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Leali, incerti o defezionisti? : atteggiamenti di voto post primarie nei selettori fra il2007 e il 2013
No full textTaking into account the theoretical debate and the empirical evidences in North american literature on primary elections, this article analyzes the strategic behavior of the selectors in terms of loyalty and defection, which means supporting the winner of the primaries to the next political election, instead of choosing a different candidate, party or coalition to vote. By comparing the primaries which were celebrated at national level in Italy between 2007 to 2013 (premier candidate and party leader selections), we find out two important trends: the growth of the post-primary defection over time and an higher influence of the candidate image (valence), which makes Italian primaries very similar to the American so-called deviating elections. The growth of the competition among candidates, together with the contendibility of the nomination, suggest as primary elections will increasingly become a useful tool for division rather than for union of the political parties, mainly in a context characterized by high inter and intra party fragmentation, like the Italian political system
Fra Unione europea e politica italiana
No full textAlberto Martinelli ha scritto di Europa e di Italia, ma non si è mai esplicitamente occupato del loro rapporto, né come studioso, né come intellettuale spinto dal suo senso di impegno civico. In questo capitolo provo tuttavia a ricercare nel suo profilo scientifico quali potrebbero essere le sue risposte di fronte ad alcuni dei quesiti che più tipicamente si pongono chi normalmente fa ricerca in questi specifico ambito. Prima guardo al ruolo avuto dall’Europa nella modernizzazione italiana, e più specificatamente al dibattito sugli eventuali benefici che il nostro paese ha avuto dall’Unione monetaria, e poi alla capacità del nostro paese di contribuire attivamente ed efficacemente alla politica e alle politiche europee
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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