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Regulation to Foster Postal Financial Inclusion
No full textApart from the European Commission studies and the work carried out by the European Regulators Group for Postal Service at European Union (EU) level, little comparative work has been carried out recently on the legal and regulatory framework underpinning postal financial services,and still less on how effective this framework is in fostering financial inclusion.
In order to understand how a legal and regulatory framework can impact the role of the post office (post) in promoting financial inclusion, four case studies were conducted. They relate to developing countries whose organizational and regulatory frameworks are significantly different, despite a number of common country features, as follows.
• The contribution of the posts of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia to financial inclusion is significant. Initially, they had strong similarities due to the French influence. Since the beginning of the millennium, each country has adopted different approaches to modernize their postal infrastructure, as well as to tackle
financial inclusion.
• Viet Nam has the fastest growing economy in Southeast Asia. Its postal organization was also originally influenced by the French model. Unlike the three Maghreb countries in which posts and postal financial institutions are in state hands, financial service activities were transferred under an exclusive distribution agreement to a private bank of which the post is a small shareholder.
The four analyses, with their limitations, especially in relation to the opacity of data and the desk research nature of the project, relate to four developing countries endowed originally with a relatively dense postal network, quasi-universal delivery service and benefitting from the trust of the citizens, especially those on low-income.
In each country the postal network has been seen as an asset for financial inclusion and not a liability. Governments have been committed to financial inclusion although it has translated into very different policies and the use of different tools. Each post is fully state owned with Viet Nam the exception, being a post bank that is private. The policies adopted clearly show that politics trumps economics. Reforms, to be successful, have to fit into the distinctive political economies and priorities and, throughout the evolution process, involve the whole political spectrum of measures: state interventionist, pro-market or pro-private
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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