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    INNOVATIVENESS SURVEY ON MANUFACTURING COMPANIES IN TASIKMALAYA CITY

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    Innovation is one of most important sources of competitive advantage. The purpose of this paper is to analyze innovativeness by using the 55 operations managers of manufacturing companies in Tasikmalaya City as respondents. The results showed the four types of clusters of Innovativeness consisting of (1) Leading Innovator that have the out class value than the others in every aspects of innovativeness, (2) Followers cluster is as the very low radical product innovations capability, (3) Inventors are very strong in radical product innovations, while (4) Lagers are at the lowest scores in all innovation types among the clusters. Based on ANOVA, it is concluded that every group of innovation type has its own success difference. The leading innovators type has the highest mean of business success measured by the comparison innovations type among groups in the growth of sales

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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

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    We 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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    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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

    Kajian Pengambilan Keputusan Operasi dalam Industri Pengolahan Besi Baja di Indonesia

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    Muhammad Tresnadi Hikmat (Universitas Padjajaran) ([email protected]) ; Ina Primiana (Universitas Padjajaran)Iron and Steel industry are an industry that requires high accuracy in decision making because of several factors such as the technical impact of the decision, safety factors (Health Safety Environment) and the economic impact from the decision. This paper discusses the operational decision making which are crucial in managing operations of an iron and steel processing plant. The determination of decision is based on experience and expertise that are based on engineering calculations from the supporting engineers. The method used are conducting a qualitative study on two decision making cases by interviewing the senior engineer of several iron and steel companies in Indonesia. Results show that the heuristic approach to decision making are the dominant method and perceived as effective for operational activities that are technical in nature. But whether this method is the best is still questionable. Because thereare other approaches that can gather many experts and can make better technical decisions such as using pairwise comparisons. Limitations of this research are the amount of interviewed persons that does not generalize the real situations in the iron and steel industry in Indonesia. This study will contribute to the studies on operational management in iron and steel industries and provides managerial insights for stakeholders that are in the field of of iron and steel and other similar industries
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