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I modelli per la valutazione delle politiche di riduzione delle emissioni di gas clima-alteranti: una rassegna preliminare
No full textI modelli per la valutazione delle politiche di riduzione delle emissioni di gas clima-alteranti: una rassegna preliminare
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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
Economic modelling as a tool to support macroalgal bloom management: a case study (Sacca di Goro, Po river delta)
No full textDuring the last 20, years, intensive mollusk farming has been developed in coastal waters, mostly in sheltered bays and lagoons. Often, mollusk stocks are threatened by frequent anoxic events from macroalgal blooms. Here, a decision support tool is described to select the optimal short-term strategy to control algal biomasses. Even though long-term and detailed studies of the lagoon systems are required to provide reliable, biologically based policies, we have here developed a simplified analysis that overlooks most of the ecological complexity, but explicitly includes environmental variability and uncertainty in parameter estimation in the economic assessment of the performances of different management strategies. The aim is to quickly screen management alternatives of harvesting Ulva rigida biomass in terms of the control measures considered, i.e. the number of vessels used (the harvesting effort) and the U. rigida density at which the vessels start to operate. The decision support tool was applied to the Sacca di Goro, the southernmost coastal lagoon of the Italian Po river delta, where intensive farming of the clam Tapes philippinarum occurs. The results of the analysis indicate that an intermediate number of vessels should start operating as soon as U. rigida biomass exceeds low thresholds.Ces vingt dernières années, l'aquaculture des mollusques s'est intensifiée dans les eaux côtières, particulièrement dans des baies abritées et des lagunes. Souvent, les mollusques sont perturbés par des crises anoxiques liées à des floraisons macroalgales. Nous décrivons un outil de décision permettant de choisir la meilleure stratégie à court terme pour contrôler la biomasse des algues. Même si des études détaillées à long terme des systèmes lagunaires sont nécessaires pour définir une politique durable basée sur la biologie, nous présentons ici une analyse simplifiée qui s'affranchit d'une bonne part de la complexité écologique, mais qui inclut la variabilité de l'environnement et l'incertitude de l'estimation des paramètres dans l'approche économique des performances des différentes stratégies de gestion. L'objectif est d'examiner rapidement les scénarios de ramassage d'Ulva rigida en termes de nombre de navires utilisés (effort de pêche) et de densité d'U. rigida à laquelle les navires cessent de travailler. Cet outil de décision a été appliqué au Sacca di Goro, la lagune la plus au sud du delta du Pô, siège d'une aquaculture intensive de Tapes philippinarum. Les résultats montrent qu'un nombre intermédiaire de navires doit commencer l'opération aussitôt que la biomasse d'U. rigida dépasse les seuils bas
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
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