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Indagine sull'insegnamento delle materie di scienza delle finanze (SECS-P/03). Prime valutazioni sui risultati
No full textthe paper presents the main results of a survey of the teaching of public finance and related courses in Italian Universities during the academic year 2003-04 the thiurd after the introduction of the reform of the university courses in Italy, which divided the traditional laurea in a 3 year degree and a 2 year specialization degree
Determinants of Heritage Authorities’ Performance: An exploratory study with DEA bootstrapping approach
Full text linkGovernment regulation plays a significant role in the field of heritage conservation. Namely, regulation is aimed at controlling the stock of heritage, restricting or modifying the activities of public as well as private actors. Surprisingly, the literature has neither extensively investigated the performance of the heritage authorities involved in the implementation of conservation policies nor its determinants. In this paper we address this issue, from a theoretical as well as an empirical perspective, using Sicily as a case study. More precisely, we analyze the determinants of the differences in the efficiency levels of conservation activity of the nine Sicilian heritage authorities over the period 1993-2005. Economic and managerial variables are used to distinguish non-discretionary from discretionary causes. The results show that the efficiency scores seem to be only affected by economic factors whereas the managerial variables do not affect the performance of heritage authorities.Heritage regulation, cultural policy, efficiency analysis.
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
Cultural heritage and ‘senses of place’: issues and challenges
No full textOndarearen eta «toki zentzua» kontzeptuaren arteko erlazioa ikertzen du artikuluak. «Tokiaren zentzuan» zentratzeak ondarearen kontserbazioaren eta hobekuntzaren azterketa objektutik bertatik tokian zentratutako ikuspegi batera aldatzen du, tokiko garapen ekonomiko iraunkorrerako kultur politiketan kontuan hartu beharreko gai garrantzitsu gisa. Ikuspegi horretatik, ondare materialaren eta ez-materialaren arteko bereizketa lausotu egiten da, biak baitira leku baten ezaugarri garrantzitsuak. Aldi berean, hainbat galdera sortzen dira: nola elkarreragiten duen «tokiaren zentzua» gizartearen ongizatearekin; norena den «leku zentzua»; Nola bideratu ditzake erabaki publikoak hartzeko prozesuak leku zentzuaren eraikuntzarekin lotutako gatazkei? Internetek eta sare sozialek zer eginkizun duten. Ondarearen dimentsio ekonomikoak eta leku zentzuarekin duen erlazioa aztertu ondoren, artikuluak aurreko gaiak jorratzen ditu, adibideak eskainiz eta politikaren ondorio batzuk iradokiz.The paper investigates the relationship between heritage and the concept of ‘sense of place’. Focusing attention on the ‘sense of place’ leads to a shift from the analysis of heritage conservation and valorization based on the object in itself to an approach centred on a place, as an important subject to be considered in cultural policies for sustainable local economic development. In such a perspective the distinction between tangible and intangible heritage becomes blurred, both being important characters of a place. At the same time, several questions come to the fore such as: how the ‘sense of place’ interacts with society’s wellbeing; whose ‘sense of place’ is relevant; how the public decision-making process is able to deal with the conflicts related to the construction of the ‘sense of place’; what a role the Internet and social media play. The paper after analysing the economic dimensions of heritage and its relation with the ‘sense of place’, addresses the above questions providing examples and suggesting some policy implications.El documento investiga la relación entre el patrimonio y el concepto «sentido de lugar». Centrar la atención en el «sentido de lugar» lleva a pasar del análisis de la conservación y valorización del patrimonio basado en el objeto en sí a un enfoque centrado en un lugar, como tema importante a tener en cuenta en las políticas culturales para el desarrollo económico local sostenible. Desde esta perspectiva, se difumina la distinción entre patrimonio material e inmaterial, ya que ambos son características importantes de un lugar. Al mismo tiempo, se plantean varias cuestiones: cómo interactúa el «sentido de lugar» con el bienestar de la sociedad; de quién es el «sentido de lugar»; cómo puede el proceso público de toma de decisiones abordar los conflictos relacionados con la construcción del «sentido de lugar»; qué papel desempeñan Internet y los medios sociales. Tras analizar las dimensiones económicas del patrimonio y su relación con el «sentido del lugar», el artículo aborda las cuestiones anteriores ofreciendo ejemplos y sugiriendo algunas implicaciones políticas
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
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