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Corporate governance and independent directors: much ado about nothing? The evidence behind private equity investment performance
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La valutazione dei brevetti per il finanziamento dell'innovazione : stato dell'arte e problemi aperti
No full textIl lavoro illustra la piattaforma di valutazione dei brevetti elaborata nel 2008 su iniziativa dell’Ufficio Italiano Brevetti e Marchi, ai fini dell’accesso delle pmi al Fondo per l’Innovazione. La piattaforma si propone come uno strumento di supporto per gli intermediari finanziari convenzionati con il Fondo, ai quali è affidata la selezione dei progetti inventivi finanziabili.
La valutazione dei brevetti riveste una particolare rilevanza al fine di reperire fonti di finanziamento, che potrebbero essere l’unica possibilità di portare l’innovazione sul mercato.
Dopo aver illustrato i parametri di valutazione contenuti nella piattaforma, avanziamo alcune considerazioni sulla concreta applicabilità da parte delle banche italiane e in particolare, sulla possibilità di considerare il brevetto come collaterale di linee di fido o, più in generale, come asset in grado di creare profitto per l’azienda e di agire come leva per l’accesso al credit
Corporate governance and independent directors: much ado about nothing? The evidence behind private equity investment performance
No full textRecourse to independent directors by private equity investors per se is not tied to
performance increases. We draw this conclusion from analyzing a unique data set
representative of the Italian context: all deals realized by Italian closed-end funds from
1999 to 2003. Our study shows that independent directors impact the rate of return only
on deals which require very specific skills, i.e. turnaround and buyout investments.
Besides, busy independent directors do not seem to affect negatively the internal rate of
return. Finally, independent directors tend to resign when performance is unsatisfactory
and consent to shave losses when performances are negative
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
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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