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[Portrait of Romeo M. Williams]
No full textPhotograph of Romeo M. Williams, who is sitting, wearing a dark-colored suit, and visible from the chest up
Agriculture-based development
Full text linkAs in most low-income countries, the majority of the poor population in Viet Nam is found in rural areas, where agriculture provides the primary means of livelihood. It has been argued that an agriculture-based development (ABD) strategy is more appropriate for Viet Nam at the present time than both import-substitution and export-led industrialization, considering its effectiveness in generating income opportunities, directly and indirectly, for the rural population. Under the ABD strategy, increased public resources allocated to agriculture and the rural sector would lead to rising agricultural productivity and rural income that in turn would create a strong demand for increased nonagricultural production in the local economy, especially of labor-intensive industrial goods and services. It is in effect a decentralized, employment-generating industrialization strategy that can lead to favorable outcomes in overall income growth and distribution. The Central Region in Viet Nam is the least developed among the three macro-regions, the rapid economic expansion during the 1990s having been concentrated in the southern and northern areas. Because Central Viet Nam is even more heavily agricultural than the rest of the country, the argument for adopting an ABD strategy would seem to apply with greater force. In this paper we make use of SAM (social accounting matrix)multiplier analysis in examining quantitatively the comparative economy-wide repercussions of exogenous income increases in agriculture (such as that arising from productivity growth) in Central Viet Nam, paying particular attention to the effects on overall income growth and equity. The equity impact is evaluated in terms of the induced relative changes on the incomes of four households groups distinguished in the study. Some policy implications of the results are discussed, emphasizing the role of macroeconomic policies in helping promote equitable growth in Central Viet Nam.Industrialization Viet Nam. ,Macroeconomics Viet Nam. ,Income Viet Nam. ,Rural population. ,Production economics ,TMD ,
Marriage record of Gonzalez, Romeo M. and Ryals, Edith Annie
No full textMarriage license for Romeo M. Gonzalez and Edith Annie Ryals. J.F. Sherouse was the officiant
L'integrazione dell'interesse ambientale nel sistema dei trasporti
Full text linkLa relazione tra la tutela dell'ambiente e il sistema dei trasporti di persone e di merci assume un ruolo rilevante per due ragioni: da un lato, i trasporti costituiscono un pilastro fondamentale per l'economia e, dall'altro lato, essi rappresentano il secondo settore che maggiormente impatta sull'ambiente, dopo quello dell'energia; l'inquinamento atmosferico, delle acque e del suolo, nonché il consumo di quest'ultimo, il rumore e la congestione sono soltanto alcune delle esternalità negative che il sistema dei trasporti produce.
In seguito alla progressiva attenzione per la protezione dell'ambiente, la sua integrazione con la politica dei trasporti ha portato a due considerevoli novità.
Innanzitutto, le modalità di trasporto tradizionali hanno subito delle trasformazioni in termini di maggiore sostenibilità: sono state promosse forme di mobilità meno inquinanti e definite nuove politiche per rendere i veicoli più puliti. I soggetti competenti in materia hanno adottato diversi strumenti di governo per rendere più sostenibili i trasporti tradizionali, tra cui la pianificazione, gli strumenti finanziari, la fiscalità ambientale, il criterio ambientale nelle procedure di gara e gli aiuti di Stato. Dall'altro lato, la manifestazione dell'ambiente nel sistema dei trasporti ha portato alla nascita di nuove forme di mobilità, ossia la sharing mobility, la quale assume una rilevanza particolare principalmente nelle aree urbane; è in questo in questi contesti, infatti, che le emissioni inquinanti dei trasporti sono più considerevoli.
Un'analisi comparata di diverse politiche relative alla mobilità urbana in tre grandi città europee mette in evidenza se le due novità derivanti dall'integrazione dell'ambiente con il sistema di trasporti siano state utili per raggiungere gli obiettivi di tutela ambientale e di minore inquinamento
A microstretch description of electroelastic solids with application to plane waves
No full textA continuum microstretch model is introduced for electroelastic media on the basis of a biaxial stretch deformation including microrotation. Strain measures, microinertia and electric multipoles are expressed in terms of angle and axis of microrotation and a couple of stretch variables. The linearization of balance laws allows us to state a differential system for seven field variables, as occurs in the simpler micropolar case. This approach is applied to the propagation of plane monochromatic waves adopting two geometric configurations, where an applied electric field is orthogonal to the wavenumber vector. The dispersion equations are obtained in both cases. In addition to the classical purely longitudinal or transverse waves, a set of coupled microstructural modes is found, which show the dependence on the microinertia, electric quadrupole and the orientational angle of the axis of microrotation. A numerical example is shown to discuss wave properties and their occurrence on finite or unbounded wavenumber ranges
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
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