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Des migrants de retour aux élites locales : un détour réflexif avant d\u27entamer un second terrain ethnographique à la Martinique
No full textLe thème du retour des migrants au pays natal est au coeur de la communication. A travers une approche ethnographique, Aude Lanthier identifie et analyse les obstacles que rencontrent les migrants martiniquais à l\u27heure de réintégrer leur terre d\u27origine, notamment en matière de bouleversement des rapports familiaux engendrés par ses migrations avec l\u27éclatement des familles sur plusieurs territoire
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
Adapting to a Bearish Nuclear Market : The Transition of Framatome in the 1980s
No full textThe 1980s were comparably lean years for the nuclear power industry. This was not just out of general economic trends; rather, a number of medium-tolong-term endogenous dynamics were putting constraint upon an international industry still articulated in national champions. The cumulative effect of such dynamics was a growing gap between the distribution of production capacity and potential domestic demand. If for a while export markets appeared as a possible solution, they did not stand up to earlier, inflated expectations. Drawing on unpublished documents of the Framatome Board, it is possible to understand how the French company tackled the problem of a bearish nuclear market. After having started a process of inner differentiation since 1983, by July 1986 Framatome adopted new strategic guidelines aimed at transforming it into a ‘multipolar’ group. On the one hand, the nuclear sector was scaled down, with a sizeable cut in heavy boiler-making capacity, a refocusing on product and services, and a policy of alliances aimed at developing an European standard nuclear island (i.e. the joint venture with Siemens) and penetrating into the U.S. market (i.e. agreements with Babcock & Wilcox). On the other hand, the realm of electronics was deemed as a most promising area for diversification as its high-tech content suited well a firm overstaffed with engineers and technicians accustomed to deal with their end-product in terms of safe reliability. With the creation in 1989 of Framatome Connectors International as a holding company for Burndy, Souriau and Jupiter, the French group became one of the five biggest enterprises of the sector; the ‘pole connectique’ was expected to produce one-half of consolidated revenues by 1993. Framatome reacted timely in front of a depressing nuclear market trend by progressively formulating a strategy which was basically aimed at using the sizeable profits obtained through the French nuclear power programme in order to preserve the company’s capacity and expertise for better times. This process intertwined with and was complicated by the struggle to defend Framatome independence as an industrial subject in respect of its own shareholders, with first the crisis of Creusot-Loire and then the clash with CGE. The strategy would have been basically sound if it had not revolved around the forecast of a upturn of the nuclear market in the mid term; such a nuclear renaissance, however, hardly materialised. Moreover, the choice in favour of connectors for diversifying the company’s area of activities was unexpectedly problematic, while the well-known difficulties of the EPR reactor and the ultimate exit of Siemens from the nuclear industry cast a further shadow on Framatome’s strategy. The latter’s basic – and probably unforeseeable – flaw, however, consisted in confiding in a possible restart of nuclear power in the Western industrialised countries after Chernobyl.Les années 1980 furent une période de vaches maigres pour l’industrie de l’énergie nucléaire. La raison ne fut pas fondée seulement sur les tendances économiques générales ; plutôt, un certain nombre de dynamiques endogènes, à moyen et long terme, mirent des contraintes sur une industrie internationale toujours articulée en champions nationaux. L’effet cumulatif de ces dynamiques fut un écart croissant entre la répartition de la capacité de production et la demande intérieure potentielle. Bien que les marchés d’exportation apparussent pendant un moment comme une solution possible, ils ne furent pas finalement au niveau des prévisions antérieures, excessives. En utilisant des documents inédits du conseil d’administration de Framatome, il est possible de comprendre comment cette entreprise française aborda le problème d’un marché nucléaire baissier. Après avoir commencé un processus de différenciation interne depuis 1983, en juillet 