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Processi riproduttivi e salute riproduttiva in Europa: problemi di definizione ed integrazione delle fonti statistiche
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Empirical Macromodeling of Operating System Communication Primitives, Probabilistic Analysis Techniques for Real Time and Embedded Systems
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The impact of the bonus at birth on reproductive behaviour in a lowest-low fertility context: Friuli-Venezia Giulia (Italy) from 1989-2005
No full textAs of 1 January 2000 the government of the north-eastern Italian region of Friuli-
Venezia Giulia (FVG) introduced a substantial bonus at birth. The birth bonus
was differentiated by marital status (only married women were eligible),
citizenship (only Italians were eligible), and birth order (the bonus grew for the
second and especially the third birth). Moreover, the income threshold below
which one got the bonus was fairly high. As of 1 January 2004 a new government
substantially reduced the bonus amount as well as the upper income limit. We
evaluate if the bonuses handed out in FVG during those four years (2000-03) had
a significant impact on fertility and abortion choices, verifying whether fertility
changed in a different way for women more affected by the new legislation. We
also test if the impact of monetary measures was higher for less educated women,
because in Italy the relationship between income and education is very strong, and
the bonus was practically the same irrespective of income level, hence its relative
impact should be stronger in a poorer family. We use two different methods: First,
we compare the trends of births and abortion ratios, separately for women
affected and not affected by the monetary measures, looking at the differential
changes. Second, using log-linear models, we measure if the interactions among
time, parity, marital status, citizenship and education are statistically significant in
the direction that follows our expectations. Our results show that for low educated
(and hence also less rich) women with one or (especially) two and more children,
birth trends did change after 1999, whereas the trends for childless women living
in FVG and for low-educated women living in other Italian regions did not
change
Analyzing Power Consumption of Message Passing Primitives in a Single-Chip Multiprocessor
No full textGoing 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
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