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Replication Data for: Inflation Expectations and the Pass-Through of Oil Prices
No full textAastveit, Knut Are, Bjørnland, Hilde C., and Cross, Jamie L., (2023) “Inflation Expectations and the Pass-Through of Oil Prices.” Review of Economics and Statistics 105:3, 733–743
Multi-Country Heat-COVID-19 Nexus Survey
No full textMulti-country, remote survey to evaluate the interplay between COVID-19 mitigation measures, heat-health, and livelihoods for populations living in densely populated urban areas. Survey data available for Pakistan, India, Indonesia, and Cameroon. Data collected remotely via mobile phone survey with ~4400 randomly identified respondents.
Answers to open questions have been cleaned, coded, and grouped within a common thematic coding framework. Temperature and humidity data sourced from www.dataandtime.com to correspond to survey dates. Heat Index (HI) calculation added to determine the incorporated effects. English language translations of answers to open questions provided by Aalok Khandekar (India), Anindrya Nastiti and Wika Maulany Fatimah (Indonesia); Kirsten Campbell (Cameroon); and Adam Abdullah (Pakistan).
Data available in CSV file format. Data generated as part of the ESRC/GCRF project "Cool Infrastructures: Life with heat in the Off Grid City (ES/T008091/1), with additional funding from the Scottish Funding Council
SUPERSEDED - Multi-country survey of heat-health during COVID-19
No full text## This item has been replaced by the one which can be found at https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/2961## Multi-country, remote survey to evaluate the interplay between COVID-19 mitigation measures, heat-health and livelihoods for populations living in densely populated urban areas. Survey data available for Pakistan, India, Indonesia and Cameroon. Data collected remotely via mobile phone survey with ~4400 randomly identified respondents. Data available in CSV file format. Data generated as part of the ESRC/GCRF project "Cool Infrastructures: Life with heat in the Off Grid City (ES/T008091/1), with additional funding from the Scottish Funding Council.Data provided in 8 files (2 survey waves per country).
Cool Infrastructures India Raw Data Wave 1.csv
Cool Infrastructures India Raw Data Wave 2.csv
Cool Infrastructures Pakistan Raw Data Wave 1.csv
Cool Infrastructures Pakistan Raw Data Wave 2.csv
Cool Infrastructures Indonesia Raw Data Wave 1.csv
Cool Infrastructures Indonesia Raw Data Wave 2.csv
Cool Infrastructures Cameroon Raw Data Wave 1.csv
Cool Infrastructures Cameroon Raw Data Wave 2.cs
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
Fixing development: breakdown, repair and disposal in Kenya's off-grid solar market
Full text linkThe development project is a repair project. Schemes and initiatives to improve the human
condition are borne from the belief that there is something broken in the status quo that
we must fix. Small solar-powered products are one such fix. Portable lanterns and multilight home systems are being distributed across sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in rural
areas, as part of efforts to reach universal energy access - a long-standing challenge of
development. Yet these products themselves, like all things, break down. This thesis
follows off-grid solar products in Kenya from moments of breakdown through sites of use,
repair and disposal.
The first half of the thesis looks at the historical development of the technology and the
market that has grown up with and around it. Assemblage thinking shows that breakdown
is more than a material process but is shaped by wider influences such as business and
product design as well. The second half of the thesis describes what happens to the broken
down solar product as it moves and is moved through Kenya. Despite differences in
appearance and process in three different settings – the home, the repair clinic and the
company - the thesis finds consistencies in people’s responses to breakdown.
These
consistencies appear as a form of bricolage as people draw on previous experience and
make use of resources at-hand to reach an acceptable, if at times limited, functionality for
their products. Disposal of that which is not repaired is found to always be prefaced by an
indefinite period of waiting.
The thesis is based on 16 months of fieldwork across the country which included
observation of independent and company repair practices and rural and urban waste
management processes. 44 interviews were conducted with independent repairmen,
company representatives and other relevant individuals. Further information is drawn from
a telephone survey of 262 users of solar products.
If the macro project of international development is to fix the broken world, then this thesis
argues it may benefit from closer examination of micro repair practices. By embracing the
inevitability of future breakdown and adopting the principles of bricolage development
might get closer to the improved world it aims for
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
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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