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Ireland
Full text linkThis report is part of the project The Factbook on the Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products.It focuses on Ireland, where the illicit trade in tobacco products has been an important concern since 2007–2008. According to unofficial estimates, 29.7% of total tobacco consumption was illicit in 2012, when Ireland ranked 3rd (after Latvia and Lithuania) among 22 European countries for illicit tobacco penetration (Euromonitor International 2013a). To tackle the ITTP, the Revenue Commissioners have launched the Revenue’s Strategy on Combating the Illicit Tobacco Trade (2011–2013), the aim of which is to deter people from buying illicit trade products and to reduce their availability. Given the close geographical (shared land border), social, economic and cultural connections, the report also focuses, where appropriate, on Northern Ireland, a part of the United Kingdom
Spain
Full text linkThis report is part of the project The Factbook on the Illicit
Trade in Tobacco Products (hereafter ITTP). It focuses on
Spain, where the illicit trade in tobacco products is an
emerging issue, particularly in certain regions. After
tax increases in 2009-2010, Spain became a destination
market of illicit tobacco and the ITTP penetration peaked
at 8.8% in 2013. Nevertheless, the ITTP level is lower
than the European average. In the past, ITTP penetration
had decreased from 6% to almost 1% between 1998 and
2010, due to the successful enforcement actions against
contraband. Spain used to be a transit country
France
Full text linkThis report provides the French country profile of the
project The Factbook on the Illicit Trade in Tobacco
Products. In France, the illicit trade in tobacco products
is a key issue due to its high penetration in the French
tobacco market, reaching 14.7% of total consumption in
2014 (KPMG 2015). Tobacco control policies are at the
top of the French policy agenda, and a national action
plans against the ITTP was launched in 2011. Moreover,
the recent ratification of the Protocol Against Illicit Trade
in Tobacco Products (WHO FCTC), in November 2015,
demonstrates France’s commitment to tackling the illicit
trade. The growing attention of the French Customs to
tobacco smuggling is evidenced by the increasing number
of seizures
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Full text linkIl contributo presenta i risultati di una sperimentazione condotta nelle città di Milano, Roma e Bari sull'utilizzo di mappe previsionali della criminalità attraverso la tecnica del Risk Terrain ModelingThe report presents the results about the use of predictive mapping on burglary in three Italian cities (Milan, Rome and Bari)
Italy
Full text linkThis report is part of the project The Factbook on the Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products. It focuses on Italy, where the illicit trade in tobacco seems to have grown in recent years. This fact, combined with the geographical location of the country and the consolidated presence of organised crime, makes Italy an interesting country to explore in terms of ITTP flows in the Mediterranean basin and towards North European countries
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
Lithuania
Full text linkThis report is part of the project The Factbook on the Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products(henceforth ITTP)
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