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Class Trips - Interview with Barb Mikulec
No full textBarb remembers taking her Emily Carr Elementary School students to the future site of VanDusen Garden for free skating on the ponds
A decade of European agendas on adult learning (2011 and 2021). Shifts in the beliefs of the Council of the European Union
No full textAlthough the European Union (EU) has limited formal competences in education, the current millennium has been marked by the aspiration to build a ‘European space of education’ (Hingel 2001), strategic goals which find support in the EU’s multiannual financial framework. Accordingly, education has come to be recognised as an important element of the European integration project, and is subject to European governance (Milana 2023).
Previous research has traced continuity and change in the evolution of the ideational foundation of EU adult learning and skills policies, demonstrating that external shocks to the EU political system, like the 2010 Eurozone Crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, have produced incremental changes in this policy trajectory (e. g. made skills investment more urgent and pressing), but basically confirmed its dominant economic orientation (Bussi/Milana forthcoming). This prevails in spite of the fact that crisis narratives popularised during the pandemic had the potential to bring change in education policy (e. g., Morris/Park/Auld 2022; Zancajo/Verger/Bolea 2022) and that adult learning rose in visibility under COVID-19 (Milana/Mikulec 2023).
Against this backdrop this chapter examines continuity and change in the Council’s beliefs on adult learning, crystallised in its ten-year agendas, which followed the 2010 Eurozone Crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, respectively. To this scope we performed an analysis of the Council’s belief systems at two points in time (2011 and 2021), drawing on the actor coalition framework (Sabatier/Weible 2007) and its distinction between deep core, policy core and secondary beliefs. Moreover, the chapter considers which policy actors are called upon by the Council in 2011 and 2021 to implement its agendas on adult learning
Optimalizace podmínek výkonnosti pracovníků ve společnosti Vladimír Mikulec Ing. - Novatronic
No full textPředmětem diplomové práce je analýza vlivu konkrétních podmínek ovlivňujících výkonnost pracovníků ve společnosti Vladimír Mikulec Ing. ? Novatronic a také identifikace případných nedostatků v této oblasti. Empirická část zahrnuje dotazníkové šetření ve společnosti, rozhovory s pracovníky a také polostandardizovaný rozhovor s ředitelem společnosti. Na závěr je vymezen soubor návrhů a doporučení, které by měly přispět ke zlepšení zkoumané situace ve společnosti
Utjecaj SNUS-a i nikotinskih vrećica na javno zdravlje i zdravlje mladih
No full textEmir Ibrišimović, Emira Tanović Mikulec, Lemana Terzhimehi
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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