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Book review: Risk: a study of its origins, history and politics by Matthias Beck and Beth Kewell
No full text"Risk: A Study of its Origins, History and Politics." Matthias Beck and Beth Kewell. World Scientific Publishing. March 2014. --- Over a period of several centuries, the academic study of risk has evolved as a distinct body of thought, which continues to influence conceptual developments in fields such as economics, management, politics and sociology. Risk: A Study of its Origins, History and Politics aims to provide a detailed study of key turning points in the evolution of society’s understanding of risk. Matthias Beck and Beth Kewell map the political origins and moral reach of some of the most influential ideas associated with risk and uncertainty at specific periods of time. Political historians will find much of interest, writes Maria Zhivitskaya. This book has the potential to make a prominent contribution in its field, for the reason that others can work to fill the gaps the authors leave
Bivariate Chromatic Polynomials of Mixed Graphs
Full text linkThe bivariate chromatic polynomial of a graph ,
introduced by Dohmen-P\"{o}nitz-Tittmann (2003), counts all -colorings of
such that adjacent vertices get different colors if they are . We
extend this notion to mixed graphs, which have both directed and undirected
edges. Our main result is a decomposition formula which expresses
as a sum of bivariate order polynomials (Beck-Farahmand-Karunaratne-Zuniga Ruiz
2020), and a combinatorial reciprocity theorem for .Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures, To appear in DMTCS vol.25:2 #2 (2023
Public Private Partnership in Italy: State of art, Trends and Proposals
No full textThe concept of Public Private Partnership (PPP) in Taiwan can be traced back to the Chinese Qing dynasty over a century ago when Governor Liu Ming-chuan petitioned the government to permit the private sector to raise money for constructing railroads from northern to southern Taiwan. Based on the valuable experience obtained in the first mega PPP project, the Act for Promotion of Private Participation in Infrastructure Projects was promulgated in 2000 and became the institutional framework for PPPs in Taiwan. Formal institutions are classified as 'contractual' and 'legal'. For contractual aspects, the Taiwanese Ministry of Finance provides model contracts for each PPP type, e.g. BOO (build-own-operate). The National PPP Taskforce was established in 2000 under the Public Construction Commission (PCC) which is the highest administrative organ in charge of public works development in Taiwan. An analysis of authorities in charge shows that fifty two percent of all cases were administered by the central government
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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