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Foley, M J, 408143
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/385643Surname: FOLEY. Given Name(s) or Initials: M J. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: 408143. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 38615.238984
Item: [2016.0049.17936] "Foley, M J, 408143
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
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
Women in the Boardroom and Corporate Decisions of Italian listed companies: Does the “critical mass” matter?
No full textPurpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between women in the board of directors, firm performance and corporate decisions as well as the risk of the firm, debt level, and research and development (R&D).
Design/methodology/approach
This study investigates a sample of 41 Italian listed companies. In particular, using a panel data of 369 firm-year observations, during the period 2005-2013, through a generalized method of moment, the relationship between women in the board of directors and corporate decisions has been investigated.
Findings
The results suggest that female representation in the board of directors affects corporate decisions. Women in the boardroom affect both financing and investment decisions. In particular, the presence of women seems to take on a complementary role to debt; it has a negative effect on risk and appears to have a positive impact on investment in R&D The results also suggest a strong relationship between female directors and firm value, especially when certain multicultural factors are considered. Finally, considering the concept of “critical mass,” in line with the arguments of Kanter (1977), the results seem to emphasize a greater influence of women with respect to corporate decisions, moving from “tokenism” to a “critical mass” scenario.
Practical implications
The outcomes of the application, besides improving the current knowledge on the relationship between female representation in the board of directors, innovation, financial, and accounting decisions, intend to reveal if the governance of Italian listed companies is efficient in determining company results and in pursuing optimal decisions. Moreover, the results could be useful for both policy makers for the regulation of corporate governance and the board of directors and as a suggestion to companies that regularly appoint the members of the board of directors.
Originality/value
The work is not limited to examining the relationship between female representation and the performance of firms but instead uses a series of indicators of corporate decisions and multicultural, such as, the nationality of women in board of directors, the educational level, the past experience, and their interaction with the variables concerning the decision-making process. To the best knowledge of authors, this is the first study that investigates the relationship between women and corporate decisions in a single civil law countr
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
Financial market determinants of the real cost of funds to public corporations in the US: 2SLS and GMM findings
No full textPurpose – The purpose of this study is to provide new empirical evidence on the impact of a variety of
financial market forces on the ex post real cost of funds to corporations, namely, the ex post real interest
rate yield on AAA-rated long-term corporate bonds in the USA. The study is couched within an
open-economy loanable funds model, and it adopts annual data for the period 1973-2013, so that the
results are current while being applicable only for the post-Bretton Woods era. The auto-regressive
two-stage least squares (2SLS) and generalized method of moments (GMM) estimations reveal that the
ex post real interest rate yield on AAA-rated long-term corporate bonds in the USA was an increasing
function of the ex post real interest rate yields on six-month Treasury bills, seven-year Treasury notes,
high-grade municipal bonds and the Moody’s BAA-rated corporate bonds, while being a decreasing
function of the monetary base as a per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) and net financial capital
inflows as a per cent of GDP. Finally, additional estimates reveal that the higher the budget deficit as a
per cent of GDP, the higher the ex post real interest rate on AAA-rated long-term corporate bonds.
Design/methodology/approach – After developing an initial open-economy loanable funds model,
the empirical dimension of the study involves auto-regressive, two-stage least squares and GMM
estimates. The model is then expanded to include the federal budget deficit, and new AR/2SLS and
GMM estimates are provided.
Findings – The AR/2SLS and GMM (generalized method of moments) estimations reveal that the ex
post real interest rate yield on AAA-rated long-term corporate bonds in the USA was an increasing
function of the ex post real interest rate yields on six-month Treasury bills, seven-year Treasury notes,
high-grade municipal bonds and the Moody’s BAA-rated corporate bonds, while being a decreasing
function of the monetary base as a per cent of GDP and net financial capital inflows as a per cent of GDP.
Finally, additional estimates reveal that the higher the budget deficit as a per cent of GDP, the higher the
ex post real interest rate on AAA-rated long -term corporate bonds.
Originality/value – The author is unaware of a study that adopts this particular set of real interest rates
along with net capital inflows and the monetary base as a per cent of GDP and net capital inflows. Also, the
data run through 2013. There have been only studies of deficits and real interest rates in the past few years
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
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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