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A system Dynamics interpretation of Danish total fertility rates
No full textThrough the past century Europe has faced declines in the total fertility rate. Previous research has tried to explain this phenomenon of low fertility by trying to figure out what social or economic factors have influenced and created this change. This paper too seeks to investigate total fertility rates and does so through a new way of approaching total fertility rates. System dynamics theory is applied, and this means that mechanisms embedded in the system become the focus. The total fertil-ity rate model, a model made in this paper, is used to examine total fertility rates in Denmark. The conclusion of this was the fertility rate hypothesis, which claims that the decline in fertility was an expected outcome of women’s liberation and the economic recession in the 70s. These events creat-ed instability in the system structure, and it took time before the system recovered from this insta-bility. If the fertility rate hypothesis is correct, then no major declines in fertility should occur, as long as the total fertility rate’s system avoids major changes that could create new instability.Through the past century Europe has faced declines in the total fertility rate. Previous research has tried to explain this phenomenon of low fertility by trying to figure out what social or economic factors have influenced and created this change. This paper too seeks to investigate total fertility rates and does so through a new way of approaching total fertility rates. System dynamics theory is applied, and this means that mechanisms embedded in the system become the focus. The total fertil-ity rate model, a model made in this paper, is used to examine total fertility rates in Denmark. The conclusion of this was the fertility rate hypothesis, which claims that the decline in fertility was an expected outcome of women’s liberation and the economic recession in the 70s. These events creat-ed instability in the system structure, and it took time before the system recovered from this insta-bility. If the fertility rate hypothesis is correct, then no major declines in fertility should occur, as long as the total fertility rate’s system avoids major changes that could create new instability
Happiness in Education
No full textAbstract What makes this project different is that it brings up relevant issues such as happiness and hopes and dreams for the future. Issues that are hardly brought in society today where all is about money and having the right kind of job that makes you fit into the job market. We want to conduct a qualitative study with the aim of explaining how the concept of happiness relates to education using RUC as a case, by investigating the dispersal of subjective meanings. Our aim is to describe the relations, similarities and discrepancies among these. This is done using a mixed methodology, containing face-to-face interviews and interviews send out by email, all to RUC students. Some of the questions we will try to answer are; in what ways is society affecting University students in relation to a happy life? Do students think of happiness before, under or after education as explicitly important to them? What are RUC students current expectations toward the future? and; What do RUC students think of their education? To answer these questions, the project is build up deductively using theories to frame our understanding of happiness after which we gathered data through interviews with sixteen students from different faculties. The content of the interviews is used to answer our questions. We have discovered a pattern showing concern about the future in regards to the current state of the Danish society and a majority of the respondents express a need for something to change in society, but there is also a general positive attitude towards the future and a notion that change will be for the better. This and many other findings are presented in this report.Abstract What makes this project different is that it brings up relevant issues such as happiness and hopes and dreams for the future. Issues that are hardly brought in society today where all is about money and having the right kind of job that makes you fit into the job market. We want to conduct a qualitative study with the aim of explaining how the concept of happiness relates to education using RUC as a case, by investigating the dispersal of subjective meanings. Our aim is to describe the relations, similarities and discrepancies among these. This is done using a mixed methodology, containing face-to-face interviews and interviews send out by email, all to RUC students. Some of the questions we will try to answer are; in what ways is society affecting University students in relation to a happy life? Do students think of happiness before, under or after education as explicitly important to them? What are RUC students current expectations toward the future? and; What do RUC students think of their education? To answer these questions, the project is build up deductively using theories to frame our understanding of happiness after which we gathered data through interviews with sixteen students from different faculties. The content of the interviews is used to answer our questions. We have discovered a pattern showing concern about the future in regards to the current state of the Danish society and a majority of the respondents express a need for something to change in society, but there is also a general positive attitude towards the future and a notion that change will be for the better. This and many other findings are presented in this report
Agricultural Interest Organisations' Influence on the Legislative Process in Denmark: A Case Study on the Buffer Zone Law
No full textPolicy making is a lengthy, legislative process, liable to be subject to various internal and external factors of influence, each practiced within their code of conduct. One influence often kept low-key is that of the interest organisation, attempting to set the agenda to the benefit of its members. A particularly current case of this is the case of the law of buffer zones in Denmark, which allowed for engaged reactions by the agricultural interest organisations. This project is set to examine the workings of these interest organisations, and how they practice lobbyism in order to further their own case via closed door meetings - a black box in the legislative process. Our focus, as such, will be on the current case of buffer zones and how these agricultural interest organisations acquire their influence and thusly may enable themselves to affect legislation. We will largely acquire our empirical data through interviews with agricultural interest organisation representatives and we will base our analysis on several theories regarding democracy, interest organisations and group theory.Policy making is a lengthy, legislative process, liable to be subject to various internal and external factors of influence, each practiced within their code of conduct. One influence often kept low-key is that of the interest organisation, attempting to set the agenda to the benefit of its members. A particularly current case of this is the case of the law of buffer zones in Denmark, which allowed for engaged reactions by the agricultural interest organisations. This project is set to examine the workings of these interest organisations, and how they practice lobbyism in order to further their own case via closed door meetings - a black box in the legislative process. Our focus, as such, will be on the current case of buffer zones and how these agricultural interest organisations acquire their influence and thusly may enable themselves to affect legislation. We will largely acquire our empirical data through interviews with agricultural interest organisation representatives and we will base our analysis on several theories regarding democracy, interest organisations and group theory
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
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