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“Business” as an Art Form
Get PDFThe continuous advancement of technology and its uses have paved the path for what we call today the ‘digital economy’. The success of any business in today’s environment requires plasticity to its most precious
available material: data. ‘Plasticity’ has been associated to visual artists who through the use of different materials have created beautiful products that
satisfy human tendency of emotion, beauty and pleasure. The creation of these products requires the appropriate balance of elements and principles and is synonymous to what is needed by today’s businesses: the balance
between three specializations - Art, Science and Technology. While Science observes and Technology builds, Art and its fields of action is what creates,and the objects of this creation is what customers consume.
Businesses exist to produce and distribute visual cultural references, either through a product and/or service. To remain relevant businesses need
to come up with new ways to deliver to the vast amount of diverse experiences that humans seek. If done successfully, with the ‘plasticity’ of data, this will result in sustainable profitable success.
The findings from this paper have implications for future leaders,strategic conversations and the reshaping of future businesses
Finding yourselves in a changing world of work
No full textThe career landscape is changing at an unprecedented pace. As a result, students in post-secondary education, and those that have recently graduated from post-secondary education, face tensions between the education system and real-world employment. Are post-secondary institutions sufficiently preparing students to navigate the changing work environment with the training and skills they acquired during school? This study explores “How might individuals discover future work aspirations during a conventional post-secondary course of study?”.
While every person has the right to write their own story, dysfunctions in the social system inhibit our journey towards finding the right places where we can realize our full potential. For example, the lingering perception that post-secondary education is the default path to success and a curriculum that hinders self-reflection results in disillusionment among generations of graduates who find themselves stuck on a career path leading in the opposite direction than their actual goals. Fixing the dysfunctions can help alleviate the problem of 40.5% of graduates being unemployed and underemployed (CIBC).
A gigamap is a visual design tool used to describe and illustrate the complexity of a wicked problem and the associated greater system in consideration with respect to the research question. The research team conceptualized this system as a pinball machine to emphasize the limits of control that youth have in finding a career in Canada. The eroding goals and shifting the burden archetypes and the multi-level learning loop diagrams are used to describe different reactions to the feeling of being stuck. Through this gigamap, we can begin to unravel the forces that move individual aspirations in hopes of generating insights that lead individuals onto the path of fulfillment. Thus, our wicked problem is the tension between inter-generational values, the needs of the changing world and the speed of the educational system adapting to this phenomenon.
Tal, B., (June 20, 2013) In Focus Tenth of Canadians aged 15 to 24 not employed or in school. CIBC Capital Markets
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
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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