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An example of “posetic” approach applied to the Argentinian context
No full textIn recent years, many approaches were applied to analyse cases of urban deprivation in
relation to a specific country. Argentina can be considered as a case of deeply fragmented urban
reality; using an aggregative method we could risk to alter the veracity of the study. In this paper,
the non-aggregative quantitative method of the POSET is proposed, with the intention of making
up for the methodological defects that the application of an aggregative method would imply with
regard to the study of deprivation phenomena. We focus our attention on material and social
deprivation. The aim of the study is to provide an explanatory tool about the Argentinian urban
context in the different areas of the country, as well as a starting point for broader political
assessments
Economics and Sociology Meet Socialism: Sombart, Durkheim and Pareto
No full textAbstract This paper intends to re-examine the reflections of Werner Sombart,
Vilfredo Pareto and Emile Durkheim, who provide general guide to interpreting
some crucial elements of the discussions on Marxism and socialism from 1895 to
1901. From November 1895 to May 1896, Durkheim starts a broad reflection on
socialism and Saint-Simon in a course held at the University of Bordeaux, where he
begins a comprehensive evaluation of the “history of Socialism”, including also the
assessment of thinkers like Fourier, Proudhon, Lassalle and Marx. Sombart in 1896
publishes a collection of eight lectures held in Zurich, highlighting the link between
his reflection on socialism and the analysis on “modern capitalism” he develops in
Der moderne Kapitalismus. Pareto publishes Sistemi Socialisti in 1901, after a
systematic reflection on socialism begun in 1896, which allows him to verify the
categories and interpretative models he would adopt in his economic and sociological
inquiries. The paper illustrates some aspects of this challenging confrontation,
namely: the analysis of the methodology and interpretative power of the
socialist theories; the features of “modern socialism” as a “social fact”; and the
debates on the relationships between capitalism and socialism
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
From the People to the Industrialists: Saint-Simon and the Eclipse of Sovereignty
No full textIf French political culture during the Empire and the Restoration was marked by a general weakening of the people’s revolutionary centrality, it is to the critical reflections of Claude Henri de Saint-Simon in particular that we need to turn for substantial doctrinal clues as to the climate of those years. His “philosophical contemplation of the past” where society dominates as the “positive” historical subject helps, in fact, to fill in a theoretical framework in which the conceptual universe linked to the people appears to grow dim or even to run dry. More especially, an important contribution to understanding the layers of meaning assumed by the concept of the people in those years may be supplied by interpolating the levels of analysis used by the author. Saint Simon thus deconstructs the concepts of the people and of the sovereignty emerged by the revolutionary discourse in favor of a sociological category such as Industrial
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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