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Critical analysis of valuation report elements in the Republic of Slovenia
No full textThe purpose of this thesis is to present the legal regulations in the field of real estate appraisers work in the Republic of Slovenia and afterwards analyze a sample of publicly available valuation reports based on my own evaluation form, in order to determine their suitability and to carry out comparison between obtained results and the results of the analysis already presented. At first are presented legal regulations allready in use, specially the International Valuation Standards and Slovenian corporate finance standards. The main part of the thesis presents the analysis of the 55 valuation reports, which were downloaded from the internet and produced in Slovenia for different purposes. Analysis of the valuation reports was implemented with the use of designed form, which adressed the essential elements of the report. Followed by quantitative and qualitative analysis of the valuation reports. In conclusion a comparison of the obtained results and the results of the analysis of the Court of Auditors of the Republic of Slovenia, published in the 2014 Revision report and the 2014 Post-revision report, was carried out. Based on the analyzed data, we concluded that 72% of the valuation reports do not explain individual adjustment factors and other key factors that significantly affect the estimated value
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
Pragmatic Case Studies as a Source of Unity in Applied Psychology
No full textTo unify or not to unify applied psychology: that is the question. In this article we review pendulum swings in the historical efforts to answer this question—from a comprehensive, positivist, “top-down,” deductive yes between the 1930s and the early 60s, to a postmodern no since then. A rationale and proposal for a limited, “bottom-up,” inductive yes in applied psychology is then presented, employing a case-based paradigm that integrates both positivist and postmodern themes and components. This paradigm is labeled “pragmatic psychology” and, its specific use of case studies, the “Pragmatic Case Study Method” (“PCS Method”). We call for the creation of peer-reviewed journal-databases of pragmatic case studies as a foundational source of unifying applied knowledge in our discipline. As one example, the potential of the PCS Method for unifying different angles of theoretical regard is illustrated in an area of applied psychology, psychotherapy, via the case of Mrs. B. The article then turns to the broader historical and epistemological arguments for the unifying nature of the PCS Method in both applied and basic psychology.Peer reviewe
Housing Equity Withdrawal in the Portfolio Choice for Financing the Long-Term Care Facilities
No full textAcross the European Union, currently, 40 million older people are dependent on the help from others (EC, 2015a). This number will rise to 55 million until 2060. More than 4 million of dependent old people live in segregated residential institutions which cannot ensure person-centered services to bring about full inclusion of seniors to the community. This number will more than double till 2060 even in the case that we shall develop more proper facilities. Human dignity and the respect for human rights guide the European Member States to implement adequate reforms of long-term care systems (LTC). Following the provisions of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the European Convention on Human Rights (EC, 2017), we should implement measures reinforcing the transition from institutional to community-based services. The process is named Deinstitutionalisation. It requires to build new facilities for seniors and to remodel their homes adapting for the persons with declining functional capacities. We have to develop sufficient number of the following care facilities: (a) Independent Living Communities, (b) Assisted Living Facilities, (c) Residential Care Facilities, (d) Continuing Care Communities and (e) Nursing Homes, to provide required assistance and care for persons who are dependent on help of others and their functional capacities are declining. For the different level of functional capacity of seniors, different facilities are needed. We have calculated how much it will cost and what would be the possible financial sources to cover these expenses, on the basis of the National Health Institute database. In our study, we developed the model of adaptation of different facilities to the functional decline and wishes of seniors and calculated the needed monthly premiums which are payable for 40 years, from age 25 to 64 to cover expenditures for the long-term social care in a properly built environment. We have combined these financial sources with potential Housing Equity Withdrawal (HEW) from homes of seniors who are owners of their home. Therefore, in this article Equity Release Schemes have been studied in the context of the Long-term Care Insurance and behaviour of the urban land rent. We have compared the insurance schemes based on HEW and insurance schemes with monthly premiums from their gross salary. ERS could transform fixed assets in owner’s occupied dwellings into liquid assets for LTC including proper facilities. We have shown how the interest rate variation, which can reduce the income of older persons even below the targeted quality of LTC, has a significantly smaller impact on welfare of the elderly if these sources, which depend on a volatile interest rate and which have a positive covariance with the interest rate, are combined with the ERS loan model based on the old persons previous housing or home in the community villages, adapted for seniors, where the correlation coefficient is negative. Because of the volatility of the interest rate the proper combination of annuities paid from their gross salary and dynamics of ERS drawings from senior’s housing units has to be planned to decrease the volatility of combined cash flows deriving from both pillars. Therefore, it is wise making a trade-off between these two schemes. The calculation based on the data of average value of a home owned by seniors and the costs of LTC consisting of the average costs of care in each of four categories of LTC, where the facilities are adapting to these categories are giving the optimal portfolio for LTC in proper built environment in Slovenia. The numerical example is based on the German Mortality Tables DAV1994R, as required by Slovenian Agency for Insurance Supervision
Code for estimation of remaining carbon budget in IPCC AR6 WGI
No full textThis repository contains data and code to reproduce the remaining carbon budget estimates included in the Working Group I (WGI) Contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
This code should be cited as: Lamboll & Rogelj (2022). Code for estimation of remaining carbon budget in IPCC AR6 WGI. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6373278
The code reproduces the values underlying Table 5.8 in Chapter 5 (Canadell et al, 2021), Table TS.3 in the Technical Summary (Arias et al, 2021) and Table SPM.2 of the Summary for Policymakers (IPCC, 2021) of the IPCC AR6 WGI report. Note that values reported in the report are rounded to the nearest 10 PgC or 50 GtCO2.
