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Budget 2016: winners and losers
No full textWhat are key takeaways from the Turnbull Government\u27s 2016 federal budget?
As expected, it\u27s all about the Prime Minister\u27s main message: jobs and growth. Small business has cleaned up, while wealthy Australians have lost lucrative superannuation tax breaks.
To break it down, Fran Kelly is joined by RN Breakfast\u27s Political Editor, Alison Carabine and Business Editor, Sheryle Bagwell
New report indicates falling wages growth will lower living standards
No full textFrom the early 1990s till the end of the mining boom in 2010, Australia had a dream run of economic prosperity.
Inflation was low, unemployment remained below six per cent, and the economy kept out of recession, even during the Global Financial Crisis.
It was a rising tide that lifted all boats - including the incomes of most workers.
But over the past couple of years, that wages tide has gone out, with major implications for living standards and the Federal Budget.
That\u27s the conclusion of a new report out this morning from the progressive think tank Per Capita.
Guests
David Hetherington
Executive Director of Per Capita
Credits
Producer
Sheryle Bagwell, Business Edito
Is it time for an Anzac dollar?
No full textThe idea of a currency union with New Zealand is a perennial talking point, and with the kiwi dollar drawing close to parity with the Australian dollar it might seem like there’s never been a better time. However, as Sheryle Bagwell discovers, there’s not much appetite for an Anzac dollar across the Tasman.
The NZ dollar has been flirting with parity with the Australian currency for weeks, and experts say it will probably get there if the RBA cuts interest rates in May. It\u27s also fired up a long running debate—if you can swap one Australian dollar for a kiwi dollar, why not go the whole hog and forge a trans-Tasman currency union?
Former NZ Prime Minister Helen Clarke once said that a currency union was ‘inevitable’. That was 16 years ago, though, so what’s the hold up?
‘I don\u27t think there\u27s any appetite in New Zealand at the moment to go into a currency union with Australia,’ says Oliver Hartwich, executive director of The New Zealand Initiative, the country’s peak business lobby group
Business community responds with 'great disappointment' to election result
No full textThe Prime Minister says he remains \u27quietly confident\u27 the Coalition will be able to form a majority government in the Lower House. But even if it does, it will be wafer thin, with a minority government still the more likely option—and with no control of the Senate.
In other words, the worst possible outcome for the business sector, which had been hoping the next Parliament would tackle some big economic reforms
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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