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Thomson (Ian). Humanist Pietas. The Panegyric of I anus Pannonius on Guarinus Veronensis.
No full textJodogne Pierre. Thomson (Ian). Humanist Pietas. The Panegyric of I anus Pannonius on Guarinus Veronensis.. In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 67, fasc. 3, 1989. Langues et littératures modernes - Moderne taal- en letterkunde. pp. 658-659
Designing environmental impact-valuation assemblages for sustainable decision-making
No full textWe exist in a time of apparently unresolvable environmental problems. If environmental management accounting is to play a meaningful role in resolving these problems, there is a need to build capacity to design environmental impact-valuation assemblages appropriate for sustainable transformation. Impacts are typically described in terms of impacting on what, impacting on whom, quantification of change, responsibility for the impact, risk and uncertainty, impacting where and when, and legitimacy of impact measurement. Each environmental impact-valuation is dependent on a series of choices on how to undertake this work. This chapter presents a framework to help make choices that avoid known pitfalls and increase the chances of more sustainable governance and decision-making. The complex process of measurement or valuation of environmental impact involves creating accounts of the consequences of a decision on selected socio-ecological systems. Paradoxically, the calculation of environmental impacts is designed to prevent them ever happening or to put in place mitigation or restorative measures.</p
Before research methods comes “methodising”:implications for environmental accounting research
No full textEnvironmental accounting and reporting exists in ill-defined, dynamic problem spaces and interacts with different scientific disciplines. These problem spaces require the creation of adaptive, hybrid research methods, rather than just “turning the handle” of existing models. Researchers must imagine and create a compelling case for what and how they are problematising, proposing to change or contributing to future research. This chapter explores the invisible, often silenced work associated with designing research projects by distinguishing the shiny and idealised account of research methods that act to scientifically legitimate findings with the messy process associated with the discovery of these findings. Research method sections in journal articles serve an important function in the communication of findings, but bear no resemblance to the work involved in capturing sufficient, compelling and meaningful evidence. This chapter outlines eight critical stages in bundling together an appropriate research design to address meaningful environmental accounting research questions and by providing an environmental accounting example of methodising.</p
Curating Environmental Accounting Knowledge
No full textThis handbook is conceptualised as a “knowledge project” where a variety of perspectives and insights have been brought together around five sections. The first section draws together insights around the foundations of environmental accounting as well as the emergence of theoretical, methodological and governance themes, covering both academic scholarship and insights from the accounting profession. The second and third sections of the handbook consider how financial accounting/reporting and management accounting have incorporated environmental concerns. In the fourth section, the handbook moves to a regional analysis, presenting how environmental accounting has evolved in different ways in different places: these different trajectories of environmental accounting are often obscured by a narrow focus on “Western” contexts and concerns. The final section of the handbook takes elements of the natural environment, namely, greenhouse gases, water, biodiversity and non-human animals, and reflects on how accounting has/could/should respond(ed) to the particular challenges found in these domains. In this opening chapter of the handbook, we also touch on the relationship of environmental accounting with social justice concerns, the role of education in environmental accounting, as well as outline academic and practice partners in this academic project. Finally, and perhaps heroically, we offer suggestions for the future of the field.</p
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
Articles of Faith:The Collected Tablet Journalism of Graham Greene
No full textWhen Graham Greene died in 1991, at the age of 86, his reputation as a "Catholic" writer was assured. His books reflected an awareness of sin and confronted political and religious themes with a somber eye. From 1936 to 1987, the British Catholic journal The Tablet provided Greene with a forum for his works-in-progress and sometimes unorthodox religious views. For the first time his Tablet contributions are collected in one volume; much of the material has remained forgotten for half a century. For the first time, too, Greene's many book reviews for The Tablet are brought together. His column for the newspaper's "Fiction Chronicle" praised the anti-Fascist Italian novelist Ignazio Silone and even a science fiction by the Czech author Karel Capek
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
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