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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
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
Get PDFBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
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
Letter from R. R. Zellick, Assistant Trust Officer, Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco, to Joseph R. Goodman, October 2, 1942
No full textLetter from R. R. Zellick, Assistant Trust Officer at The Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco, to Joseph R. Goodman, regarding property owned by Dave Tatsuno. Zellick mentions a dispute between current tenants and Tatsuno, and that Tatsuno has asked Goodman to help locate trustworthy tenants.Personal correspondence, organizational records, government documents, publications, and other papers created or collected by Joseph R. Goodman documenting the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, as well as organized resistance to incarceration. Included in the collection are records of the Japanese Young Men's Christian Association and the Japanese American Citizens' League in San Francisco, including papers of the Japanese YMCA's executive secretary Lincoln Kanai; Sakai family papers; Goodman's correspondence to and from Japanese American incarcerees, organizations opposing forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, the War Relocation Authority, and others; publications, photographs, and ephemera from the Topaz Relocation Center, where Goodman taught high school; War Relocation Authority records and publications; and newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and reports about forced removal and incarceration created by various government, religious, and civic organizations, in California and nationwide
Constraints, opportunities and challenges in gender mainstreaming in education planning. Case of Education and Culture Regional Office of Bangka Belitung Archipelago Province, Indonesia
Get PDFGender mainstreaming has been promoted by international organizations as the strategy to achieve gender equality as well as to promote gender empowerment. Gender equality is addressed in the Millennium Development Goals, as well as the call to empower women, to improve maternal health and to achieve universal primary education. The focus of gender mainstreaming is mostly on women since women are likely to be subordinated in social constructions and are prone to be in the worst off layer of the poor. Gender mainstreaming also means to promote participation and accountability in good governance by exercising gender analysis in development planning and implementation. Education is one of the sectors that is considered strategic to promote gender equality, because it is likely to change social status as well as the existing values within society. In Bangka Belitung Archipelago, Indonesia, the education attainment of women as well as their economic attainment is statistically low, and this province had been in the lowest index of gender related development index in Indonesia in 2002. The provincial government has started the effort to improve the low quality of the life of women by establishing Gender Focal Points (GFPs) in its working units, and building the capacity of government officers to perform gender mainstreaming by conducting gender trainings and socializations. The research focuses on the constraints, opportunities and challenges of applying gender mainstreaming in the Education and Culture Regional Office (ECO) of Bangka Belitung Archipelago (BBA), by employing a qualitative case study. The data are primary and secondary which were collected through a desk study, in-depth interviews, questionnaires and participatory observation in ECO of BBA in August _ September 2007. The data was collected by interviewing 30 respondents with a questionnaire, and 12 in-depth interviews. The respondents were purposively selected. The in-depth interviews were conducted to cross check the data collected by the questionnaires, and the documents on the policies are studied using content analysis to weight gender issues addressed in them. The aspects studied in this research are the organization, the structure, and the objectives of ECO, the perspective and the capacity of the personnel working in ECO, by assessing the inspiration, commitment, guidance and control within the organization, and the planning system in ECO that consists of collection and analysis, decision making, and application and evaluation, which is not sterile from an external environment. The study concludes that a) the tasks conducted within ECO are gender neutral; b) there is lack of capacity in conducting gender mainstreaming in ECO, and the personnel working in ECO are of the opinion that gender inequity hardly exists in ECO as well as in the society; and c) gender mainstreaming is poorly performed in the planning process