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Socioeconomic Evaluation of Einkorn Wheat Production
No full textToday, economic shocks, negative effects of climate change, and the crises that directly affect human health, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, have shown that food security is always important for every country, regardless of its development status. With the introduction of the concept of healthy food along with adequate food, people have begun to change the criteria they look for when they eat. The demand for wheat-related products, which constitute the raw material of one of the most basic nutrients for human beings, has changed within this structure. It can be said that einkorn, emmer, and spelt wheats, which are known as the ancestors of wheat, come to the fore more today, especially when the demand for the products produced from wheat landraces is getting to increase. The fact that the products obtained from these wheats, which are important in terms of genetic resources, are healthier and more nutritious than the products obtained from commercial wheats is one of the main reasons for this interest. There are important initiatives in the production and commercialization of hulled wheat-based products in many countries in the world. It is seen that the products obtained from emmer and einkorn wheats are offered to the market, especially in Europe, as well as in countries such as Turkiye and the production is supported by the states, NGOs, and private sector. The products obtained from this type of wheats are finding more and more place day by day in different systems such as geographical indication and organic agriculture. For this reason, wheat landraces are of great importance as a genetic resource, and their sociological and economic aspects need to be evaluated in their conservation and sustainable use. In this study, the socioeconomic evaluation of einkorn wheat has been done and the results of a case study on Iza wheat, an einkorn wheat from Turkiye, have been presented. As a result of the study, it has been shown that economic sustainability is important in the protection and sustainability of this type of wheat, and it needs start-up support at the starting point. When these are provided, it has been revealed that the production of such wheat can become widespread both in organic agriculture and in the geographical indication system, and this type of wheat can be used as a development tool in local economic development by transforming it into value-added products. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Intrinsic Motivation for Creativity of Agricultural Holdings in Kirsehir Province of Turkey
Get PDFThe agriculture sector which has gained importance with Industry 4.0 in recent years, strives to adapt to the needs and requirements of the era by stripping from its traditional structure. In this process, it is important to increase the motivation (intrinsic and extrinsic) of human resources factor, which is the most important input of agriculture, on innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship. This paper examined the factors that affect the intrinsic motivation of the agricultural holdings managers in Kirsehir province of Turkey on their creativity for innovation, which is one of the main variables of growth. Questionnaire forms were filled with 312 agricultural holdings managers who were selected according to the Probability Sampling Method in September-October, 2019. Intrinsic motivation scores for creativity (LAIC) were obtained by using 5-point scale. Determined some socio-demographical, agricultural, economic and behavioral variables for agricultural holdings were tested with IMC levels. As a result of the study, it was determined that variables such as education, social security status, share of agricultural income, subjective poverty and risk behaviors significantly affect the IMC level of the agricultural enterprise managers. As a result, the measures to increase both the internal and external motivations of the agricultural enterprises managers are required in order to make agriculture more competitive, profitable and sustainable by removing it from the traditional structure. In this regard, not only the economic side but also the social side of agriculture should not be ignored and the potential of agriculture should be used more with structural reforms
The Factors Affecting Psychological Empowerment Levels Of Entrepreneurs In Agricultural Holdings Of Kirsehir Province, Turkey
Get PDFThe agricultural sector takes an important part of the Turkish economy yet it cannot provide the desired contribution to the national economy due to its structural problems. Particularly the field of agricultural entrepreneurship is extremely affected by the cyclical fluctuations as well as by the lack of motivation of the individuals. This is among the significant reasons why the desired changes and improvements cannot be achieved. The motivations of both the employees and the entrepreneurs should be increased and they should have sufficient knowledge and experience to increase the contribution of agriculture to the national economy. The object of this study is to examine the relations between the psychological empowerment index (PEI) indicating the motivations of the owners in the agricultural holdings operating in the province of Kirsehir where dry farming system prevails and some demographical, agricultural, perceptual and behavioral variables. As a result of the survey study conducted with the owners of 265 agricultural holdings, a positive relation was found between PEI and age, land size and income while there was a negative relation between education level, risk behavior and information sources. In conclusion, it was found in the study, which was conducted in the field of agriculture for the first time in Turkey, that the structural problems in the agricultural segment caused some results in contrary to what was theoretically expected. The reasons can be listed to include low education level in the agricultural sector, lack of trust in information sources, financial uncertainties and reluctance in taking risks
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
Dış Açılma Sürecinde Türkiye Dış Ticaretinde Belirleyici Faktörlerin Ampirik Analizi
Get PDF1980 sonrası dönem dünyadaki birçok ülkede olduğu gibi Türkiye’de de finansal serbestleşme ve dışa açılmanın ve buna bağlı olarak dış ticaret hacminde artışların yaşanmaya başladığı bir dönem olmuştur. Bu süreçte dış ticaret döviz kurları, doğrudan yabancı yatırımlar, ekonomik büyüm ve enflasyon gibi göstergeledeki değişimlere karşı daha hassas bir hale gelmiştir. Bu nedenle dış ticaretin önemli birer belirleyicisi olarak kabul edilen bu göstergeler çok sayıda ampirik analizin konusu olmuştur. Bu çalışmanın amacı 1980-2022 döneminde Türkiye dış ticaretinde belirleyici olan faktörlerin ampirik olarak analiz edilmesidir. Çalışmanın temel motivasyonu literatürde yer alan ampirik çalışmaların önemli bir kısmının aksine bu çalışmada dünyada yaratılan toplam gayrisafi yurt içi hasıla ile dünya ticaret hacminin birer değişken olarak yer almasıdır. Çalışmanın temel yöntemi ARDL (Gecikmesi Dağıtılmış Otoregresif) Sınır Testidir. Çalışmanın temel sonuçlarından biri uzun dönemde döviz kurları, enflasyon ve dünya ticaret hacminin Türkiye’nin dış ticaretinde belirleyici olduğudur. Diğer bir sonuç ise çalışma kapsamında kurulan hata düzeltme modelinin çalıştığı ve kısa dönem dengesindeki bir sapmanın yaklaşık 2,5 yıllık sürede uzun dönem dengesine yakınsadığıdır. Ayrıca çalışmada yer alan tüm değişkenlerin çeşitli gecikme uzunluklarında dış ticareti etkilediği bulgulanmıştır.Destekleyen herhangi bir kuruluş bulunmamaktadır
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