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Impacts of payment for quality in the milk production chain in the west region of the Santa Catarina state
No full textA região Oeste de Santa Catarina é responsável por 72,4% do leite produzido no Estado e 5,8% do leite brasileiro e esta produção está baseada na agricultura familiar, predominando as cooperativas de produção agropecuária. A qualidade do leite é um dos fatores que mais preocupam toda a cadeia agronegocial do leite no país e os programas de pagamento por qualidade surgem como uma iniciativa para estimular todos os componentes da cadeia a investirem na melhoria da produção leiteira. Neste contexto, estão inseridas as Cooperativa “A” e “B” que possuíam entre as suas diversas atividades de produção e comércio, a área de coleta de leite entre seus sócios. A Cooperativa “B” não possuía programa de pagamento pela qualidade do leite e Cooperativa “A” implantou seu Programa de Pagamento pela Qualidade do Leite – PPQL em 2008. O objetivo do estudo foi analisar os impactos socioeconômicos e técnicos do sistema de pagamento por qualidade sobre a Cadeia Produtiva da região Oeste catarinense. Por meio de revisão de literatura, análise documental, aplicação de questionários com produtores e entrevistas com dirigentes, sob a luz da Teoria da Tomada de Decisão, identificou-se que o PPQL foi implantado na Cooperativa “A” para estimular os produtores a aumentarem o volume de produção e a cumprirem as exigências das Instruções Normativas 51 (2002) e 62 (2011). Após o início do PPQ, o número de produtores de leite estabilizou, houve um aumento na produtividade das propriedades (33,1%), no recolhimento de leite pela cooperativa (25,3%), na qualidade do leite entregue (redução de CCS e CBT), além da melhora dos preços pagos por litro aos produtores. A atividade leite é a principal atividade das propriedades (71,4%) na região, com uma produção média de 202,2 litros/dia e 14,5 litros/vaca em uma área média de 18,9 ha. Os produtores estão satisfeitos com a atividade leiteira (60,7%), conhecem o funcionamento do programa de pagamento pela qualidade (96,4%), reinvestem os valores recebidos do leite para a melhoria produtiva e consideram que o PPQL não os fideliza, pois entregariam leite à cooperativa, mesmo que este não estivesse implantado. Conclui-se que o PPQL impactou positivamente em diversos aspectos sociais, econômicos e técnicos na Cadeia Produtiva, melhorando a qualidade do leite coletado e incentivando a cooperativa e os produtores a investirem na produção.The West region of the Santa Catarina State is responsible for 72.4% of the milk produced in the state and 5.8% of the Brazilian milk and this production is based in family farming, prevailing cooperatives of agricultural production. The quality of the milk is one of the factors that most concerns the whole agribusiness chain of milk in the country and the payment programs for quality emerged as an initiative to encourage the whole chain to invest in improvements in the milk production. Are inserted in this context the Cooperatives “A” and “B” which had among their diverse activities of production and trade, the area of collecting milk among its members. The Cooperative “B” did not have a program of payment for the quality of the milk and the Cooperative “A” implanted its Program of Payment for the Quality of the Milk – PPQL in 2008. The aim of this study was to analyze the socioeconomic and technical impacts of the system of payment for quality over the Productive Chain of the West region of the Santa Catarina State. Through literature review, documentary analysis, questionnaire with producers and interviews with directors, and in the light of the Theory of Decision Making, it was identified that the PPQL was implemented in Cooperative “A” to encourage the producers to increase productions volume and meet the requirements of Instruction 62 (NI 62). After the beginning of the PPQL, the number of milk producers stabilized, there was an increase in the productivity in the farms (33.1%), in the collection of milk by the cooperative (25.3%), in the quality of the milk delivered (reduction of SCC and TBC), besides an improvement in the prices paid per liter to the producers. The milk activity is the main activity in the properties (71.4%) in this area, with an average production of 202.2 liters/day and 14.5 liters/cow in an average area of 18.9 ha. The producers are satisfied with the milk activity (60.7%), they know how the program to pay for quality works (96.4%), reinvest the amounts received of the milk to improve production and consider that the PPQL does not create loyalty because they would deliver milk to the Cooperatives even if the program had not been implemented. It was concluded that the PPQL positively impacted in many social, economical and technical aspects of the Productive Chain, improving the quality of the milk collected and encouraging the cooperative and the producers to invest in the production
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
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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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