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    The predictive effects of Fintech-ESG dynamic interdependence: A global perspective on Cleantech energy transition risk

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    Fintech plays an instrumental role in advancing global ESG objectives, leveraging a more inclusive, transparent, and accountable financial system. Our paper explores the occurrence of dynamic linkages between Fintech and ESG across various dimensions, examining how the strength of their interconnectedness drives the energy transition towards clean technology. Using daily data from 31st May 2018 to 1st August 2024, we apply a time-varying parameter robust Granger causality method coupled with quantile technique to provide the first attempt in the literature on the dynamic causal patterns between the strength of Fintech-ESG connection and Cleantech energy transition risk (CETR). We find asymmetry in the connectedness across different quantiles, with Fintech sectors acting primarily as shock transmitters, while most ESG indexes are receivers. The 2022 Russia-Ukraine conflict reduces the connectedness between Fintech and ESG, with minimal effects on spillover direction. Our results show a heterogeneous response to shocks in developed markets, while developing ones tend to react more homogeneously. Additionally, we find strong evidence of a time-varying causal relationship between Fintech-ESG connectedness and CETR, with the conflict exacerbating asymmetry, especially at the lower quantile. Recent trends suggest a modest resurgence in this connection, signalling a re-emergence of the Fintech-ESG connection influence on CETR. The impact of extreme events tends to taper-off over time, suggesting that the prolonged conflict-driven market environment may have stabilized sufficiently to restore Fintech's role in promoting ESG initiatives, thereby supporting the ongoing transition to clean technology

    Philippine Stock Market: What value does the selected market information hold for Filipino investors?

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    There is a high level of information efficiency in the stock market. An efficient market adjusts security prices quickly and accurately to new information, without having to digest it for very long. Often, the pace of adjustment is remarkably rapid. This study focuses on the importance of market information as assessed by 250 retail investors in the Philippine Stock Market. The participants have active accounts and engaged in active trading with selected stock brokers and are at least 18 years old and above (or the age of eligibility to open an account with a broker). The gender of the respondents had no bearing to the study, as long as they expressed willingness to accomplish the questionnaire. Actual data-gathering started from May 2016 to April 2019. The 19 selected information were classified according to macroeconomic factors, fundamental factors and market trading. To measure the importance of information by retail investors, survey instrument were constructed and utilized 5-point interval scale:1 - Not All Important; 2 – Slightly Important; 3 – Neutral; 4 - Moderately Important; 5 - Very Important, Survey questionnaires were delivered to selected stock brokers, to individual investors at the PSE lounge and distributed via FB group page using google form. The majority of investors considered the return on investment, the volume of bid/ask traded, and the P/E ratio to be most important. It is because most of the investors are millennials with less than five years trading experience and prefer to obtain information online

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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

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    We 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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    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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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