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Lowy Institute Poll 2013
No full textThe Lowy Institute Poll surveys are designed to capture and track any long-term changes in Australian public opinions on a broad range of foreign policy issues. The 2013 Lowy Institute Poll reports the results of a nationally representative opinion survey of 1,002 Australian adults 18 years and older conducted in Australia between 4 and 20 March 2013 using mobile and landline telephones. This is the ninth in the series and repeats many of the questions asked in earlier polls (ADA Study Numbers 01084, 01114, 01126, 01134, 01158, 01238, 01239 and 01253), revealing trends in public opinion on topics including foreign policy, international security, climate change, and attitudes towards the United States and China. Topics covered in this wave include Election 2013, worlds superpower, China, security and defence, US alliance, international economy, climate change, global warming and Emissions trading scheme, the rise of Asia, Indonesia, Asylum seekers and offshore processing, democracy, UN Security Council, 'Angloshpere', terrorism, WikiLeaks, and where Australians get their international news. Background variables include age group, gender, voting preferences, country of birth and parents' country of birth, language spoken at home, income and highest level of education
Lowy Institute Poll 2014
No full textThe 2014 Lowy Institute Poll is the tenth annual poll conducted by the Lowy Institute in Australia on public opinion and foreign policy. For this year’s poll, market research company I-view conducted a total of 1,150 interviews between 12 February and 27 February 2014 by mobile and fixed telephone, with a sample designed to be nationally representative of all Australians 18 years and older. A number of the questions in the Poll were asked in previous polls, or have been adapted from questions in those polls which allows for comparison over time. The questions in the 2014 Poll probed feelings towards a range of (21) nations, attitudes to Chinese investment and China as a military threat, which of six countries in Asia was Australia’s ‘best friend in Asia’, alliance with the US, attitudes to the intelligence practices of the Australian government, relations with Indonesia, climate change, asylum seeker policy, population and immigration, attitudes to democracy, republic and international standing, foreign investment, overseas aid, various world leaders, and a range of threats to Australia’s vital interests
Lowy Institute Poll 2015
No full textThe Lowy Institute Poll reports the results of the Institute's annual nationally representative telephone opinion survey, conducted in 2015 by market research company I-view, with supplementary polling commissioned by the Lowy Institute and conducted by Newspoll. Supplementary Newspoll collections are not provided in the dataset. For the annual survey, I-view surveyed 1200 Australian adults between 20 February and 8 March 2015. Four supplementary polls were conducted by Newspoll on 13-15 February (1211 adults), 10-12 April (1215 adults), 1-3 May (1213 adults) and 22-24 May (1210 adults), the findings from these are in the reports but not in the data.
A number of the questions in the Poll were first asked in previous Lowy Institute Polls, or have been adapted from questions asked in those years. Repeating questions in successive years allows the comparison of public opinion on a single issue over time, building trend data on important international policy issues.
Some of the questions this year are identical to questions asked previously by other survey organisations, which allows for the comparison of public opinion internationally. Several of the questions in this year’s Poll were modeled on those asked by other polling organisations, including the Council on Foreign Relations, Transatlantic Trends and Pew Research Center. Other questions this year drew from work of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and polling on energy sources by Bisconti Research for the Nuclear Energy Institute.The order of questions in the questionnaires was different from the order presented in the report supplied in documentation
Lowy Institute Poll, 2017
No full textThe 2017 Poll is the thirteenth annual Poll by the Lowy Institute in Australia on public opinion and foreign policy. The 2017 Lowy Institute Poll reports the results of the annual nationally representative telephone opinion survey, conducted between 1 and 21 March 2017 with a sample size of 1200 Australian adults 18 years and older. The Poll has incorporated a broad range of questions about some of Australia's most important relationships, including those with the United States and China, and asked Australians to consider how much they trust various global powers. The Poll probes attitudes to the US alliance in the Trump era, as well as feelings about the president himself. It also asked Australians for their opinions on topical issues such as climate change and renewable energy, immigration, and Australia's asylum seeker policies
Lowy Institute Poll, 2016
No full textThis is the twelfth annual Lowy institute Poll. The 2016 Lowy Institute Poll reports the annual results on nationally representative telephone opinion survey, conducted between 26 February and 15 March 2016 with a sample size of 1202 Australian adults. 2016 is a year of elections, with a federal election in Australia, a presidential election in the United States, and the selection of a new Secretary-General of the United Nations. The 2016 Lowy Institute Poll provides new data on how Australians feel about these various contests. Some of the questions in this survey are identical to questions asked previously or by other survey organisations, including Pew Research Center, The Scanlon Foundation, The Environics Institute for Survey Research and Chicago Council on Global Affairs, which allows for the comparison of public opinion internationally. The order of questions in the questionnaire is different from the order presented in affiliated report. The surveys were funded entirely by the Lowy Institute for International Policy
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
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