1,720,967 research outputs found
Binnenstedelijke herontwikkeling : Een blik op de rolverdeling tussen overheid en private ontwikkelaars bij Plein 1944
No full textDeze thesis zal gaan over het onderwerp ‘binnenstedelijke herontwikkeling’. Dit is een
actueel thema, in elke Nederlandse stad is er wel een project bezig waarbij er een nieuwe
invulling wordt gegeven aan een locatie. Binnenstedelijke herontwikkeling zal een steeds
belangrijkere rol gaan spelen in de ontwikkeling van het stedelijk gebied in Nederland.
Een eerste reden voor de opkomst van binnenstedelijke herontwikkeling is het mislukken
van zogenaamde buiten stedelijke ontwikkeling. Een tweede reden hiervoor is het beleid
van de rijksoverheid. Vanuit Den Haag probeert men om stedelijke uitbreidingen zoveel
mogelijk te voorkomen. Hierdoor wordt het herontwikkelen van plekken binnen het
stedelijk gebied aantrekkelijk. Ten derde zorgt binnenstedelijke herontwikkeling voor het
vitaal houden van de binnensteden. Door te kiezen voor het bouwen in bestaand stedelijk
gebied zullen deze centra een impuls krijgen. Er zijn echter verschillende manieren
waarop deze herontwikkelingen uitgevoerd kunnen worden. De overheid, meestal een
gemeente, kan verschillende rollen aannemen. In dit onderzoek zal een analyse worden
gemaakt van de rolverdeling tussen overheden en private ontwikkelaars. Er zal een
antwoord gezocht worden op de vraag op welke manier de rollen tussen overheid en
private ontwikkelaars verdeeld worden bij binnenstedelijke herontwikkeling in Nederland
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
The nature of negative contact: Studies on interethnic relations in western societies
No full textThere has been somewhat of a mismatch between, on the one hand, the implicit concern in much of the public and political discussions that ethnic diversity breeds discord and conflict, and, on the other hand, the rather lopsided focus in social scientific research on positive interethnic experiences. At its core, this dissertation is an attempt to remedy this incongruity by focussing on negative experiences, in particular between people from different ethnic or racial backgrounds. Throughout this dissertation, different forms of negative experiences are studied, including criminal offences, harsh feedback, nuisances between neighbours, and aggression amongst high school pupils. By using state-of-the-art statistical methods, Kros analyses largescale surveys, network data, hate crime statistics, and laboratory experiments to gain insights about the nature of negative contact. Kros shows that while negative interethnic contact is far less common than positive contact, it does increase levels of prejudice and undermine trust and social cohesion. However, negative interethnic contact is not more likely to occur in neighbourhoods or municipalities that are more ethnically diverse. A higher percentage of ethnic outgroup neighbours is not related to more hate crimes nor to more mundane negative experiences. Similarly, high school pupils are not more likely to behave negatively towards their classmates, for instance by bullying them, if they have a different ethnic background. Instead aggression is met with aggression, and negative behaviour can be a very effective way to distance oneself from lower-status peers or to gain a higher position in the social hierarchy
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
Fostering a Global Identity: Climate Change, Environmental Degradation and the Emergence of a Hypothetical Other
No full textIn this essay we argue that there are certain processes at work in the world, which could theoretically contribute to the fostering of a global identity. Even though a global identity is regarded by many social scientists as unviable, if not impossible, because an “Us” is always in need of a “Them”, we aim to transcend these conceptions. The central theory is that as humanity’s sense of interconnectedness grows and the need for a global collaboration becomes necessary in order to deal effectively with climate change and environmental degradation,a process could be set in motion whereby, as we move towards a collaborative “Us” (the unified social body), a hypothetical or historical “Them” is constructed (the divided social body). The purpose of this speculative paper is primarily to challenge prevailing, perhaps pessimistic, convictions that the construction of a global identity is impossible, even though in light of the nature of current pressing issues it is highly necessary
- …
