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The Capacities Of Policy To End Deforestation- Systematic Literature Review
Get PDFOver the decades, policy capacity is gained momentum in the public policy discourse and it obvious from the literature that different units of government agencies or organisations require different capacities. Policy capacity is understood around government but the concept has been broadened to include other organisations such as private, NGOs, among others. This research focused on organisational capacity in the lens of policy analytical capacity through an evidence-based approach to emphasise the importance of information to policy decisions.
This research employed PRISMA SLR to examined the capacities of policy to end deforestation and its related discourse around environmental issues as well as the relevance of the information to environmental decision-making. The rationale of employing PRISMA SLR is to synthesize and review the existing literature on policy capacity and environmental issues. This research aimed to discuss policy capacity in relation to end deforestation problem and information gap in the forest sector. The researcher employed PRISMA research protocol to examine policy capacity discourse in public policy studies and segments his search strategy for journal articles in Scopus and Web of Science index journals into three aspects of capacity studies such as policy capacity, organisational capacity, and policy analytical capacity. The data selection and rejection went through PRISMA statement 2015 that is an authentic eligibility criterion for study inclusion and exclusion process. Then, seventy-three (73) studies are selected and reviewed under this study which is classification in the following areas such as, policy capacity, organisational capacity, policy analytical capacity and deforestation. The literature on the three aspects of policy capacity mentioned above is mapped according to subject area and country to ascertain weak scientific publications among developing countries as compared to developed countries. In accordance with PRISMA SLR, policy capacity is viewed as a panacea to improving governance system of any country or organisation because it involves knowledge, competencies, and skills to process information in order to make the intelligent collective choice. It is common agreement among the policy scholars that policy capacity is a determinant to improve policy outcome and it helps the policy actors to be able to solve policy problems with aid of accurate and reliable information. The study revealed from the literature that policy capacity is weak in most organisations and where it is not, it is not recognised. The results show that most literature reviewed under this research is based on qualitative research which helps to understand the concept of capacity at different point of view and established complex relationship on issues. Needless to say, quantitative research in policy capacity may be valuable to forest management as it will help to better understand the subtle of forest policy problems and offer solutions to those problems
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
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
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