper tests the policy diffusion hypothesis through an in-depth analysis of the case of Italy, a country that in recent times stepped up substantially its engagement with sub-Saharan Africa. Tracing the origins and features of Rome’s policy towards the region, however, shows that external influences were much more limited than expected. It was primarily two country-specific drivers – namely, the enduring effects of the European debt crisis on the Italian economy and a sudden and massive, if temporary, increase in irregular migration – which pushed Italy towards Africa and shaped its approach. The paper thus sheds light on how the marked resemblance of policies almost contemporaneously adopted by distinct EU member states – that is, a tight succession and a highly interconnected environment strongly pointing at cross-country influences – can hide motives and processes that are actually highly specific to each of them and essentially by-pass policy diffusion dynamics
Sandro Paolo Carbone & Giovanni Rizzi, Osea. Lettura ebraica, greca e aramaica (coll. Testi e Commenti - La Parola e la sua tradizione, 1). 1993 Sandro Paolo Carbone & Giovanni Rizzi, Amos. Lettura ebraica, greca e aramaica (coll. Testi e Commenti - La Parola e la sua tradizione, 2). 1993
No full textWénin André. Sandro Paolo Carbone & Giovanni Rizzi, Osea. Lettura ebraica, greca e aramaica (coll. Testi e Commenti - La Parola e la sua tradizione, 1). 1993 Sandro Paolo Carbone & Giovanni Rizzi, Amos. Lettura ebraica, greca e aramaica (coll. Testi e Commenti - La Parola e la sua tradizione, 2). 1993. In: Revue théologique de Louvain, 27ᵉ année, fasc. 1, 1996. pp. 98-99
Sandro Paolo Carbone & Giovanni Rizzi, Osea. Lettura ebraica, greca e aramaica (coll. Testi e Commenti - La Parola e la sua tradizione, 1). 1993 Sandro Paolo Carbone & Giovanni Rizzi, Amos. Lettura ebraica, greca e aramaica (coll. Testi e Commenti - La Parola e la sua tradizione, 2). 1993
No full textWénin André. Sandro Paolo Carbone & Giovanni Rizzi, Osea. Lettura ebraica, greca e aramaica (coll. Testi e Commenti - La Parola e la sua tradizione, 1). 1993 Sandro Paolo Carbone & Giovanni Rizzi, Amos. Lettura ebraica, greca e aramaica (coll. Testi e Commenti - La Parola e la sua tradizione, 2). 1993. In: Revue théologique de Louvain, 27ᵉ année, fasc. 1, 1996. pp. 98-99
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
An energy management software for smart buildings with V2G and BESS
No full textThis paper presents the results of a research activity in the framework of electric load managementin buildings. The buildings are supposed to be smart; they are connected to the electric network butthey are also equipped with PV plants for integration of the electric energy request with the relevantstorage batteries. The idea behind is to use batteries of electric vehicles (present in the parking areasof the buildings) as supplementary storage systems. An algorithm is discussed, based on optimizationtechniques, that allows maximizing the number of electric appliances that can be fed in conditions ofpower limitation. The algorithm is purely numeric, and has been built with the idea to implement it in asoftware package that has been produced by the authors. Finally, a case study is presented which allowsevaluating the reliability and the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms and of the software
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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