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Tra sostenibilità sociale e benessere soggettivo. Lo spazio del lavoro dignitoso
Full text linkSustainability and Well-being. The Key of Decent Work as Cornerstone of Human Development.
Sustainability is the mainstream issue of this century, while sustainable human development leans mainly on quality of life and subjective well-being for the entire mankind.
This study introduces in synthesis the concept of sustainability It proceeds describing fundamental tools and methodologies, adopted in international contexts, to measure subjective well-being. The underlying idea is that subjective well-being is strictly connected to social relations and to social identity in particular. One of the domains in which the concept of identity and the goal of social sustainability are strongly related is decent work. Decent work is a multidimensional concept. This study describes some different sets of indicators and some data concerning work conditions in the world. Two operative chapters are devoted to subjective well-being indicators in official statistical surveys. The first describes the methodological approaches. The second presents the statistical analyses and some results. In particular there is an application of a synthesis methodology to ordinal variables based on discrete mathematics. The analyses explore available contents in the official statistics and investigate the presence of hidden information not yet exploited. The last chapter reaffirms the concept of identity and its link with the meaning of work and subjective and social well-being. It briefly introduces an experience of training and motivational intervention in a social cooperative
Non-aggregative Assessment of Subjective Well-being
No full textIn this paper, we introduce a new methodology for socio-economic evaluation with ordinal data, which allows to compute synthetic indicators without variable aggregation, overcoming some of the major problems when classical evaluation procedures are employed in an ordinal setting. In the paper, we describe the methodology step by step, discussing its conceptual and analytical structure. For exemplification purposes, we apply the methodology to real data pertaining to subjective well-being in Italy, for year 2010
Computer skills for e-learning activities of university students: A posetic approach
No full textThe motivation comes from an international research project promoted by the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), that conducted a large-scale
survey on the COVID-19 effects on higher education students. The survey contains different ordinal variables and other categorical variables
describing the academic environment. This data structure configures a partially ordered set (poset); therefore, the Fuzzy First Order Dominance
(FFOD) method is particularly indicated to analyze it. By focussing on the Italian academic context, the FFOD is employed to explore the responses
provided by a sample of students enrolled in degree or doctorate courses of Italian universities. During the lockdown, these students were asked to
score their computer skills related to the e-learning activities. The considered ordered variables concern students’ expertise in both managing digital
communication/information channels and using more specific platforms for online lectures and academic support to their studies. The ratings are
analyzed with the FFOD method to accomplish a comparative evaluation of different study courses and assess possible relationships of the resulting
orderings with other academic variables typically impacting on university performance
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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