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The Evolution of Lobbying in the Digital Age
No full textThis paper argues that digitalness, as the defining attribute of our era, provides an unprecedented opportunity to better understand our world and develop improved strategies for managing institutional relations. In this context, the innovative method of Digital Lobbying is introduced as a means to accurately decode a complex, intricate, and volatile society. Digital Lobbying is ultimately characterized as a positive-sum game, capitalizing on the myriad possibilities off ered by technological innovation. It employs an innovative approach that integrates these possibilities into a coherent framework, aiming to create greater value for professionals, organizations, their stakeholders, and public decision-makers. Th is method may contribute to enhancing democracy and the quality of its processes by fostering more transparent, efficient, and effective interactions within the public sphere
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
A public affairs platform for the analysis of the liberalization process in the Italian electricity market
Get PDFThe liberalization of electricity markets represents one of the most difficult challenges for the European governments, because of the conflicting interests of the stakeholders involved. In this paper, we shed light on this problem thanks to the analysis of the legislative process of the Italian law n. 124/2017, which aims at wholly reforming the electricity market. The adoption of an innovative digital platform for public affair allows us to monitor this legislative process, and to understand how the stakeholdersâ interests were transposed in the proposals of different political parties and in the final version of the law. Hence, the better understanding of the electricity market reform process, which we are able to provide with this paper, is also due to the use of a specific digital platform as an innovative tool for the analysis of similar public affairs issues
Cambiamento comportamentale ed efficienza energetica. Report Stati Generali Efficienza Energetica 2017
Get PDFLo scopo del report è fornire indicazioni utili ai vari attori interessati a strategie e progetti finalizzati al cambiamento comportamentale del consumatore finale di energia. Il cambiamento comportamentale intende contribuire al raggiungimento di un maggior risparmio energetico e una riduzione delle emissioni climalteranti, affiancando il cambiamento tecnologico (cioè l’innovazione tecnica nei processi produttivi, nei prodotti e dispositivi).
Secondo l’UE e l’Agenzia Internazionale per l’Energia, i cambiamenti comportamentali che danno luogo alla crescita della domanda di efficienza energetica (quelli direttamente collegati all’uso ottimale delle tecnologie correnti o quelli più strettamente legati a un vero e proprio cambiamento culturale) potrebbero consentire un risparmio energetico dal 5 al 20%.
Negli Stati Uniti ed in alcuni Paesi europei, tra cui Gran Bretagna, Svezia e Finlandia, aziende elettriche, imprese e policy maker stanno adottando sempre più programmi di cambiamento comportamentale come strumenti per la gestione della domanda d’energia.
Questo report, partendo da tali esperienze, intende tracciare un percorso rivolto agli operatori, ai consumatori, ai policy maker, fornendo loro uno strumento utile da inserire nella “cassetta degli attrezzi” delle politiche e delle strategie per l’efficientamento energetico
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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