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The Master of Disaster Management for Sri Lanka.
No full textThe program of university cooperation between Italy and Sri Lanka was developed within the
framework of the project “Global Partnership for Skill Development Using University Networks”
of the International Labor Organization of the United Nations. This program, part of a broader
array of humanitarian initiatives of the Italian government in support of the people of Sri Lanka
hit by the Indian Ocean Tsunami of December 26
th
2004, was composed of a school of
specialization for Sri Lankan public officers with responsibility in civil protection and a Joint
Master of Disaster Management for Sri Lankan students who had already completed their
undergraduate curriculum. Strengthening university cooperation between Italy and Sri Lanka
could boost research and teaching opportunities in both countries on subjects related to
emergency management better to prepare for future calamities, thus preventing losses of lives and
infrastructures.
The school of specialization for Sri Lankan officers with responsibility in civil protection was
held in Perugia in the months of January and February 2007, precisely at the WARREDOC
Center of the University for Foreigners of Perugia, conversely the Joint Master of Disaster
Management was held part in Kandy, Sri Lanka, at the University of Peradeniya, and part in
Ancona, Italy, at the Università Politecnica delle Marche . To obtain the Master degree, students
had to attend course work over a period of two semesters of 15 weeks each. The entire program
was about 15 to 18 months duration inclusive of 3 to 6 months for the research. This report
describes the didactic activities attended by 30 Sri Lankan students during the 2
nd
semester at the
Università Politecnica delle Marche from February 8
th
to May 12
th
. (http://www.pgis.lk/Newsimages/italy.html
Educational assortative mating in Italy: what can Gini’s homogamy index still say?
Full text linkThe homogamy index proposed by Gini is applied to describe the changes occurred in marital choice - across time and regions in Italy. The relevant increase in education by women has provoked an increase in the number of homogamous couples and in an increasing proportion of women who marry downward. Relevant differences are observed in the case of informal unions and mixed marriages
Dinamica Evolutiva della Costiera del Conero: un progetto pilota per interventi su coste di elevato pregio
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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
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
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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