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Human error always responsible for security breaches
No full textTim Fookes talks to chair of E-government at Victoria University, Professor Miriam Lips about how the public sector can prevent further security breaches like that at the Earthquake Commission
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Conditions for channel shift behaviours and simplification in business individuals' and small businesses’ online interactions with government
No full textThis research explores what would make it easier for business individuals and small businesses to deal with government agencies and use online channels instead of traditional channels in their interactions with government.
The research explores what channels business individuals and small businesses have used for particular activities in their dealings with government in the last year, and under what conditions they would be willing to shift from traditional channels to online channels and use these channels 12 easily and more seamlessly in end-to-end service provision and compliance processes with government. A specific focus in the research has been to explore the conditions under which individuals and small businesses would be willing to adopt end-to-end online processing of tax compliance processes, in particular Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE) deductions and Goods and Services Tax (GST).
The research found that although most small businesses participating in this research are willing to shift from traditional channels to online channels, the current way in which online channels are used in interactions with government is not sufficient to make it easier for these businesses: the administrative complexities experienced by the research participants are not so much a channel or technology issue, and need to be treated differently therefore. Government agencies need to design their (online) channel strategy and relationships more with the business customer in mind and, preferably, in close collaboration with the business community. Social media channels targeting business clients were hardly used or not used at all by the research participants, which may point towards a low return-on-investment for government agencies needing to manage and maintain these channels for only a small proportion of their customers. In general, government agencies will need to design their (online) channel strategy and relationships more with the business customer in mind and, preferably, in close collaboration with the business community.
Quite a few participants in this research commented that New Zealand government agencies are doing a good job in this respect and that online services are improving over time. However, this research points out that not only more, but particularly different things need to be done to make it easier for small businesses to interact with government in the digital age.
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This research project, is being conducted as part of Victoria University of Wellington’s (VUW) Research Programme ‘Government and Democracy in the Digital Age’, a five-year research programme led by Professor Miriam Lips, Chair in Digital Government at VUW’s School of Government, and developed in partnership with Datacom Systems Ltd, Department of Internal Affairs, Inland Revenue and the Ministry of Education
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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