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Innovative finance for sustainable development of the territory
No full textThe energy from renewable sources is an issue that is closely linked to sustainable development and it is a challenge to be managed with new approaches, with an integrated public policies as well as to develop and support a new culture, boost economic growth and create new jobs in areas related to energy efficiency. Given that the way to follow is to invest in renewable energy sources in order to ensure energy and environmental sustainability, an objective of the present work is to verify the use of financial instruments to support in necessary vestments. In fact, Directive 27 asks the government for finding efficient energy solution in order to build, renovate and manage the buildings, to train citizens to the efficient use of energy and inform them of the savings opportunities linked to it
Modelling of predator-prey trophic interactions. Part I. Two trophic levels
No full textA class of lumped parameter models to describe the local dynamics in a controlled environment of a two-trophic chain
is considered. The class is characterized by a trophic function (functional response of predator to the abundance of prey)
depending on the ratio of prey biomass x and a linear function of predator biomass y: f(qx/[(1−ρ)k +ρy] ),
where q
is the efficiency of the predation process, k is a reference biomass, and ρ (0 ≤ ρ ≤ 1) specifies the predation
model. The trophic function is defined only by some properties determining its shape. A stability analysis of the models
has been performed by taking the parameters q and ρ as bifurcation parameters: the regions in the (ρ,q) plane of
existence and stability of nonnegative equilibrium states and limit cycles are determined. This analysis shows that the
behaviour of the models is qualitatively similar for 0 ≤ ρ< 1 (in particular the null state is always a saddle point),
while the value ρ = 1 gives rise to some kind of structural instability of the system (in particular the null state becomes
an attractor for sufficiently high predation efficiency)
Green economy and sociale responsability in the italian agri-food sector: the focus in the wine sector
No full textThis paper aims at investigating the reasons why the environmental variable and issues - such as sustainability, social responsibility and all those behaviours that can be attributed to the general definition of Green Economy - , are generally covering a more and more marked and growing influence on the contemporary economy and, in particular, entrepreneurial behaviour
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
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
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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