532 research outputs found
Measuring industry-science links through inventor-author relations: A profiling method
Full text linkIn this pilot study we examine the performance of text-based profiling in recovering a set of validated inventor-author links. In a first step we match patents and publications solely based on their similarity in content. Next, we compare inventor and author names on the highest ranked matches for the occurrence of name matches. Finally, we compare these candidate matches with the names listed in a validated set of inventor-author names. Our text-based profile methodology performs significantly better than a random matching of patents and publications, suggesting that text-based profiling is a valuable complementary tool to the name searches used in previous studies.innovation; industry-science links; text-based profiling;
Hoogwater 2021 Households Repository covering the flood events in Limburg NL
No full textDataset that describes the flood event of July 2021 in Limburg, the Netherlands. Several hazard, exposure and vulnerability characteristics of households are included in combination with the damage ratio to their home and household contents. </p
The influence of author self-citations on bibliometric macro indicators
No full textIn a recent paper the authors have studied the role of author self-citations within the process of documented scientific communication. Two important regularities such as the relative fast ageing of self-citations with respect to foreign citations and the "square-root law" characterising the conditional expectation of self-citations for given number of foreign citation have been found studying the phenomenon of author self-citations at the macro level. The goal of the present paper is to study the effect of author self-citations on macro indicators. The analysis of citation based indicators for 15 fields in the sciences, social sciences and humanities substantiates that at this level of aggregation there is no need for any revision of national indicators and the underlying journal citation measures in the context of excluding self-citations.status: Publishe
The influence of author self-citations on bibliometric macro indicators.
No full textIn a recent paper the authors have studied the role of author self-citations within the process of documented scientific communication. Two important regularities such as the relative fast ageing of self-citations with respect to foreign citations and the "square-root law" characterising the conditional expectation of self-citations for given number of foreign citation have been found studying the phenomenon of author self-citations at the macro level. The goal of the present paper is to study the effect of author self-citations on macro indicators. The analysis of citation based indicators for 15 fields in the sciences, social sciences and humanities substantiates that at this level of aggregation there is no need for any revision of national indicators and the underlying journal citation measures in the context of excluding self-citations.science fields; patterns;
A New Framework for the Citation Indexing Paradigm
Full text linkA new citation indexing paradigm is proposed: the cascading citation indexing framework (c2IF, for short). It improves the way research publications are assessed for their impact in promoting science and technology. Given a collection of articles and their citation graph, citations are considered at the (article, author) level. Each one article is uniquely identified by means of the Digital Object Identifier (DOI, http://www.doi.org). To identify each one author uniquely, a Universal Author Identifier (UAI) scheme is established. In addition to the citations directly made to a given (article, author) pair, citation paths that target each one citing article are also considered. The granularity of the paradigm is further increased by introducing the concept of the chord, whereby a citation path of length one co-exists with paths of length two or higher, involving the same source- and target- articles. The c2IF output emerges in the form
of a medal standings table, analogous to the one that ranks teams at athletic events: when two (article, author) pairs receive the same number of (direct) citations, the one that is cited by more popular articles (i.e. articles that comprise targets to a larger number of paths in the citation graph), is assigned a higher rank value
About the New Architect
No full textWith over 40 years of experience as a lecturer, architect and driver of architectural policy, Thijs Asselbergs looks ahead in About the new architect. In response to conversations with students, Asselbergs shares his personal perspective on the profession and explains how ‘the new architect’ should be shaped.In 2008, when Thijs Asselbergs had just taken up his position as professor at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), the investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed. It ushered in the financial crisis, which had an enormous impact on the construction industry and architecture. Over half of the architects at the time lost assignments or quit altogether. This led to a rise in small architectural firms with all kinds of new forms of collaboration. What does the future of architecture look like after that turbulent history? Which challenges await the current generation of architects in times of far-reaching economic and climatic changes? And what is the difference between the old and the new architect?Architectural Technolog
NIOD REWIND Episode 15: Forced Disappearances Under Apartheid South Africa
