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Valutazione di una scala di insicurezza alimentare tramite modelli ad equazioni simultanee
No full textTechniques for analyzing and presenting official statistics indicators
No full textThis paper considers different perspectives of indicators produced by official statistics agencies, with an emphasis on technical aspects. We discuss statistical methods, impact, scope and action operationalisation of official statistic indicators. The focus is on multivariate aspects in analysing and communicating such indicators. To illustrate the points made in the paper, we use examples from well-being indicators, from the UN sustainable development goals and a Eurobarometer example. The overall objective is to enhance the added value of official statistics indicators, as they are communicated, and thus strengthen evidence-based policy-making
Measuring Complex Socio-economic Phenomena. Conceptual and Methodological Issues
No full textThe object of this book is to analyze how climate change can be a driver for sustainable growth by considering different disciplinary approaches. The starting point for such a reflection is to determine what is climate change and what sustainable growth means. Only then will we be able to investigate whether and how climate change may affect sustainable growth. The answer to these questions, which will be addressed in the following chapters, is not an easy task. The difficulty in understanding socioeconomic phenomena such as those examined in this volume is linked to their complexity
Analisi del benessere e della povertà multidimensionale nello sviluppo umano sostenibile
No full textDemographic and Economic Determinants of Digitalization in Healthcare: An Exploratory Analysis of the Italian Local Health Centers
No full textThe last few years have seen an increasing attention of academics and professionals towards the evaluation of the impact of digitization in the healthcare sector. However, previous studies have mainly focused on the potential effects and benefits of disruptive technologies on the whole healthcare system and have not focused on the analysis of the fundamental parameters at the introduction of new computerised processes within this sector. This study investigates the demographic and economic determinants of digitisation, focusing on the population of Italian ASLs. To conduct the analysis, we adopt the Tobit model. The construction of a weighted composite indicator makes it possible to measure the level of digitization of individual healthcare organisations, highlighting the critical issues present within the variables that make up the indicator. Although the results confirm our hypotheses, some critical reflections emerge regarding the digitization policies adopted. This study offers important theoretical and practical implications and enriches the current literature on the topic of digitization in healthcare
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
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