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Subjective Well Being and Heterogeneity in Cultural Consumption in the Aging Populations
Full text linkThe study investigates the relationship between cultural consumption patterns and well-being in the older population. Using data from the 2018 Italian Multipurpose Survey on Households “Aspects of daily life”, we employ Latent Class Analysis to identify distinct profiles of cultural consumers based on their attendance
and engagement in various cultural and art activities. We then investigate the effects of these cultural consumption profiles on life satisfaction and other domains of well-being, including leisure and friend satisfaction. Our findings reveal a positive association between cultural engagement and subjective well-being across different domains. Specifically, individuals who allocate more time to diverse culturalexperiences show higher levels of well-being. We also observe gender differences in well-being outcomes. These results highlight the importance of promoting cultural participation to enhance older adults’ well-being and inform the development of
targeted welfare policies
Disentangling the Role of Composition Factors in Fertility Responses to Unemployment
No full textUsing a macro-panel data set from 20 Italian regions, this study explores the relationship between unemployment and fertility in Italy between 2006 and 2018. It contributes to recent literature on this subject by considering gender-specific unemployment measures and examining the influence of two important compositional factors on fertility responses, namely the presence of foreign women and daily childcare coverage, and the influence of both of these on the link between unemployment and fertility. The study reveals a procyclical relationship between unemployment rates, used as a proxy of variations in business cycles, and fertility. Positive influences of foreign women's contribution and daily childcare coverage on fertility are uncovered, suggesting a potential mitigation effect on declining fertility trends during the period under observation
Accessibility and Older and Foreign Populations: Exploring Local Spatial Heterogeneities across Italy
Full text linkThe interplay between accessibility and population change is a relatively new subject in Italian academic research. Along with social and economic factors such as regional economic
prosperity, the ease of movement inside and outside an area can play a pivotal role in shaping
population dynamics. This study seeks to explore the spatial distribution and spatial relationships of
three indicators, including one related to real accessibility (RAI) and two others related, respectively,
to the shares of the older population (SOP) and of the foreign population (SFP). An exploratory spatial
data analysis is, therefore, conducted at the local level using Italian municipalities as the statistical
units for the empirical analysis. Local univariate spatial autocorrelation analysis is used together
with a regression analysis based on ordinary least squares (OLS) and geographically weighted
regression (GWR) models. The results provide valuable insights into the local heterogeneity that
characterizes the distribution of each indicator and the local relationship between them, highlighting
the importance of thinking locally in quantitative social sciences
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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