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Il microcredito sociale per le donne egiziana
No full textIl volume guarda all’impatto socioeconomico dei programmi di microfinanza attivi nei paesi del Mediterraneo, prendendo spunto dai risultati di una ricerca svolta da Fondazione Risorsa Donna nell’Anno Internazionale per il Microcredito (2005). Ogni capitolo dirige l’attenzione del lettore verso diverse aree geografiche: i paesi europei, i paesi arabi del Nord–Africa (con una particolare attenzione all’Egitto) e i paesi dei Balcani. L’analisi adotta un’ottica di genere, identificando, dove possibile, i cambiamenti occorsi nelle esistenze delle donne — e delle loro famiglie — a partire dal momento in cui hanno potuto accedere a un programma di microcredito. Particolare attenzione viene rivolta alle problematiche relative al legame tra microcredito ed empowerment femminile, sia guardando ai diversi paradigmi presenti in letteratura, sia tramite la creazione di un indice di cambiamento delle condizioni di vita delle donne beneficiarie.Marcella Corsi è professore ordinario di Economia politica presso la Facoltà di Scienze Statistiche della “Sapienza” Università di Roma ed è parte del Comitato Scientifico di Fondazione Risorsa Donna. è autrice di numerosi saggi su temi che spaziano dall’economia del lavoro alle tematiche dello sviluppo umano (spesso in un’ottica di genere).Contributi di Paola Barbieri, Fabrizio Botti, Marcella Corsi, Andrea Nardone, Tommaso Rondinella, Chiara Segrado, Anna Villa, Giulia Zacchia
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
Paolo Sylos Labini: Reflections of a Classical Economist
Full text linkThe article provides a review of Sylos Labini’s memories, collected here on occasion of the tenth anniversary of his passing away. The author reports on the proceedings of two conferences in memory of Sylos Labini held in Rome, on 18 November 2015 at the Lincean Academy and on 4 December 2015 at Sapienza University. Sylos Labini stipulated that the goal of economic development is not just to satisfy human needs, but to cater civil development itself, in accordance with Adam Smith’s fundamental lesson. In his view, economic development and civil development interact in a circular manner in the long run. Considering the developmental issues of Italy’s Mezzogiorno, Sylos Labini highlights that the nature of the problem is not only economic, but rather many issues arise from unreasonable links between politics, economy, and society. Accordingly, he provided policy suggestions that are not limited to the economic and industrial fields (such as water supply projects, irrigation infrastructures, and investments for the creation of modern industries), but he also identified three priority areas of social policy: measures to contrast the mafias, crime in public procurement, and corruption; a reform of the public administration; and investments in education, universities, and research
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
Pioniere. Almerina Ipsevich e la congiuntura
Full text linkFu Almerina Ipsevich a dare slancio e rilievo all'analisi congiunturale in Italia, ossia all'analisi del combinarsi in ogni momento di fenomeni socio-economici e conseguenti fluttuazioni del sistema economic
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