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The indirect environmental effects of taxing waste
No full textThis paper investigates the indirect effects of environmental policies that target waste production, i.e., pay-as-you-throw (PAYT) schemes. Using a newly constructed longitudinal dataset of Italian municipalities and a stacked difference-in-differences design, we find that PAYT adoption generates positive effects on pro-environmental behaviors not directly targeted by the policy (indirect effects), in addition to reducing unsorted waste production (direct effect). Survey evidence shows that PAYT increases the salience of environmental issues among treated residents, which in turn strengthens their pro-environmental attitudes. These findings suggest that narrowly targeted environmental policies can lead to broader behavioral changes by fostering environmental awareness
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
Editorial. new horizons in robotic platforms
No full textAt the beginning of the 21st century, the first Intuitive Surgical Da Vinci system was introduced. Historically, the AESOP and ZEUS systems were the first robots adopted in general surgery before Intuitive and American Computer Motion merged into a single company. By 2023, over 7500 robotic platforms have been installed, with over 11 million surgeries performed worldwide. The success of the robotic platform relies on the magnification, 3D imaging, motion scaling, tremor filtration, dexterity and quick learning curve of the machine. After many years of monopoly by Intuitive, several companies have proposed new robotic platforms that may challenge the Da Vinci system [1]
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
Re: Edward Lambert, Emmanuel Chartier-Kastler, Christophe Vaessen, et al. Robot-assisted periprostatic artificial urinary sphincter implantation in men with neurogenic stress urinary incontinence: description of the surgical technique and comparison of long-term functional outcomes with the open approach
No full textA total of 65 patients underwent pAUSi between 2000
and 2022, of whom 33 underwent open pAUSi (2000–
2011) and 32 underwent robot-assisted pAUSi (2011–
2022). According to the results, robot-assisted pAUSi was
superior to the open approach in terms of median operative
time, estimated blood loss, and median length of hospital
stay (LOS), while the achievement of complete urinary continence was comparable between the groups. A trend for
longer SRFS was observed in the robot-assisted pAUSi group
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