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Les effets de la culture sur les performances économiques et la dégradation des prairies. Le cas des Tibétains et des Mongols de la région du lac Qinghai
No full textShuhao Tan, Qin Tu, Heerink Nico, Futian Qu, Béja Jérémie. Les effets de la culture sur les performances économiques et la dégradation des prairies. Le cas des Tibétains et des Mongols de la région du lac Qinghai. In: Perspectives chinoises, n°103, 2008. pp. 39-47
Computing Shapley Values for Mean Width in 3-D
Full text linkThe Shapley value is a classical concept from game theory, which is used to evaluate the importance of a player in a cooperative setting. Assuming that players are inserted in a uniformly random order, the Shapley value of a player p is the expected increase in the value of the characteristic function when p is inserted. Cabello and Chan (SoCG 2019) recently showed how to adapt this to a geometric context on planar point sets. For example, when the characteristic function is the area of the convex hull, the Shapley value of a point is the average amount by which the convex-hull area increases when this point is added to the set. Shapley values can be viewed as an indication of the relative importance/impact of a point on the function of interest.
In this paper, we present an efficient algorithm for computing Shapley values in 3-dimensional space, where the function of interest is the mean width of the point set. Our algorithm runs in O(n³log²n) time and O(n) space. This result can be generalized to any point set in d-dimensional space (d ≥ 3) to compute the Shapley values for the mean volume of the convex hull projected onto a uniformly random (d - 2)-subspace in O(n^d log²n) time and O(n) space. These results are based on a new data structure for a dynamic variant of the convolution problem, which is of independent interest. Our data structure supports incremental modifications to n-element vectors (including cyclical rotation by one position). We show that n operations can be executed in O(n log²n) time and O(n) space
Religiosity as a determinant of happiness
Full text linkWe find a U-shaped relation between happiness and religiosity in cross-country panel data after controlling for income levels. At a given level of income, the same level of happiness can be reached with high and low levels of religiosity, but not with intermediate levels. A rise in income causes an increase in happiness along with a decline of religiosity. Our interpretation of the empirical results is that the indifference curves for religiosity and other commodities of the utility function are hump-shaped. --Happiness,religiosity,utility function,long-run 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
Impacts of Cultivated Land Conversion on Environmental Sustainability and Grain Self-sufficiency in China
No full textUsing provincial data, the present paper examines the impact of cultivated land conversion on agriculture and the environment. It is found that the grain production center is gradually moving towards more fragile and water scarce areas, putting more pressure on the environment. Land conversion caused large losses in ecosystem service values in the 1990s, but large scale ecological restoration programs have been implemented since 2000 to compensate for such losses. The ecological restoration programs are concentrated in regions with relatively low land productivity, whereas cultivated land conversion usually takes place in areas with relatively high land productivity. Newly-cultivated land, especially that in areas marginally suit for agricultural production, is likely to have much lower productivity levels than the original cultivated land. Because the stock of potentially cultivable land is almost exhausted, China's grain self-sufficiency policy can only be maintained by preserving the available stock of arable land and increasing its productivity in a sustainable way. Copyright (c) 2008 The Author.
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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