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A framework to evaluate the Italian strategic path towards eGovernment
No full textIn the last few years governments are trying to build up the so called “Information Society” (Anttiroiko 2001), a society able to manage information making wide use of the most innovative ICT. This would lead implementing the eGovernment, here defined as “a public organization that make extensive use of ICT”. Also Italy, like the other main European countries, has carried out high investments in this direction, realizing innovative technological solutions within Central and Local Public Authority (CPA and LPA). These solutions have had not only a positive return in terms of easiness, flexibility, speed and security of the operations, but also a wide international echo, as showed from awards and acknowledgements received in terms of “best practice”. This paper analyses the strategic path that has been followed by the Italian Public Authority implementing eGovernment; through this analysis it points out a framework to represent all the strategic elements and relationships conceived to yield the objectives of the eGovernment strategy. This framework will be also used to evaluate the Italian LPAs path towards eGovernment: the overall PA initiatives and policies will be classified according with the strategic framework. This will constitutes the basis through which the main eGovernment obstacles and solutions will be identified
Shortcomings in evaluating IT governance in the Italian Public Sector
No full textThe digitalisation of the italian public sector aims to simplify the complex of relationship among Public Authorities (PAs) and between PA and its customers (citizens or businesses) exploiting the potentialities of integration, inter-connectivity and multi-channel approaches offered by new technologies. the high complexity due to the PA national competence and to the different users involved imposes an "IT governance" approch: in this context the strategic decisions concerning the IT investments cannot be left to the case or simply delegated to the IS department discretio; they need a strategic direction able to ensure homogeneity and coordination at a national level. IT governance satisfies this requirement since it imposes formalised planning models that can be referenced by all Local PAs (LPAs) involved in the implementing phase as warranty oh homogeneity and integration. These models do not only refer to the strategic plannig: they also allow the systematic use of performance estimation methods for a fast analysis of the strategic designs' implemantation e.e. analysis of the components' answers involved in the innovation process. this paper evaluates the adequacy of the estimation approach adopted by the italian PA to highlight the cause and effect relations among the strategic components and the Criticall Success Factos (CSFs) that should be under control. Therefore , the actual PA control parameters will be showed the comparison between tha actual control values and the expected ones will highlight that the IT governance approach has not been adopted by the italian PA yet, although all the circumstances evidence that it should be
Gestione Informatica dei dati Aziendali - L'interrogazione delle basi di dati con lo Structured Query Language.
No full textTesto didattico con applicazioni pratiche di SQ
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
Livelli di burnout, distress psicologico e caratteristiche alessitimiche nel personale sanitario in servizio presso una Unità Funzionale di Salute Mentale Adulti
No full textVariations 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
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