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Natural wine as an expression of sustainability: an exploratory analysis of Italy’s restaurant industry
Get PDFPurpose – Although not yet fully defined, natural wine represents a sector that has gained the widespread attention of final consumers and, therefore, also of the restaurant world, because of its promise of sustainability. The objective of this paper is to understand Italian haute cuisine’s interest in natural wine, with the aim of analysing what qualifies this product as sustainable.
Design/methodology/approach – After introducing a theoretical framework based on the concept of
natural wine, a brief paragraph is dedicated to consumer preferences; subsequently, the analysis focusses on a questionnaire given to restaurateurs to determine the impact that natural wine has had in the Italian context. The results try to identify the importance that restaurateurs give to the characteristics of natural wine and their propensity for using such wine in their own businesses.
Findings – The analysis, conducted on a sample of medium-high range restaurants, highlights their strong interest in natural wine, as a result of the final consumers’ attitude towards wine with characteristics attributable to sustainability. The positive perception by restaurateurs is similar across Italy, both geographically and in terms of the size of the restaurant.
Originality/value – The originality of the work is the focus on the world of restaurants. To date, the literature on natural wine remains embryonic and always refers to the final consumer. This research is the first step in a broader study that will involve a greater number of restaurants, extending beyond Italy to all of Europe, with the aim of understanding the real development potential of natural win
La sostenibilità nella vitivinicoltura italiana: un approfondimento sul vino naturale.
Get PDFIl settore della vitivinicoltura, come il comparto agroalimentare nel suo complesso, ha vissuto negli ultimi decenni un’evoluzione sostanziale dettata dall’insorgere di nuove esigenze manifestate dai
consumatori e dalla volontà dei produttori di garantire un’offerta sostenibile e rispettosa nei confronti dell’ecosistema. L’attuale panorama del mercato del vino è caratterizzato da un’ampia categoria di vini sostenibili (biologici, biodinamici, vegani, naturali) ciascuna delle quali con caratteri distintivi propri. Un mercato vinicolo dinamico e variegato, come quello attuale, necessita di adeguati strumenti di analisi per poter rispondere tempestivamente alle esigenze di una domanda quanto mai selettiva ed informata. Alla luce di queste considerazioni, il paper considera un segmento particolare di domanda, l’alta ristorazione, comparto che ricopre un ruolo fondamentale nel consumo di vino. Nello specifico verrà analizzato il consumo di una particolare categoria di vino sostenibile, quello cosiddetto naturale. La ricerca tenta di formulare previsioni e proporre un’interpretazione originale relativa alle possibili evoluzioni del mercato dei vini naturali in un contesto di scelte di produzione sostenibili.The winemaking sector, like the agri-food sector as a whole, has experienced a substantial evolution in recent decades dictated by the emergence of new needs expressed by consumers and the will
of producers to guarantee a sustainable and respectful offer towards the ecosystem. The current panorama of the wine market is characterized by a wide category of sustainable wines (organic,
biodynamic, vegan, natural) each of which with its own distinctive characteristics. A dynamic and varied wine market, like the current one, requires adequate analysis tools to be able to respond
promptly to the needs of a highly selective and informed demand. In light of these considerations, the paper considers a particular segment of demand, haute cuisine, a sector that plays a fundamental role in the consumption of wine. Specifically, the consumption of a particular category of sustainable wine, the socalled natural one, will be analyzed. The research attempts to formulate forecasts and propose an original interpretation relating to the possible evolutions of the natural wine market in a context of sustainable production choices
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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