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Environmental impacts of energy indicators on ecological footprints of oil-exporting African countries: Perspectives on fossil resources abundance amidst sustainable development quests
Get PDFRESOURCES POLICYIn the wake of the ongoing debate on global energy dynamics and environmental concerns, the calls for collective action for environmental protection have intensified even as the quest for sustainable economic growth continues to shape the decisions of policymakers and authorities among nations. As such, this study examines the environmental impacts of energy indicators on the ecological footprint of mainly oil-exporting African economies from the perspective of the interaction between fossil energy resource rents and its consumption, while controlling for the roles of urbanization and globalization among the countries for the period between 1990 and 2016. The adopted Augmented Mean Group (AMG) estimator produced very insightful information in the study and offers the additional advantage of exploring country-specific outcomes in the empirical analyses that were subsequently corroborated by the Dynamic Ordinary Least Square (DOLS) and Fully Modified Ordinary Least Square (FMOLS) approaches. Firstly, fossil energy resource rents and their consumption significantly contribute to environmental deterioration through rising ecological footprint among the countries. Secondly, economic growth and globalization also aggravate the pressure exerted on the environment alongside the observed undesirable environmental impacts of rapid urbanization among the countries. Thirdly, the inverted U-shape income-footprint relationship depicting the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis was rejected for the panel of all countries, while minimal evidence of its validity was only upheld for Egypt and Nigeria on a countryspecific basis, thereby reflecting the roles of individual country's specific differences. Hence, strategic energy transition plans, economic diversification policies, green technology investments, and improved environmental regulations were recommended as necessary ingredients for policy directions toward achieving environmental sustainability alongside relevant development goals (SDGs-8, 11, & 13) in the understudied economies
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
Energy innovations and pathway to carbon neutrality in Finland
Get PDFSUSTAINABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES AND ASSESSMENTSGiven the determination to maintain the status of a low-carbon energy and clean energy technology country, Finland has remained committed to facing out coal energy and subsequently halve the domestic utilization of fossil oil all by 2030. To assess these laudable national targets, this study applies a two-scenario approach to examine the environmental effects of Finland's disaggregated energy mix for the period between 1974 and 2019. The first scenario of analysis focuses on the environmental effect of the disaggregated energy mix with environmental technologies, while the second scenario explores the case of without environmental technologies. The application of the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) technique for the analysis revealed some insightful results. Firstly, the deployment of environmental technologies in coal energy development will yet exert a significant environmental cost. Secondly, with innovations in the development of oil, natural gas, and nuclear energy sources, a statistically significant environmental benefit is attainable. Thirdly, without the deployment of environmental technologies, the utilization of the disaggregated energy forms (coal, natural gas, nuclear, and oil) will continue to constitute an environmental nuisance. Furthermore, the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis is only valid for Finland when the environmental technologies deployed in the country's disaggregated energy utilization are considered. Lastly, the independent deployment of environmental technologies mitigates carbon emission with an elasticity of 0.1 in the long run. Intuitively, the result suggests that energy and climate financing policy that promotes innovation via research and development is vital to achieving the decade-long target
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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