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How does sustainable finance aid the accomplishment of the sustainable development goals?: a study about the role of effective messaging at UNEP FI
No full textFinancial institutions have historically invested in carbon-intensive industries which pollute the planet and contribute towards climate change. Financial institutions have started to take small steps to reduce their impacts on society but they have a long way to go. This research highlights the role of initiatives and science based methodologies that can help financial institutions measure the level of impact they would experience if they don't change their investment practices
The benefits and limitations of the b corporation certification for businesses in Switzerland
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Quality Education in Senegal: Overview and Opportunities for Improvement
No full textInternational frameworks on education appeared during the 1990s, followed by the formulation of international goals for education since the 2000s. Millennium Development Goal 2 sets the goal for developing countries to achieve universal access to primary education by 2015. It was then replaced by Sustainable Development Goal 4, aiming to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education for all by 2030. These international goals and policies strongly influence the national priorities and development of education in countries such as Senegal. The case of Senegal is used to analyze the prospects for quality education in the current international and national educational frameworks. Interviews and extensive research have further allowed the investigation of context-related measures and processes for enhancing quality education. The results have shown the necessity for systemic changes in Senegalese public education as the system is disconnected from local populations and inefficient. Geographical disparities and significant inequalities also undermine it. Overall, effective measures for quality education are articulated around an increased relevance of the system, its curriculum, and means of instruction by participative and inclusive formulation processes. Measures to enhance the quality of learning, like remediation programs or curriculum reduction, have also been singled out to ameliorate the low performances of learners in the public system. Finally, teachers’ motivation must be reinforced by improved working conditions and qualifications
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
Les politiques publiques de santé environnementale en Europe: un parent pauvre du développement durable?
No full textCette thèse étudie les politiques publiques de santé environnementale mises en œuvre en Europe – plus spécifiquement en Suisse, en Allemagne et en Belgique – et se concentre sur les plans d'action environnement santé (NEHAP pour National Environmental Health Action Plan) et sur les stratégies nationales de développement de durable (SNDD) adoptés par ces pays. L'analyse, notamment basée sur un grand nombre d'entretiens menés auprès d'experts en santé environnementale, nous conduit à défendre l'idée selon laquelle les politiques publiques de santé environnementale représentent avant tout un exercice fictif, donc particulièrement limité dans ses effets, pour les Etats européens. En effet, le décalage existant entre un processus initié au niveau (régional) européen, affirmant l'importance des enjeux de santé environnementale, et des processus nationaux au sein desquels la santé environnementale conserve un statut marginal, tend à circonscrire les mesures adoptées à des programmes de recherche scientifique et de sensibilisation des populations
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