1986 Framatome adopta de nouvelles orientations stratégiques visant à la transformer en un groupe « multipolaire ». D’une part, le secteur nucléaire fut revu à la baisse, avec une coupe importante de la capacité de chaudronnerie lourde, un recentrage sur les produits et services et une politique d’alliances visant soit à l’élaboration d’un îlot nucléaire standardisé européen (à savoir la joint-venture avec Siemens), soit à pénétrer le marché américain (accords avec Babcock & Wilcox). D’autre part, le domaine de l’électronique fut considéré comme le secteur le plus prometteur pour la diversification, en raison de son contenu high-tech qui s’adaptait bien à une société en sureffectif en matière d’ingénieurs et de techniciens habitués à traiter avec leur produit final en termes de fiabilité et de sécurité. Avec la création en 1989 de Framatome Connectors International en tant que holding pour Burndy, Souriau et Jupiter, le groupe français devint l’une des cinq plus grandes entreprises du secteur ; on s'attendait à ce que le « pôle connectique » fournisse la moitié du bénéfice consolidé de la société en 1993. Framatome réagit sans délai face à la tendance à la baisse du marché nucléaire en formulant progressivement une stratégie qui visait essentiellement à utiliser les bénéfices importants obtenus par le programme électronucléaire français afin de préserver la capacité et l’expertise de la société pour des temps meilleurs. Ce processus s’entrecroisa avec et fut compliqué par la lutte pour défendre l’indépendance de Framatome en tant qu’acteur industriel à l’égard de ses propres actionnaires, d’abord avec la crise de Creusot-Loire et puis avec l’affrontement avec la CGE. La stratégie aurait été fondamentalement solide si elle n’avait pas tenu à la prévision d’une reprise du marché nucléaire à moyen terme ; une telle renaissance du nucléaire, cependant, ne se matérialisa guère. En outre, le choix en faveur de connecteurs pour la diversification de la société fut problématique de façon inattendue, tandis que les difficultés bien connues du réacteur EPR et la sortie ultime de Siemens de l’industrie nucléaire jetèrent une nouvelle ombre sur la stratégie de Framatome. Néanmoins, le défaut fondamental, et peut-être imprévisible, de sa stratégie tenait à la confiance en un redémarrage possible de l’énergie nucléaire dans les pays industrialisés occidentaux après Tchernobyl
Square Dancing with the Stars to Enhance Dynamic Hirschman Linkages?
No full textIn this Presidential Address, the author takes the reader on a reconnaissance of his life and time as a regional scientist. He points out scenery he found scintillating along the way, hoping that some may pick up the banner and chew on a few of the ideas for a while. He suggests a revisit to Albert O. Hirschman’s notion of key sectors and more empirical analysis related to Marcus Berliant’s and Masahisa Fujita’s notion of knowledge creation and transfer.Presidential Address, San Antonio, Texas, March 29, 2014 (53rd Meetings of the Southern Regional Science Association
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
Letter from unknown writer to Jesse L. Boyce
No full textLetter to Jesse L. Boyce from unknown author (possibly Jack) about the investigation into the powder magazine located in the Grand Canyon. Some personal news is included in the letter such as the writer's marriage to the daughter of C.A. Taylor, former Supervisor of Cochise County
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
Sarah L. Blum Author Visit - Warrior Nurse: PTSD and Healing
No full textHear Sarah L. Blum, author of Women Under Fire: Abuse in the Military, discuss her newest book, Warrior Nurse: PTSD and Healing followed by a Q&A and book signing.
Sarah L. Blum is a decorated Vietnam veteran who served as an operating room nurse during the intense fighting of 1967. In recognition of her service, she was awarded the Army Commendation Medal.
Sponsored by CWU Veterans Center and CWU Libraries.https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/libraryevents/1252/thumbnail.jp
Lillian L. Lambert, Author, Speaker, and Entrepreneur
No full textLillian L. Lambert, Author, Speaker, and Entrepreneu
Letter to Alfred L. Shoemaker, February 10, 1948
No full textA handwritten letter from an unknown author addressed to Alfred L. Shoemaker, dated February 10, 1948. Within, the author discusses the Pennsylvania Dutch word for Ash Wednesday, along with traditions associated with this day.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/shoemaker_documents/1118/thumbnail.jp
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