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Non è un Paese per investimenti sociali? Una reinterpretazione della traiettoria di riforma del welfare e della politics del social investment in Italia = No country for social investment? Reinterpreting the welfare reform trajectory and the politics of social investment in Italy
No full textQuesto articolo inquadra le principali riforme del welfare italiano dagli anni ‘90 ad oggi nella prospettiva del SI, e propone un’interpretazione dei fattori di politics che hanno determinato la traiettoria sui generis dell’Italia rispetto alla mancata (o parziale) svolta verso l’investimento sociale. A seguito della Grande recessione, l’Italia ha affiancato alla flessibilizzazione del mercato del lavoro un’espansione in senso universale dei buffer, estendendo la copertura dei sussidi di disoccupazione, introducendo uno schema nazionale di reddito minimo garantito (fortemente ridimensionato dal governo Meloni) e un assegno unico universale per le famiglie con figli. Non sono invece stati fatti passi avanti significativi rispetto al potenziamento dei servizi per migliorare i flussi nel mercato del lavoro e nel ciclo di vita, specie nell’ambito della cura e della conciliazione lavoro-famiglia, e lo stock di capitale umano (istruzione e formazione continua). Oltre alle specificità del contesto economico ed istituzionale, lo sviluppo degli investimenti pubblici in capitale umano e servizi sociali è stato ostacolato da dinamiche che, in ambiti fortemente politicizzati, hanno favorito policy orientate al ‘consumo’ piuttosto che all’investimento, mentre in ambiti meno controversi la spinta verso il SI da parte degli interessi organizzati si è tradotta in piccoli avanzamenti incrementali.This article re-examines the main welfare reforms in Italy from the 1990s to the present through the lens of social investment (SI), and proposes an interpretation of the political factors that have shaped Italy’s sui generis trajectory, characterized by a lack of (or partial) shift towards SI. Following the Great Recession, Italy combined labour market
flexibilization with an expansion of income protection buffers, including the extension of unemployment benefit coverage, the introduction of a national minimum income scheme (significantly curtailed by the Meloni government) and of a universal child allowance for families. However, no significant progress has been made in enhancing services aimed
at improving labour market and life-course flows (particularly in the areas of care and work-family reconciliation) and human capital stock development (education and lifelong learning). Beyond the specificities of the economic and institutional context, in highly politicized policy areas, the development of public investment in human capital and social
services has been hindered by political dynamics that have prioritized consumption-oriented policies over investment. Conversely, in less contentious policy areas, pressure toward SI from organized interests has resulted in small incremental advancements
Fallout plutonium cycle in a terrestrial environment: North Italy.
No full textCommission of the European Communities, ECSC-ECC-EAEC, Bruxells-Luxembour
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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