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G20 2014: perspectives from business, civil society, labour, think tanks and youth
Full text linkThis paper brings together policy contributions from a wide cross-section of society interested in feeding into the G20 process.
Summary
G20 engagement partners from Business (B20), Civil Society (C20), Labour (L20), Think Tanks (T20) and Youth (Y20) have each provided a contribution for this issue of the Monitor. Each address how the groups are organising their contribution to the G20 process in 2014, their priorities for the G20, and thoughts on what would constitute ‘success’ in terms of possible outcomes from the Brisbane Summit. The Australian G20 Sherpa, Heather Smith, has provided an opening comment.
Key points
One characteristic that all engagement partners share is their recognition of the importance of strengthening the G20.
Through their engagement with the G20 presidency, the G20 engagement partners have an important role to play in communicating the G20’s work to the wider public for greater understanding.
The engagement partners can use their networks to help convey what the G20 is doing, and why the involvement of the non-government sector is important
Entrevista a Sharan Burrow : 27 de enero de 2021
Full text linkSharan Burrow es la Secretaria General de la Confederación Sindical Internacional (ITUC) y anterior Presidenta del Consejo australiano de Sindicatos (ACTU) (2000–2010). Es la primera mujer en convertirse Secretaria General del ITUC desde su fundación en 2006, y fue la segunda mujer en convertirse en Presidenta del ACTU. Se graduó como licenciada de la Universidad de Nueva Gales del Sur (Australia). Antes de convertirse en Presidenta del ACTU fue también Presidenta de la Unión de Educación australiana (AEU) en 1992. Burrow integra el Consejo de Supervisión de la Fundación Europea para el Clima y es co-presidenta honoraria del Proyecto de Justicia mundial.Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociale
Entrevista a Sharan Burrow: 27 de enero de 2021
Full text linkSharan Burrow es la Secretaria General de la Confederación Sindical Internacional (ITUC) y anterior Presidenta del Consejo australiano de Sindicatos (ACTU) (2000–2010). Es la primera mujer en convertirse Secretaria General del ITUC desde su fundación en 2006, y fue la segunda mujer en convertirse en Presidenta del ACTU. Se graduó como licenciada de la Universidad de Nueva Gales del Sur (Australia). Antes de convertirse en Presidenta del ACTU fue también Presidenta de la Unión de Educación australiana (AEU) en 1992. Burrow integra el Consejo de Supervisión de la Fundación Europea para el Clima y es co-presidenta honoraria del Proyecto de Justicia mundial
The global economic crisis and international migration: An uncertain outlook
Full text linkThis article investigates the impact of the global economic crisis on international migration. Empirical evidence is scarce and mainly captures short-term consequences. The study covers (1) international migration theory, (2) the impact of past financial crises on international migration, and (3) published expert opinions, studies and discussions. The impact varies by reason for migration and by migrants’ employment status. Labour migration is affected most, in particular migration of low-skilled persons. Political and environmental refugees, marriage migration and family reunion will not be much affected. Remittances are affected less than predicted. The management of migration during periods of economic downturns should be guided by short- and long-term perspectives on the role of migration in development.
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
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