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Moroni L. Jensen to Muriel Humphrey and Family, 16 January 1978
Full text linkTyped letter signed dated 16 January 1978 from Moroni L. Jensen, President of Utah State Senate, to Muriel Humphrey and Family, re: tribute to Humphrey. Attached: copy Utah State Senate Journal (16 January 1978), re: above topic. Attached: broadside, re: Utah State Legislature Resolution giving tribute to Hubert Humphrey.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/joecorr_e/1001/thumbnail.jp
Il regionalismo differenziato tra forma legislativa e sostanza amministrativa
No full textAttraverso l’analisi della problematica allocazione delle funzioni amministrative “non fondamentali” nei Comuni della Sardegna, il saggio intende evidenziare le difficoltà nelle quali potrebbero incorrere le Regioni ordinarie che, in attuazione del regionalismo differenziato, si concentrassero sull’acquisizione di nuove materie di competenza legislativa esclusiva senza preoccuparsi dell’allocazione delle relative funzioni amministrative.Through an analysis of the problematic allocation of “non-fundamental” administrative functions in Sardinian municipalities, the essay aims to highlight the difficulties in which ordinary regions might run into if, in implementing differentiated regionalism, they focus on acquiring new matters of exclusive legislative competence without worrying about the allocation of related administrative functions
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
A PLS path model to investigate the relations between institutions and human development"
No full textThe paper studies the relations between institutions and human development, in
particular the causal effects of the different types of institutions on different components of human development. We assume development to be created by aggregate demand; in particular that aggregate demand determines the material components of human development.
We thus divide institutions into those that create demand and those that are determined by the
whole process of development. Similarlywe divide human development in its three traditional
components (economic development, health, knowledge). Both human development and
institutions are assumed to be multidimensional constructs; all the main components of
these constructs are defined as latent variables, and the relations between them as structural
relations. A partial least squares (PLS) path model is developed: it is the aggregation (and
simultaneous estimation) of an outer model relating observed or manifest variables to their
own latent variable and of a structural model (inner model) relating some endogenous latent
variable to other latent variables. From the goodness of fit point of view, our results seem to
validate our theoretical assumptions
Local Concordance and Some Applications
No full textOne of the main issues when analyzing multidimensional phenomena such as well being is how to define a composite indicator. However a sometimes neglected collateral issue is how to take into account the joint distribution of the single components, and connected with this issue the question should be: how to compute the association among the single components of a multidimensional concept. This is precisely the aim of this paper. We suggest a counting based approach to detect positive association amongst the single components of multivariate phenomena, in particular among the best performing units and vice-versa among the worst performing units. Taking moves from Kendall’s notion of concordance/agreement and from his well known concordance coefficient W (Kendall and Babington Smith in Ann Math Stat 10:275–287, 1939), we introduce the concept of local concordance and derive a local concordance coefficient and a local concordance curve. Our intent is to have, not an overall measure of concordance, i.e. not a global indicator, but instead local concordance coefficients to detect different degrees of concordance in the head, tail or centre of the multivariate distribution of the components of a well being indicator. The local concordance curve can have many different applications. When referred to the components of a well being indicator (and thus to inequality), the local concordance coefficient obtained from the first (last) window can be seen as a measure of concentration of high-level (or low-level) attributes. We apply this approach to exploit whether different aspects of social vulnerability are equally or unequally distributed among censuary areas of a same region
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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