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Industrial parks and the next production revolution in Africa : the case of Ethiopia
No full textLAUREA MAGISTRALECoerentemente con la visione di sviluppo sostenibile promossa dagli accordi internazionali, gli stati africani si stanno adoperando per uno sviluppo che bilanci la crescita economica, l’inclusione sociale e la conservazione ambientale. Pertanto, un’industrializzazione inclusiva e sostenibile risulta un obiettivo fondamentale.
La tesi esamina la letteratura esistente sulle politiche e sullo sviluppo con l’obiettivo di approfondire il concetto di industrializzazione inclusiva e sostenibile e la politica di apertura dei parchi industriali in Etiopia, uno stato che sta crescendo rapidamente e che, nell’ultimo decennio, ha fondato sui parchi industriali la propria industrializzazione. Finora, il Paese ha dato priorità al basso costo della manodopera come vantaggio comparato e al settore industriale tradizionale per generare occupazione. Tuttavia, nei parchi industriali etiopi, la sostenibilità a lungo termine di questa strategia nonché la sua coerenza con il concetto di inclusione sociale sono ad oggi domande aperte. Inoltre, la letteratura disponibile non suggerisce come affrontarle. La tesi considera la Next Production Revolution (NPR, un paradigma di produzione che include ma non si limita all’Industria 4.0) come un potenziale strumento per guidare le attuali dinamiche di industrializzazione verso una crescita resiliente di lungo termine associata ai concetti di inclusione e sostenibilità.
La prima domanda di ricerca indaga se la NPR possa essere considerata un avvenimento desiderabile e fattibile in un Paese in via di sviluppo come l’Etiopia, e se e a quali condizioni possa rappresentare un modello di industrializzazione inclusiva e sostenibile per la nazione. Successivamente, focalizzandosi sui parchi industriali, l’elaborato si pone l’obiettivo di investigare se questi possano essere un’adeguata politica per sostenere l’industrializzazione dell’Etiopia (seconda domanda di ricerca) e se possano stimolare l’adozione della NPR (terza domanda di ricerca).
Al fine di rispondere a queste domande, una ricerca esplorativa è stata disegnata ed implementata utilizzando tre fonti di informazione. Più precisamente, sono state condotte interviste approfondite ai “policymakers”, una ricerca sui parchi industriali etiopi e un caso-studio sul parco industriale di Adama. Questi dati sono stati raccolti durante un soggiorno per studio della durata di tre mesi ad Addis Abeba.
I risultati del lavoro evidenziano che la NPR potrebbe sopperire ad alcuni problemi che caratterizzano l’attuale modello di industrializzazione dell’Etiopia, sebbene il paese potrebbe non essere attualmente pronto ad intraprendere la NPR. La carenza di infrastrutture e competenze e la continua tendenza ad usufruire del basso costo della manodopera per attrarre gli investimenti diretti esteri e promuovere le esportazioni, costituiscono le principali barriere. In secondo luogo, i parchi industriali si dimostrano un’efficace politica per favorire l’industrializzazione dell’Etiopia, sebbene sussistano problemi in termini di sostenibilità e manodopera. In terzo luogo, gli attuali parchi industriali riescono a far fronte solo parzialmente alle barriere per l’adozione della NPR, sebbene una nuova generazione di questi potrebbe supportare l’inserimento della NPR e un’industrializzazione sostenibile ed inclusiva nel medio-lungo periodo.
Data la natura esplorativa della presente tesi, i risultati necessitano un maggior approfondimento da parte di ricerche future.Coherently with the sustainable development vision promoted by international agreements, African countries are increasingly striving for a development path that balances economic growth, social inclusion and environment conservation. To this aim, inclusive and sustainable industrialization is a fundamental target.
The thesis surveys policy and development literature with the aim of deepening the concept of inclusive and sustainable industrialization and the policy of industrial parks (IPs) for Ethiopia, a country that is rapidly growing and has rooted its last decade industrialization process in IPs. So far, it prioritized low labour cost as a comparative advantage and traditional industries as an employment generation sector. However, the long-term sustainability of this strategy and its coherence with social inclusion are open questions today in Ethiopian IPs, nor available literature suggests how to tackle them. The thesis looks at the Next Production Revolution (NPR, a production paradigm including but not limited to Industry 4.0) as a potential means to steer the current industrialization dynamics toward a long-term and resilient growth in conjunction with sustainability and inclusion.
A first research question asks whether NPR could be reputed a desirable and feasible advent in a developing country such as Ethiopia, thus if and at which conditions it could represent a pattern for the nation’s inclusive and sustainable industrialization. Then, moving the focus to IPs, the work aims at investigating whether IPs are a proper policy to sustain the Ethiopian industrialization (second research question) and to spur NPR adoption (third research question).
In order to address the research questions, the thesis has designed and implemented an exploratory research that makes use of three sources of information, namely in-depth interviews of policymakers, a survey of Ethiopian IPs and Adama IP case study. These data were gathered during a three-months study visit in Addis Ababa.
The results of the work clarify that NPR could remedy part of the issues affecting the current pattern of Ethiopia’s industrialization, yet Ethiopia could not be ready to adopt NPR at the present. Major barriers are infrastructure and skills gaps and the persisting orientation toward the low labour cost advantage to attract FDI and to boost export. Second, IPs are showing to be an effective policy to foster the industrialization of Ethiopia, even though there are unresolved issues with sustainability and workforce. Third, the current generation of IPs only partially tackles the barriers to NPR adoption, yet a new IPs’ generation could support NPR introduction and sustainable and inclusive industrialization in the medium-long term.
Given the exploratory nature of present research, the results need to be reinforced through further research efforts
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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