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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
Labour supply in New Zealand and Australia: 1919-1939
No full textThis thesis is a study of the New Zealand and Australian labour markets in the years between the First and Second World Wars. Its specific focus is on the reasons why people entered or withdrew from the workforce. In other words, it focuses on choices made by households with regard to alternative activities of which employment is but one. While the research is based on drawing parallels between the experiences of New Zealand and Australia, the emphasis of the study has been to use a wide range of material to measure and monitor the New Zealand workforce.
There are three main innovations in the approach taken by this study. First, it is not a standard comparative exercise. While Australian data and literature are used to establish the plausibility of the findings with respect to New Zealand, Australian data are also used as the basis for deriving workforce and employment estimates for New Zealand in years when there are no New Zealand data. In particular, the Australian census taken during the Great Depression in 1933 is used to estimate New Zealand employment and unemployment levels. Second, much of the research focuses on alternative activities usually associated with people within specific age ranges or a specific gender. Such activities include schooling, child-rearing, and retirement. Third, labour supply behaviour is interpreted through the theoretical framework of the additional worker model. The model focuses on the role of households rather than individuals as suppliers of labour, emphasising both the need of households to supply additional labour when their real disposable incomes are falling and the ability of households to withdraw or withhold family members from the labour market at times when a single breadwinner is able to support the entire household.
A study of factory employment and earnings is conducted as a means of following annual changes in labour market activity. The technique of wage overhang is applied to the manufacturing sector, making it possible to reject the view that women constituted an expendable "reserve army", easily discarded during periods in which economic activity was slow and available for exploitation at times of peak demand. By combining a study of annual factory employment data with census workforce data, this thesis produces annual estimates of employment, workforce participation and unemployment in New Zealand. The estimates are disaggregated into four groups: adult males, adult females, male minors and female minors.
This study concludes that the level of joblessness in New Zealand during the Great Depression was much more widespread than has been acknowledged in previous quantitative studies. This conclusion is based in part on the rejection of the term "unemployment" as it is defined today; a term which provides little understanding of the variety of circumstances faced by and responses of those people who could not find regular employment
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
Government financial institutions in New Zealand to 1914
No full textThis thesis reviews government involvement in the New Zealand financial system before 1914 and attempts to determine the arguments used and their validity. Principal sources are the project, 'The Growth and Role of the N.Z. Financial System' conducted by Professor G.R. Hawke and Professor D.K. Sheppard of Victoria University since 1979, the Parliamentary Debates, the Appendices to the Journals of the House of Representatives and published histories of institutions concerned.
The Introduction summarises the theoretical background and briefly details the general economic trends. Chapter 1 discusses the size of the government involvement, the structure of the financial system, private institutions, government finances, the involvement of New Zealand financial institutions (voluntary or otherwise) in holding government securities and trends in interest rates. The remaining three chapters look at the creation and operations of the various government linked financial institutions. Chapter 2 concentrates on State Banking. This begins by discussing the short-lived Colonial Bank of Issue and subsequent attempts to create a successor, then goes on to discuss the Bank of New Zealand rescue, the State Advances scheme and the allocation of the government bank account. Chapter 3 discusses the two Savings Bank systems. It outlines the history of the original British institutions and the New Zealand versions. This is followed by discussion of interest rates, competition between the two systems, the regional distribution of savings and the investment policies of the Trustee Savings Banks. Chapter 4 discusses State Accident and State Fire Insurance, Government Life Insurance, the Public Trust Office and the superannuation funds.
The Conclusion argues that government involvement was based on various combinations of the following ideas : (i) desire to promote self-provision of retirement income; (ii) mobilisation of small savings; (iii) promoting of economic growth through (a) provision of cheap credit for farmers (b) fostering confidence in the economy and financial system (BNZ rescue); (iv) filling a gap in private sector provision of financial services; (v) prevention of unfair trading practices; (vi) provision of a guaranteed investment or savings with a below market return; (vii) financing of government activities; (viii) a State Bank; (ix) protection and promotion of New Zealand interests against foreign competitors
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
The Control of Alcoholic Beverage Markets in New Zealand
No full textThis thesis studies the interaction of regulation and organisation in New Zealand alcoholic beverage markets. It discusses why these markets were regulated, and the form of regulation. An important outcome of regulation was the erection of barriers to entry. Its impact on market organisation is analysed. This is followed by analyses of the rationales for three forms of organisation present in New Zealand alcoholic beverage markets, namely vertical integration, horizontal integration, and exclusive dealing. The competitive aspects of these organisational forms are highlighted
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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