in ECO. This is not merely the result of the internal factors within ECO, but also because of the external environment influencing the planning process in the Provincial Government of BBA. The research also maps the constraints, the opportunities and the challenges to employ gender mainstreaming in ECO BBA, as well as recommends provincial government to a) use the compulsory training to build the capacity of the officers; b) conduct gender training continuously; c)create an enabling environment so that the Gender Focal Point is involved in the whole planning process; and d) provide necessary authority to the Gender Focal Point to employ stick and carrot mechanisms to ensure that gender mainstreaming is conducted in the planning of development programs
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
Liftings for noncomplete probability spaces
No full textThe current state of knowledge concerning liftings for noncomplete probability spaces is discussed. This is a somewhat expanded version of the author's talk given at the 1991 Summer Conference on General Topology and Applications in Honor of Mary Ellen Rudin and Her Work.PT: S; CR: BURKE MR, IN PRESS P AM MATH S BURKE MR, 1991, ISRAEL J MATH, V73, P33 BURKE MR, 1992, ISRAEL J MATH, V79, P289 CARLSON T, THEOREM LIFTING CHRISTENSEN JPR, 1974, TOPOLOGY BOREL STRUC FREMLIN DH, 1989, HDB BOOLEAN ALGEBRAS, P877 INOESCUTULCEA A, 1966, 5TH P BERK S MATH ST, V2 IONESCUTULCEA A, 1967, CONTRIBUTIONS PROB 1, P63 IONESCUTULCEA A, 1969, TOPICS THEORY LIFTIN JECH TJ, 1978, SET THEORY JOHNSON RA, 1980, P AM MATH SOC, V80, P234 JUST W, IN PRESS T AM MATH S KUPKA J, 1983, INDIANA U MATH J, V32, P717 LOSERT V, 1983, LNM, V1080, P95 MAHARAM D, 1958, P AM MATH SOC, V9, P987 SHELAH S, 1983, ISRAEL J MATH, V45, P90 TALAGRAND M, 1982, P AM MATH SOC, V84, P379 VONNEUMANN J, 1931, CRELLES J MATH, V165, P109; NR: 18; TC: 0; J9: ANN N Y ACAD SCI; PG: 4; GA: BZ86BSource type: Electronic(1
Hansen, Lee (Lee R.). Union, non-union, and managerial pay plan state employees, 2008-2019
No full text1 online resource (2 pages)"July 1, 2021."Provides the number of union and non-union state employees in each of the last 14 years. Also provides the number of state employees paid under the state's managerial pay plan during each of those years. Updates OLR research report 2019-R-011
INSULARITAS DAN KETERBELAKANGAN EKONOMI WILAYAH MENUJU MODEL KONSEPTUAL PERKEMBANGAN WILAYAH PULAU KECIL DI INDONESIA
No full textABSTRAK Insularitas dan keterbelakangan ekonomi wilayah merupakan dua fenomena yang hampir selalu hadir berdampingan di berbagai belahan dunia, dengan menyisakan sedikit perkecualian. Optimisme yang berlebihan untuk pembangunan wilayah berbasis sumberdaya kelautan dalam konteks Indonesia pada scat krisis telah tumbuh di kalangan akademisi, praktisi maupun pengamat di bidang kelautan. Bahkan dalam era otonomi daerah, sebagian sumberdaya lout telah mengalami salah urus atau pemanfaatan berlebih alas nama otonomi dan peningkatan pendapatan daerah. Penelitian ini bertujuan memberikan gambaran teoretik tentang hubungan antara insularitas dan pembangunan. Hubungan antara insularitas dan keterbelakangan wilayah akan disajikan dalam suatu model konseptual berdasarkan kajian tentang kondisi empirik yang diperoleh dari studi-studi terkait baik yang diperoleh dari dalam maupun luar negeri. Metode yang dipergunakan dalam analisis ini meliputi penelusuran dan penelaahan literatur dan sumber-sumber lain yang relevan serta tersedia on-line dalam berbagai slims di Internet. Literatur yang dikaji meliputi publikasi berbentuk buku, laporan penelitian, dan jurnal baik yang tersedia dalam bentuk cetakan maupun yang tersedia on-line. Wilayah pulau-pulau kecil mengalami keterbelakangan ekonomi karena takdir kondisi fisik wilayah yang tidak memungkinkan bekerjanya elemen-elemen sosial, politik dan demografi serta keruangan secara sinergis dalam pembangunan. Setiap elemen wilayah bahkan cenderung bekerja saling negasi terhadap elemen lainnya, sehingga dalam upaya pengembangan wilayah pulau-pulau kecil banyak sekali dilema dan paradoks yang tidak mudah dicari komprominya. Model yang dibangun pada bagian akhir penelitian ini dilandasi suatu asumsi determinisme lingkungan yang berlaku di wilayah pulau-pulau kecil. Faktor fisik wilayah merupakan kendala terbesar yang menurunkan berbagai masalah pembangunan di wilayah pulau kecil. Model yang dibuat berusaha menunjukkan keterkaitan antarelemen tersebut secara langsung maupun tidak langsung dalam menentukan terjadinya keterbelakangan ekonomi wilayah pulau-pulau kecil. Dari model ini dapat diperoleh pelajaran bahwa pembangunan wilayah pulau-pulau kecil hendaknya menempatkan keberlanjutan kehidupan wilayah dan integritas ekologis sebagai tujuan terpenting. Orientasi pertumbuhan ekonomi dalam pembangunan tampaknya harus ditempatkan pada prioritas yang rendah
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