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Portfolio saliency and ministerial turnover: Dynamics in Scandinavian postwar cabinets
No full text© 2013 The Author(s) Scandinavian Political Studies © 2013 Nordic Political Science Association. This is the accepted version of the following article: Hansen, M. E., Klemmensen, R., Hobolt, S. B. and Bäck, H. (2013), Portfolio Saliency and Ministerial Turnover: Dynamics in Scandinavian Postwar Cabinets. Scandinavian Political Studies, 36: 227–248, which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9477.12004/abstract.Why do certain ministers remain in their post for years while others have their time in office cut short? Drawing on the broader literature on portfolio allocation, this article argues that the saliency of individual portfolios shapes ministerial turnover. The main argument is that ministerial dismissals are less likely to occur the higher the saliency attributed to the ministerial portfolio since ministers appointed to important posts are more likely to have been through extensive screening before appointment. Importantly, it is also posited in the article that the effect of portfolio salience is conditioned by government approval ratings: when government ratings are on the decline, prime ministers are less likely to reshuffle or fire important ministers than when approval ratings are improving. To test these claims, Cox proportional hazards models are applied to a new dataset on ministerial turnover in Scandinavia during the postwar period. The results strongly support the proposition that portfolio saliency matters for ministerial survival, and that this effect is moderated by government popularity
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe 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
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
Integrating the participants' perspective in the study of language and communication disorders
No full textIn an integrational perspective, meaning is considered experiential: “signs are not given to us by Nature” (Harris 2009, p. 87) - they require a process of continuous creation, performed by the language makers. Experience, knowledge and meaning are closely tied together. This stated, signs articulate the complexity of our own situation and “their creation is itself the creation of knowledge, and, more importantly, the creation of untold possibilities for its further expansion” (Harris 2009, p. 87). This questions the observation of other humans’ language: Who are the experts? This methodological problem is discussed in a new approach to the study of language and communication disorders (Klemmensen 2018). My ph.d.-research investigates the pros and cons of an interdisciplinary practice approach incorporating three different schools, which claim to study the persons communicating, their actions, and their agency are the point of departure. Concepts from Integrational Linguistics are discussed in a joint framework and aligned with Practice theory and methods from Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis, resulting in the introduction of a new applied integrationism.By revisiting the key theoretical concepts: contextualization and integrational proficiency, and inserting these in a practice research-framing, the emergence of an applied integratism is conveyed and applied to the study of language and communication disorders - minus The Language Myth. With an emphasis on key theoretical and meta-theoretical questions involved in the above research project on language and communication disorders, this presentation, overall, aims at discussing the project’s theoretical approach, pointing towards a new analytical approach based on concepts from integrationism. Harris, R. (2009). After epistemology. Gamlingay: Bright Pen.Klemmensen, C. (2018). Integrating the participants’ perspective in the study of language and communication disorders: Towards a new analytical approach. Cham: Palgrave Pivot.In an integrational perspective, meaning is considered experiential: “signs are not given to us by Nature” (Harris 2009, p. 87) - they require a process of continuous creation, performed by the language makers. Experience, knowledge, and meaning are closely tied together. This stated, signs articulate the complexity of our own situation and “their creation is itself the creation of knowledge, and, more importantly, the creation of untold possibilities for its further expansion” (Harris 2009, p. 87). This questions the observation of other humans’ language: Who are the experts? This methodological problem is discussed in a new approach to the study of language and communication disorders (Klemmensen 2018). My ph.d.-research investigates the pros and cons of an interdisciplinary practice approach incorporating three different schools, which claim to study the persons communicating, their actions, and their agency are the point of departure. Concepts from Integrational Linguistics are discussed in a joint framework and aligned with Practice theory and methods from Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis, resulting in the introduction of a new applied integrationism.By revisiting the key theoretical concepts: contextualization and integrational proficiency, and inserting these in a practice research-framing, the emergence of an applied integrationism is conveyed and applied to the study of language and communication disorders - minus The Language Myth. With an emphasis on key theoretical and meta-theoretical questions involved in the above research project on language and communication disorders, this presentation, overall, aims at discussing the project’s theoretical approach, pointing towards a new analytical approach based on concepts from integrationism. Harris, R. (2009). After epistemology. Gamlingay: Bright Pen.Klemmensen, C. (2018). Integrating the participants’ perspective in the study of language and communication disorders: Towards a new analytical approach. Cham: Palgrave Pivot.<br/
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Letter from R. R. Zellick, Assistant Trust Officer, Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco, to Joseph R. Goodman, October 2, 1942
No full textLetter from R. R. Zellick, Assistant Trust Officer at The Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco, to Joseph R. Goodman, regarding property owned by Dave Tatsuno. Zellick mentions a dispute between current tenants and Tatsuno, and that Tatsuno has asked Goodman to help locate trustworthy tenants.Personal correspondence, organizational records, government documents, publications, and other papers created or collected by Joseph R. Goodman documenting the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, as well as organized resistance to incarceration. Included in the collection are records of the Japanese Young Men's Christian Association and the Japanese American Citizens' League in San Francisco, including papers of the Japanese YMCA's executive secretary Lincoln Kanai; Sakai family papers; Goodman's correspondence to and from Japanese American incarcerees, organizations opposing forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, the War Relocation Authority, and others; publications, photographs, and ephemera from the Topaz Relocation Center, where Goodman taught high school; War Relocation Authority records and publications; and newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and reports about forced removal and incarceration created by various government, religious, and civic organizations, in California and nationwide
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
Liftings for noncomplete probability spaces
No full textThe current state of knowledge concerning liftings for noncomplete probability spaces is discussed. This is a somewhat expanded version of the author's talk given at the 1991 Summer Conference on General Topology and Applications in Honor of Mary Ellen Rudin and Her Work.PT: S; CR: BURKE MR, IN PRESS P AM MATH S BURKE MR, 1991, ISRAEL J MATH, V73, P33 BURKE MR, 1992, ISRAEL J MATH, V79, P289 CARLSON T, THEOREM LIFTING CHRISTENSEN JPR, 1974, TOPOLOGY BOREL STRUC FREMLIN DH, 1989, HDB BOOLEAN ALGEBRAS, P877 INOESCUTULCEA A, 1966, 5TH P BERK S MATH ST, V2 IONESCUTULCEA A, 1967, CONTRIBUTIONS PROB 1, P63 IONESCUTULCEA A, 1969, TOPICS THEORY LIFTIN JECH TJ, 1978, SET THEORY JOHNSON RA, 1980, P AM MATH SOC, V80, P234 JUST W, IN PRESS T AM MATH S KUPKA J, 1983, INDIANA U MATH J, V32, P717 LOSERT V, 1983, LNM, V1080, P95 MAHARAM D, 1958, P AM MATH SOC, V9, P987 SHELAH S, 1983, ISRAEL J MATH, V45, P90 TALAGRAND M, 1982, P AM MATH SOC, V84, P379 VONNEUMANN J, 1931, CRELLES J MATH, V165, P109; NR: 18; TC: 0; J9: ANN N Y ACAD SCI; PG: 4; GA: BZ86BSource type: Electronic(1
Hansen, Lee (Lee R.). Union, non-union, and managerial pay plan state employees, 2008-2019
No full text1 online resource (2 pages)"July 1, 2021."Provides the number of union and non-union state employees in each of the last 14 years. Also provides the number of state employees paid under the state's managerial pay plan during each of those years. Updates OLR research report 2019-R-011
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