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Does religiosity promote environmental values that underpin sustainable meat consumption? A study in the context of an emerging nation
No full textSustainability is becoming increasingly important in consumers' food choices. Sustainable meat consumption is a central topic in nutrition, and a relevant issue for consumer studies. This study aims to fill the gap by examining the effect of religiosity on consumer's pro-environmental values (Altruistic and Egoistic) towards sustainable meat consumption intention. Data will be collect through online survey from meat consumers. Data analysis will be done through confirmatory factor analysis and moderation will be done through process macro. The present research is one of the initial attempts in the Pakistani context to understand the importance of religiosity on values (altruistic and egoistic) towards meat consumption
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
Cultural tourism clusters: experiences from Ireland
No full text[Extract] The very concept of cultural tourism suggests that there is a symbiotic relationship between the arts and tourism, and that opportunities for cluster development abound. In fact, relationships between artists and travelers have existed for centuries. The concept of 'cultural tourism' is said to date from the beginning of the 17th century when an educated, wealthy elite undertook the Grand Tour (Towner 1984). However, it is only recently that governments have begun to recognize the value of supporting cooperative activity between tourism and the arts. This chapter presents a case study of a cultural tourism cluster in the South-West of Ireland. The research illustrates some of the opportunities and problems that small communities encounter in their attempts to develop cultural tourism. Conclusions are drawn regarding the potential of clustering to support, or hinder, the achievement of arts and tourism policy objectives. The author concludes that cultural tourism clusters are valuable, but they are not the panacea to local economic development that public policy makers suggest they are
Shifting membership in arts-tourism networks: an exploration of the Australian Festival of Chamber Music
Full text linkThe purpose of this paper to explore membership structures of an Australian chamber music network. A longitudinal approach is taken in order to explore changes in membership and their impact on network outcomes. The paper begins by reviewing the literature on networks and goes on to describe the Australian Festival of Chamber Music. This festival takes place in a city that is far removed from the centre of the arts world, yet it has succeeded in attracting and retaining a large audience. Through a case study, it is demonstrated that a non-profit arts organisation is using tourism networks to host special events and in an attempt to solve economic problems. The authors propose a typology consisting of two main types of networks: a core, value-creation, vertical network and a peripheral, value-enhancing, horizontal network. Conclusions are drawn about the potential of arts-tourism networks to support, and hinder, the achievement of organisational objectives. The author concludes that arts-tourism networks are valuable but they are not the panacea that public policy makers would like us to believe
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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