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ABOUT OTHER KIND OF PRODUCTIVITY AND GROWTH (HOMO-SAPIENS TO HOMO-OECONOMICUS)
Get PDFPart of a larger research, this paper ranges among the matter of ideas confrontation concerning the causes of the economic crises and those keys to be passed. Paper aims at finding and praising the defining elements of our economy, in the purpose of better understanding the nowadays crisis, and at presenting certain conceptually different approaches. In this purpose, analytical presentations are focussed on the specific realities of the economic life that are in position in the last centuries, which are considered to be favouring the arriving to the critical states in the last years and to be promoting those maintaining, or which allow explaining certain effects and tendencies. The approach is made from the angle of the nature of the productivity that is had in view and highlighted in the market regulating mechanisms, and of the due growth. The paper is grounded on important analysis on the matter (including anterior researches of the author), but their dimensions does not allow their presentation in the abstract. Analysis starts from interpreting the very nowadays crisis, from different sites concerning the core (general) causes, by correlating with certain features of the industrialized consuming society. More recent references are made in the literature on the matter. Modern western economy is defined from the angle of focussing on material-quantitative productivity and growth. Analysis tries to explain certain effects concerning this kind of focus. Interesting effects and tendencies are noticed, that miss to the traditional approaches. Further on an opposed theoretic model is discussed. This is built and developed inside the service economy (on the case of two conceptually similar approaches, came from two different sources of economic thought in the field; original contributions of the author are involved). Adequately to the knowledge society, this last one is considered more favourable for homo sapiens, at least once the visible effects of the last two hundred years model are revealed, which are dominated by homo oeconomicus. This reference model being set up, a short foray is intuitively made in the perspectives of humanity on long run and on very long time, in the supposed maintain of the present economic model. In all those presentations and analyses, connections are made with other papers on the matter, in the purpose of more profound study. The conclusions concern the practical possibility of the model opposed to the industrialist economic crisis. The details highlighted from the analysis of the conceptual comparison between models and prospections bring, in the final, at proposing solutions, grounded on fundamental requirements on the line of humanityâ€(tm)s values, with didactic addressing to the young generation. The elements of contribution of the author are underlined in the presented matter.productivity, modern growth, economic crisis, knowledge society, service economy
KEY ASPECTS OF ANALYSIS ON THE IMPACT OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN HEALTH SERVICES IN THE WESTERN REGION OF ROMANIA
Get PDFThe paper aims to establish the principal correlations and positions of the tertiary sector in the Romanian economy, for realistic assessment of the actions, decisions and developments in this field. The research starts from the statistical analysis regarding the current condition and the importance of services, calculating dynamics and relevant percentages. It is also detailed the situation of health services in the western region. Its being inventoried some of the latest developments and of most impact, within them. The effects of government policies are viewed from the angle of influence on economic activity, being performed a SWOT analysis adequate to the current situation. Attention is paid both to the direct impact, in the field, and the indirect one, in the economic life ensemble and society as a whole, short and long term. The research results highlight the economic situation of Romania and the way in which economic activity is in close contact with the health system.Tertiary sector, medical services, health reform, economic development, sustainable development
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
THEORETICAL GROUNDS FOR SOME MAIN ISSUES OF THE INTEGRATED EUROPE AND OF THE KNOWLEDGE BASED ECONOMY IN THE ROMANIAN ECONOMIC THOUGHT
Get PDFPaper underlines some essential elements of the economic thought of some most important Romanian economists of the 20th century, reconsidering them in the actual European knowledge society.Methodologically, the paper resorts to the roots of the genuinemarket liberalism, productivity, ecological economy, Romanian economic thought
MAJOR MISUNDERSTANDINGS IN ECONOMIC CRISES, IN THE LIGHT OF KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY
Get PDFPresent study reviews certain main pro-active approaches and connections. Searching for root concepts, a number of current views on causes of today’s crisis are selected. They are viewed through the criterion of their effects in practice, in a heterodox approach which is a critique of standard economic routine. Connections are made with the intellectual core of the knowledge society, in the context of the required interdisciplinary character of the scientific act. Requests for the economic analysis result: the economists should judge by a broader horizon. Practical conclusions also ensue, being generally applicable to the crisis management at macroeconomic and microeconomic level.economic crises, growth, intellectual factor, knowledge society
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
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