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MeSH term explosion and author rank improve expert recommendations
No full textInformation overload is an often-cited phenomenon that reduces the productivity, efficiency and efficacy of scientists. One challenge for scientists is to find appropriate collaborators in their research. The literature describes various solutions to the problem of expertise location, but most current approaches do not appear to be very suitable for expert recommendations in biomedical research. In this study, we present the development and initial evaluation of a vector space model-based algorithm to calculate researcher similarity using four inputs: 1) MeSH terms of publications; 2) MeSH terms and author rank; 3) exploded MeSH terms; and 4) exploded MeSH terms and author rank. We developed and evaluated the algorithm using a data set of 17,525 authors and their 22,542 papers. On average, our algorithms correctly predicted 2.5 of the top 5/10 coauthors of individual scientists. Exploded MeSH and author rank outperformed all other algorithms in accuracy, followed closely by MeSH and author rank. Our results show that the accuracy of MeSH term-based matching can be enhanced with other metadata such as author rank
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
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
IMPLEMENTING A LOGISTICAL MANAGEMENT WITH THE HELP OF ELECTRONIC COMMERCE
No full textThe firm, considered to be a unitary system, disposes of a functioning mechanism defined by a few characteristics, which include: - it is a unitary ensemble with an established juridical regime and a certain functional autonomy; - it has specific in and out parameters; - it is capable of self-adjusting its activity through its own management of informational links. To do so, an important role is held by the analises of the logistical system, which implies the component of logistics, and the physics and informational flow."
THE INTERNATIONAL TRADE AS AN ELEMENT OF THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
No full textFor the beginning, the paper deals with the necessity of the participation to the world division of labour in order to prevent the growth of the disparities between the countries. We talk about the average rate of the world exports growth and the evolution of the world trade on specific countries, as well. The second part of the paper analysis the world trade with the manufactured goods and with the basic goods. A distinct part of the paper deals with the international divided into six specific goods: food, rare materials, combustibles, chemicals, cars, equipments and means of transport and other manufactured goods. Other part of the paper analyses Romania’s chronic negative sold of the trade balance. The final conclusion is that the trade policy has a significant impact on the efficiency. The trade policy is able to produce indirect effects on the labour market and the internal sold goods sector. On the other hand, the custom regulations imply institutional changes and generate shocks into the internal business environment and changes of the local attractively economy.trade balance, efficiency of the foreign trade, trade policy
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
GENERAL ORIENTATIONS OF THE MANAGEMENT OF PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY
No full textRomanian public administration and new public management are in need of a series of modernization actions resulted from theoretical progresses on European level whose application proved to have positive effects. Among these modernization actions a focus on the following aspects must be mentioned: Ensuring the proper and transparent information levels and feed-back elements and social responsibility; Encouraging a proactive and prospective professional development; Ensuring of a public administration management which should support: interdisciplinary approach, focus on the quality of the public service, supporting the public-private partnership. Dealing with such priorities can determine the beginning of the public administration’s consecration as a European public administration, based on knowledge, which will have a positive impact on the performance of a nationally representative sector.modernization of the public administration, decentralization, professionalism, social responsibility
Scholarly Communication and Publishing Lunch and Learn Talk #11: The ULS Open Access Author Fee Fund
No full textAt the May 2014 talk, you will learn about the ULS Open Access Author Fee Fund--what it is, why we do it, how it works, and how the program is going so far
The R&D Tax Incentives
No full textThis article sets out some background information and reflections of the author on the R&D tax incentive schemes included in the Common Corporate Tax Base (CCTB) Proposal. In particular the author analyzes the stimulus to private R&D through ad hoc tax incentives included in the CCTB Proposal and dives into the actual provisions included in the Proposal highlighting the most relevant issues connected with their design and interpretation. Moreover, the author explores the interaction between the CCTB Proposal and the granting by Member States of domestic R&D tax incentives
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