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Sustainability indicators - a tool for regional co-operation
Get PDFSustainability indicators are more than just numbers. Besides their main function of illustrating the complex vision of sustainability they could support some factors for success of regional co-operation through their development. Today the discussion on indicators and co-operation is mainly separated from each other. Sustainability indicators are developed on all spatial levels from neighbourhoods up to the United Nations. In some cases the indicators are developed but remain unused. Regional co-operations on sustainability are more or less successful. Some fail because of the complexity of the topic and the multitude of people involved in sustainability. Despite the existing problems the necessity of both topics for the implementation of sustainable development is out of question. Some of the problems mentioned could be solved by the linkage of the two topics: indicators are not developed as an end in itself and regional co-operation could become more successful. The improvement of both is possible because important factors for success of co-operation can be supported by the following abilities resulting from the development of indicators: a) consensus building, b) improvement of the quality of basic information, c) definition of quantified aims and priorities, d) comprehensive development of measures, e) recognition of need for action f) evaluation of success. Besides these effects among the co-operating actors indicators development supports the following factors according to the external of the co-operation: g) information on the work of the co-operation (setting up transparency), h) contribution to a new sustainable awareness. Additionally the indicators are enhanced because the people developing and using them have intellectual ownership of them and guarantee that they are more than numbers. Regional co-operation and sustainability indicators become one unit and could be seen as a sustainable regional management system.
Sustainability indicators - a tool for regional co-operation
Get PDFSustainability indicators are more than just numbers. Besides their main function of illustrating the complex vision of sustainability they could support some factors for success of regional co-operation through their development. Today the discussion on indicators and co-operation is mainly separated from each other. Sustainability indicators are developed on all spatial levels from neighbourhoods up to the United Nations. In some cases the indicators are developed but remain unused. Regional co-operations on sustainability are more or less successful. Some fail because of the complexity of the topic and the multitude of people involved in sustainability. Despite the existing problems the necessity of both topics for the implementation of sustainable development is out of question. Some of the problems mentioned could be solved by the linkage of the two topics: indicators are not developed as an end in itself and regional co-operation could become more successful. The improvement of both is possible because important factors for success of co-operation can be supported by the following abilities resulting from the development of indicators: a) consensus building, b) improvement of the quality of basic information, c) definition of quantified aims and priorities, d) comprehensive development of measures, e) recognition of need for action f) evaluation of success. Besides these effects among the co-operating actors indicators development supports the following factors according to the external of the co-operation: g) information on the work of the co-operation (setting up transparency), h) contribution to a new sustainable awareness. Additionally the indicators are enhanced because the people developing and using them have intellectual ownership of them and guarantee that they are more than numbers. Regional co-operation and sustainability indicators become one unit and could be seen as a sustainable regional management system
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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