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Supplemental material for Government coalitions and Eurosceptic voting in the 2014 European Parliament elections
No full textSupplemental Material for Government coalitions and Eurosceptic voting in the 2014 European Parliament elections by Stefano Camatarri Centre de Science Politique et de Politique Comparée (CESPOL), Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain, Belgium Francesco Zucchini Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy in European Union Politics</p
Horses and hippos : Why Italian government bills change in the legislative arena, 1987-2006
No full textScholars interested in legislative processes pay relatively little attention to the
changes made to bills in parliamentary democracies.On the one hand, comparative research
has often described parliamentary institutions as ineffectual vis-à-vis cabinets throughout
the lawmaking process; on the other hand, for a long time the rational choice literature has
focused more on the formal rules regulating amendatory activity than on amendatory
activity itself. Hence, very few studies have tried to explain how much government bills are
altered in parliament and why. This article investigates the changes made to governmental
legislation in Italy. Taking the modifications occurring during the legislative process as the
dependent variable, a number of explanatory hypotheses derived from both existing scholarship
and original arguments are discussed and tested.This also allows the identification of
some usually unobserved aspects of the decision-making process within the cabinet. The
findings can also be relevant for comparative research since Italy has been characterised
during the period under scrutiny (1987–2006) by two distinct electoral systems, two
extremely different party systems (pivotal and alternational), governments with various
ideological orientations and range, and both partisan and technical ministers.parliament
and why.
In this paper, we investigate the changes made to governmental legislation in Italy. Taking the
modifications occurring during the legislative process as the dependent variable, we discuss
and test a number of explanatory hypotheses derived from both existing scholarship and
original arguments. By doing so, we also try to indirectly find out some aspects of the often
unobservable decision-making process within the cabinet.
Our findings are also relevant for comparative research. During the period that we have
investigated (1987–2006), Italy has been characterized by two distinct electoral systems, two
extremely different party systems, governments with various ideological orientation and
range, both partisan and technical ministers
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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