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A heuristic approach to author name disambiguation in bibliometrics databases for large-scale research assessments
No full textNational exercises for the evaluation of research activity by universities are becoming regular practice in ever more countries. These exercises have mainly been conducted through the application of peer-review methods. Bibliometrics has not been able to offer a valid large-scale alternative because of almost overwhelming difficulties in identifying the true author of each publication.We will address this problem by presenting a heuristic approach to author name disambiguation in bibliometric datasets for large-scale research assessments. The application proposed concerns the Italian university system, comprising 80 universities and a research staff of over 60,000 scientists. The key advantage of the proposed approach is the ease of implementation. The algorithms are of practical application and have considerably better scalability and expandability properties than state-of-the-art unsupervised approaches. Moreover, the performance in terms of precision and recall, which can be further improved, seems thoroughly adequate for the typical needs of large-scale bibliometric research assessments
The True Value. On Understanding Something
No full textThis contribution focuses on some issues of the evaluation disciplinethat, because of their generality, concern the practice of the value judgment. Thevalue judgment, as it coordinates evidences, inferences and decisions, deals withepistemological, logical and ethical matters; therefore it connects knowledge withresponsibility—personal and social—upon the allocation of the real rights and thetransformation of the city and the territory which depend on the result of theevaluation. The value judgment mainly connects a factual realm with a value realm.The connection between these two spheres bases on argumentations concerning: thedescription of the characteristics of the economic goods involved, the definition of acausal relationship between these characteristics and their market appreciation,expressed by price; the placement of the good inside this relationship according tothe described characteristics. This contribution discusses the elements of truth ofthis model, that in certain cases is very weak in epistemological and in logical termsas well, trying to stress the difference between “science of the valuations” and“estimation”, therefore between a science of the interpretation of the values and atechnique of simple observation and elicitations of occurrences by means ofstatistics procedures independent from the observer. In this sense it tries to comparesome aspects of the theory of truth to the main elements of the theory of value wegenerally apply, but not always with full awareness. The contribution constitutesthe initial part of a more extensive research. It analyzes some aspects of the relationbetween truth and value and highlights, on the grounds of the articulations of theproblem of the trueness and the nature of the evaluative statement, some relevantoperative issues of the discipline
Green practices for global supply chains in diverse industrial, geographical, and technological settings: A literature review and research agenda
No full textWith the rise in global consumption and the consequent intensive demand for global resources, the attention of scholars and practitioners towards greener supply chains has grown over the years. In this context, this study has two main aims. The first is to offer an up-to-date literature review of the ways in which sustainability is pursued in diverse settings, based on the sector, the geographical area, and the level of adoption of digital technologies of a company. The second aim is to identify the research gaps in this field, and to suggest directions for future investigations. The results of the structured literature review reveal that, although developed and developing countries tend to focus on different types of sustainable interventions, three factors are consistently considered to be crucial for the success of a sustainable initiative in global supply chains. These factors are the collaboration along the supply chain, the commitment of the top management, and the presence of environmentally-oriented policies or regulations. These three factors complicate the decision-making process that is needed to implement sustainable practices. Therefore, we suggest ways in which to design future research that better capture the real challenges of making environmentally conscious decisions, leveraging on the concepts of the Intertwined Supply Network (ISN) and the cognitive frame
Pietro Agostino: Il "Ministro" astrologo
No full textIl testamento e l'inventario di Pietro Agostino, Maestro razionale del Regno di Sicilia, permettono di ricostruire la complessa personalità di un "Ministro" del Regno di Sicilia. Un brillante rappresentante di una classe dirigente che utilizza la cultura, la preparazione tecnica e amministrativa, il controllo degli uffici pubblici e la curiosità intellettuale per innescare processi di dinamica sociale per l'ascesa sociale. Agostino è un astrologo e un collezionista, ma, soprattutto, espressione rilevante dell'umanesimo siciliano
La pena dell'alcol. Una ricerca-azione dell'intervento sociale nelle misure alternative
No full textIl volume riporta i risultati di una ricerca azione condotta con l'Amministrazione Penitenziaria sulle misure alternative alla pena concernenti gli alcolist
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