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Management als Gegenstand der Arbeitssoziologie: Problemfelder und Forschungsperspektiven
No full textCivil society actors as drivers of socio-ecological transition?: Green spaces in European cities as laboratories of social innovation
Full text linkWWWforEurope Working Paper No. 102, 81 pages
Why are civil society dynamics concerning green spaces across European cities so interesting for socio-ecological transition? All over Europe self-organized civil society movements are emerging to tackle local challenges, becoming active players in local governance processes. These social experiments have even been intensified as a result of tight public local budgets. Their activities contribute to the functioning and well-being of a European society aiming for sustainability. Preserving the availability of bio-diverse green spaces is crucial for the socio-ecological transition of cities since besides providing recreational opportunities for city dwellers, they yield essential ecological benefits from cleaning the air to reducing noise, but also provide habitat for many species and plants and reduce local vulnerabilities to extreme climate events. In cities in which local governments have severe difficulties in affording the provision of green space, new self-organized initiatives have emerged for maintaining and even developing them. Initiatives such as urban gardening have proven that people are able to cooperate, to organize themselves and to take over responsibility for green spaces as well as even introducing new practices that support the socio-ecological transition. This Milestone will contribute to the questions: -how can citizen groups contribute to maintain existing green spaces which are available and accessible for all and possibly being expanded whilst assuring biodiversity and allowing diverse use for local needs (re-creation, community-based food-production, neighbourhood culture, common intergenerational and intercultural learning etc.) at the same time; -which policy framework allows for a constructive colaboration between local authorities, administration, economic actors and citizens, enabling innovative solutions in the area of urban food production, green-space management and participative urban development
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
Grenzarbeit und Selbst-Werden. Vereinbarkeit biografischer Projekte zwischen Emanzipation und Inwertsetzung
Full text linkIn der spätmodernen Gesellschaft wird die Ambivalenz pluraler Lebensläufe zu einer individuellen Herausforderung. Anrufungen zur Individualität und zur Bewältigung der prinzipiellen Offenheit eigener Biografien müssen selbstverantwortlich in die Hand genommen werden. In der Praxis bedeutet dies Grenzen-Ziehen. Werden die praxeologischen Implikationen dieser Demarkation untersucht, lassen sich strukturierende sowie Handlungsmomente als aktive Vermittlungen der Vereinbarkeit deuten. Im Sinne Michel Serres ist diese Grenzarbeit als »Kampf gegen das Rauschen« zu verstehen. Ihre Leistung liegt in der Organisation der Ambivalenzen scheinbar ›sauberer‹ Trennungen. Projekte können als Sinnbild dieser Aushandlung herangezogen werden. Ein Projekt ist, neben einer spezifischen Organisationsform zur Komplexitätsbewältigung, eine Rhetorik, mit welcher die fragmentierte Biografie in ein identitätsstiftendes Narrativ gebracht werden kann. Der Mensch, in die Welt geworfen, entwirft sich. Projekte materialisieren sich in der individuellen Biografie, der eigenen Identität und in den sozialen Beziehungen. Die Form des Projekts kann als Vereinbarkeitstechnologie interpretiert werden, welche spezifische Rationalitäten, Rechtfertigungen, Methoden und Werkzeuge der Planung und Organisation an die Hand gibt. Diese betten sich in wachsende Ansprüche an Selbstökonomisierung ein und erzeugen eine Subjektivitätsform, welche in der Praxis ein eigenes Leben entwirft
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