Arias, P.A., Bellouin, N., Coppola, E., Jones, R.G., Krinner, G., Marotzke, J., Naik, V., Palmer, M.D., Plattner, G.-K., Rogelj, J., Rojas, M., Sillmann, J., Storelvmo, T., Thorne, P.W., Trewin, B., Achuta Rao, K., Adhikary, B., Allan, R.P., Armour, K., Bala, G., Barimalala, R., Berger, S., Canadell, J.G., Cassou, C., Cherchi, A., Collins, W., Collins, W.D., Connors, S.L., Corti, S., Cruz, F., Dentener, F.J., Dereczynski, C., Di Luca, A., Diongue Niang, A., Doblas-Reyes, F.J., Dosio, A., Douville, H., Engelbrecht, F., Eyring, V., Fischer, E., Forster, P., Fox-Kemper, B., Fuglestvedt, J.S., Fyfe, J.C., Gillett, N.P., Goldfarb, L., Gorodetskaya, I., Gutierrez, J.M., Hamdi, R., Hawkins, E., Hewitt, H.T., Hope, P., Islam, A.S., Jones, C., Kaufman, D.S., Kopp, R.E., Kosaka, Y., Kossin, J., Krakovska, S., Lee, J.-Y., Li, J., Mauritsen, T., Maycock, T.K., Meinshausen, M., Min, S.-K., Monteiro, P.M.S., Ngo-Duc, T., Otto, F., Pinto, I., Pirani, A., Raghavan, K., Ranasinghe, R., Ruane, A.C., Ruiz, L., Sallée, J.-B., Samset, B.H., Sathyendranath, S., Seneviratne, S.I., Sörensson, A.A., Szopa, S., Takayabu, I., Treguier, A.-M., van den Hurk, B., Vautard, R., von Schuckmann, K., Zaehle, S., Zhang, X., Zickfeld, K., 2021. Technical Summary, in: Masson-Delmotte, V., Zhai, P., Pirani, A., Connors, S.L., Péan, C., Berger, S., Caud, N., Chen, Y., Goldfarb, L., Gomis, M.I., Huang, M., Leitzell, K., Lonnoy, E., Matthews, J.B.R., Maycock, T.K., Waterfield, T., Yelekçi, O., Yu, R., Zhou, B. (Eds.), Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press.
Canadell, J.G., Monteiro, P.M.S., Costa, M.H., Cotrim da Cunha, L., Cox, P.M., Eliseev, A.V., Henson, S., Ishii, M., Jaccard, S., Koven, C., Lohila, A., Patra, P.K., Piao, S., Rogelj, J., Syampungani, S., Zaehle, S., Zickfeld, K., 2021. Global Carbon and other Biogeochemical Cycles and Feedbacks, in: Masson-Delmotte, V., Zhai, P., Pirani, A., Connors, S.L., Péan, C., Berger, S., Caud, N., Chen, Y., Goldfarb, L., Gomis, M.I., Huang, M., Leitzell, K., Lonnoy, E., Matthews, J.B.R., Maycock, T.K., Waterfield, T., Yelekçi, O., Yu, R., Zhou, B. (Eds.), Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press.
IPCC, 2021. Summary for Policymakers. In: Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
When re-using the data of global warming induced by non-CO2 species, please reference Cross-Chapter Box 7.1 (Nicholls et al, 2021).
Nicholls, Z., Meinshausen, M., Forster, P., Armour, K., Berntsen, T., Collins, W., Jones, C., Lewis, J., Marotzke, J., Milinski, S., Rogelj, J., Smith, C., 2021. Cross-Chapter Box 7.1: Physical emulation of Earth System Models for scenario classification and knowledge integration in AR6, in: Masson-Delmotte, V., Zhai, P., Pirani, A., Connors, S.L., Péan, C., Berger, S., Caud, N., Chen, Y., Goldfarb, L., Gomis, M.I., Huang, M., Leitzell, K., Lonnoy, E., Matthews, J.B.R., Maycock, T.K., Waterfield, T., Yelekçi, O., Yu, R., Zhou, B. (Eds.), Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press
Dr. Edwin Wright Collection: Author Unknown
No full textNotes - The author relates several short stories about his neighbours including Alex McDonell, homesteading and life around Meanook and Athabasca (1 page
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe 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
Measurement of the ratio of branching fractions B(B0→K∗0γ )/B(B0s→φγ ) and the directCP asymmetry inB 0→K∗0γ
No full textThe ratio of branching fractions of the radiative B decays B0→K⁎0γ and B0s→ϕγ has been measured using an integrated luminosity of 1.0 fb−1 of pp collision data collected by the LHCb experiment at a centre-of-mass energy of s√=7TeV. The value obtained is
B(B0→K⁎0γ)B(B0s→ϕγ)=1.23±0.06(stat.)±0.04(syst.)±0.10(fs/fd),
where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second is the experimental systematic uncertainty and the third is associated with the ratio of fragmentation fractions fs/fd. Using the world average value for B(B0→K⁎0γ), the branching fraction B(B0s→ϕγ) is measured to be (3.5±0.4)×10−5.
The direct CP asymmetry in B0→K⁎0γ decays has also been measured with the same data and found to be
ACP(B0→K⁎0γ)=(0.8±1.7(stat.)±0.9(syst.))%.
Both measurements are the most precise to date and are in agreement with the previous experimental results and theoretical expectations
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