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Essays in health and labor supply
No full textAuthor Flora Stiftinger, BSc MSc MScDissertation Johannes Kepler Universität Linz 202
Worker Absenteeism and the Value of Unemployment
No full textAuthor Flora StiftingerMasterarbeit Universität Linz 202
The Effect of Ethnic Diversity on Team Performance : An Analysis of Highly Skilled Teams in Austria
No full textResearchers have studied the relationship between diversity and team performance for decades. Ethnic diversity is highly visible and ethnically diverse teams are growing in frequency, driven by globalisation and technological developments. The effect of ethnic diversity on team performance can be positive, negative, or neutral and depends on context factors. If individuals prefer collaborating with colleagues similar to them, higher diversity can lead to lower trust and communication and thus, decrease performance. Alternatively, individuals from different parts of the world have contrasting experiences and perspectives which in turn can increase performance. In the empirical part I conduct a survey to quantitatively study highly-skilled teams in Austria and their self-reported satisfaction with quality of team performance and team cohesion. The effect of ethnic diversity on self-reported quality of team performance is significantly negative. This effect seems to be driven by lower satisfaction with the performance of colleagues, while measures for efficiency are not affected. This hints at the existence of biases that influence the individual’s satisfaction. Ethnic diversity increases the frequency of conflict in heterogeneous teams but has no impact on self-reported team cohesion. This thesis provides evidence for the necessity of conflict management and communication training to benefit from a diverse workforce.Schon seit Jahrzehnten untersuchen Wissenschafter:innen die Beziehung zwischen Diversität und Teamleistung. Ethnische Diversität ist eine sichtbare Art von Diversität und ethnisch diverse Teams werden immer häufiger, getrieben durch Globalisierung und technologischem Fortschritt. Der Effekt von ethnischer Diversität auf Teamleistung kann positiv, negativ oder neutral sein und ist stark von Kontextfaktoren abhängig. Ethnische Diversität kann zu geringerem Vertrauen und seltenerer Kommunikation führen, wenn Personen bevorzugen mit Kolleg:innen zusammenzuarbeiten, die ihnen selbst ähnlich sind. Dies führt dann zu niedrigerer Leistung. Andererseits haben Personen mit verschiedenen Hintergründen oft unterschiedliche Erfahrungen und Perspektiven, was wiederum die Leistung steigern kann. Im empirischen Teil führe ich eine Umfrage durch, um hochqualifizierte Teams in Österreich und deren selbstberichtete Zufriedenheit mit der Qualität der Teamleistung und dem Teamzusammenhalt quantitativ zu beobachten. Der Effekt von ethnischer Diversität auf die selbstberichtete Zufriedenheit mit der Qualität der Teamleistung ist signifikant negativ. Der Effekt scheint von einer niedrigeren Zufriedenheit mit der Leistung der Kolleg:innen getrieben zu sein. Das deutet auf die Existenz von Vorurteilen hin, die die Zufriedenheit der Person beeinflussen. Ethnische Diversität erhöht die Häufigkeit von Konflikt in heterogenene Teams, aber hat keinen Einfluss auf den selbstberichteten Teamzusammenhalt. Diese Masterarbeit deutet auf die Notwendigkeit von Konfliktmanagement und Kommunikationstraining hin, um von Diversität profitieren zu können.Author Flora StiftingerMasterarbeit Universität Linz 202
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
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
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