No full textAnne van Mourik and Thijs Bouwknegt interview historian Kylie Thomas and journalist Michael Schmidt, discussing forced disappearances under Apartheid South Africa. Michael is the author of Death Flight: Apartheid's secret doctrine of disappearance, which investigates and tells the history of Apartheid’s chilling tactic of throwing people, dead or alive, from airplanes so that their remains cannot be found. A Truth and Reconciliation Commission on human rights violations during the Apartheid years was established in 1995. Kylie Thomas researches and writes about the 2017 reopening of the Apartheid cases. Who exactly were the people who were targeted for ‘disappearance’? And how come cases of activists who were imprisoned, tortured and murdered, are only now being reinvestigated and reopened
A default nudge in waste management: Assessing the impact of explicit consent for unaddressed mail
Full text linkOn 1 January 2018, the municipality of Amsterdam changed the system for the reception of unaddressed mail from presumed consent to explicit consent to reduce paper waste. This policy can be defined as a default nudge. The no-choice population received unaddressed mail in the presumed consent system but not in the new explicit consent system. Residents receive unaddressed mail only when they actively decide to put an opt-in sticker on their mailbox. This study assesses the effectiveness and social benefits of this nudge. The effect on paper waste is estimated using a difference-in-differences approach in which several other Dutch municipalities function as the control group. Our main finding is that the default nudge results in a reduction of paper waste between 5.3% and 11%. Social benefits of this reduction include, for example, lower carbon emissions for collection and transport for paper waste, which are equivalent to yearly benefits between approximately €135,000 and €285,000 in Amsterdam. If all Dutch municipalities implement the system of explicit consent for unaddressed mail, the yearly benefits are approximately between €14 million and €30 million. The default nudge is a low-cost policy to implement and, therefore, offers municipal policymakers a cost-effective way to reduce waste
Design of the Pregnancy REmote MOnitoring II study (PREMOM II): a multicenter, randomized controlled trial of remote monitoring for gestational hypertensive disorders
No full textBackgroundObservational data from the retrospective, non-randomized Pregnancy REmote MOnitoring I (PREMOM I) study showed that remote monitoring (RM) may be beneficial for prenatal observation of women at risk for gestational hypertensive disorders (GHD) in terms of clinical outcomes, health economics, and stakeholder perceptions. PREMOM II is a prospective, randomized, multicenter follow-up study that was performed to explore these promising results.MethodsAfter providing written consent, 3922 pregnant women aged >= 18years who are at increased risk of developing GHD will be randomized (1:1:1 ratio) to (a) conventional care (control group), (b) a patient self-monitoring group, and (c) a midwife-assisted RM group. The women in each group will be further divided (1:1 ratio) to evaluate the outcomes of targeted or non-targeted (conventional) antihypertensive medication. Women will be recruited in five hospitals in Flanders, Belgium: Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg, Universitaire Ziekenhuis Antwerpen, Universitaire Ziekenhuis Leuven, AZ Sint Jan Brugge-Oostende, and AZ Sint Lucas Brugge. The primary outcomes are: (1) numbers and types of prenatal visits; (2) maternal outcomes; (3) neonatal outcomes; (4) the applicability and performance of RM; and (5) compliance with RM and self-monitoring. The secondary outcomes are: (1) cost-effectiveness and willingness to pay; (2) patient-reported outcome measures (PROMS) questionnaires on the experiences of the participants; and (3) the maternal and perinatal outcomes according to the type of antihypertensive medication. Demographic, and maternal and neonatal outcomes are collected from the patients' electronic records. Blood pressure and compliance rate will be obtained from an online digital coordination platform for remote data handling. Information about the healthcare-related costs will be obtained from the National Coordination Committee of Belgian Health Insurance Companies (Intermutualistisch Agentschap). PROMS will be assessed using validated questionnaires.DiscussionTo our knowledge, this is the first randomized trial comparing midwife-assisted RM and self-monitoring of prenatal blood pressure versus conventional management among women at increased risk of GHD. Positive results of this study may lead to a practical framework for caregivers, hospital management, and payers to introduce RM into the prenatal care programs of high-risk pregnancies.Trial registrationThis study was registered on clinicaltrials.gov, identification number NCT04031430. Registered 24 July 2019, https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04031430?cond=premom+ii&draw=2&rank=1.This study is supported by a grant from the Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (FWO) with and Applied Biomedical Research with a Primary Social finality (TBM) project: T004018N. The FWO is a Public Utility Foundation which as granted legal personality by the Royal Decree of 20 January 200. The grant of the FWO made it possible to hire a postdoc and five study midwives. It was also possible to receive statistical support (UHasselt) and a collaborator of Applied Economic Sciences (UHasselt). In cooperation with the steering committee and all of the previous mentioned persons, the design of the study was made and they can perform the data collection, data analysis and the interpretation of the data.Lanssens, D (corresponding author), Ziekenhuis Oost Limburg, Limburg Clin Res Ctr, Future Hlth Dept, Mobile Hlth Unit, Genk, Belgium.
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Crónica de Fabulandia: El Caballo y la Hormiga.
No full textApparently, the horse saves the grasshopper, who has been knocked out in a terrible storm. I do not think there is anything Aesopic here. An example of what the root fabu- has meant to people around the world.Language note: SpanishThijs Chanowsk
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