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Renewable energy sources in Italy. Sectorial intensity and effects on earnings
No full textThe literature on renewable energy sources (RES) does not provide a shared methodology to measure the
sectorial intensity of production linked to RES. Furthermore, empirical evidence on the relationship between
RES sectorial intensity and workers’ earnings is scant. The aim of this paper is to fill in these literature gaps
providing, on the one hand, an original microdata-based methodology to measure the RES sectorial intensity,
and, on the other hand, estimating, through panel data techniques, the relationship between RES sectorial
intensity and earnings for a representative sample of Italian workers in the period 2002–2009. Focusing on the
case of Italy in the first decade of the 21th century is very relevant given that in that period Italy promoted one of
the most generous renewable support schemes worldwide. The main findings are the following: i) the RES
sectorial intensity in Italy largely increased in 2008–2009; ii) on average, the RES sectorial intensity does not
affect earnings levels; iii) remarkably, a clear skill-premium effect emerges when the RES sectorial intensity
increases
Health, Well-Being and Work History Patterns: Insight on Territorial Differences
No full textThe progressive flexibility of labour relations has not always been perceived by workers
as an opportunity, but as an ever-growing sense of precariousness. This appears all the
more true in a country like Italy, where the labour market has long been characterized by
some rigidity. Health is a fundamental domain of well-being and, although the relationship
between health and job insecurity has been clearly highlighted, the correct causal effect
along with differences at the territorial level have not always been brought into focus. The
aim of this paper is to provide insights on health status differentials across Italian territories,
in relation to individual working histories. To analyze the potential causal effects of
career on self-reported health (SRH) a propensity score approach, based on the inverse
probability of treatment weighing, has been used. Available data shows great differences at
territorial level: in Northern Italy, the economic conditions seem to increase the probability
of having good health, while in the other regions of Italy key factors seem to be age, children
or the sector and size of the company where an individual works. Our findings have
also shown the presence of a causal effect on the work history patterns of SRH in northern
Italy, and not elsewhere. This may imply that in an area with high occupational levels having
only a temporary employment is perceived as the merest chance, and could generate
stress both at a physical and mental level. In other areas, high unemployment levels seem
to arouse low expectations and the only fact of having a job—even if temporary—can be
perceived as a positive aspect
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
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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
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
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
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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