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A Methodological Approach for Developing and Validating a Parsimonious and Robust Measurement Tool: The Academic E-Service Quality (ACEQUAL) Model
Get PDFNowadays, in the higher education sector, the quality measurement process of educationrelated
services is assuming a crucial role to support focused and targeted improvement activities
deeply centered on students’ needs/necessities. These are considered crucial factors for dealing with
the current academic competitive context. Therefore, the quality measurement process has to be
precise and accurate, namely the measurement model on which it is based has to be parsimonious and
robust. The present work proposes an effective and easy-to-use methodological approach suitable
for supporting the structuring of a measurement tool. Its effectiveness is shown with reference to
the academic e-service provided at the University of Palermo. In particular, taking into account the
students’ viewpoints and perspectives, a measurement model of the academic e-service quality is
developed and validated, thus overcoming the lack of literature on the subject. Finally, a survey is
conducted, and highlighted academic e-service quality shortcomings and criticalities are stressed
and discussed. The outcomes of this study may be of interest to practitioners and researchers in the
field, offering important suggestions on how to support the structuring of a measurement model, as
well the data-driven service quality improvement process
A methodological framework based on a DANP model for evaluating the software quality in terms of usability: a preliminary investigation on mobile operating systems
Get PDFEvaluation of the software usability as concerns software alternatives represents a typical Multi-
Criteria Decision-Analysis (MCDA) problem. Such a kind of problem can be successfully faced
via structured models and approaches which validity have been widely shown in literature. In
this work, a methodological framework based on a MCDA model integrating the DEMATEL
method along with the ANP technique is proposed and explained with more detail to address the
relevant issue of the software usability evaluation. The applicability of the considered
DEMATEL-ANP (DANP) based model in the under analysis contest is demonstrated via a
preliminary investigation, where the usability of the two major Mobile Operating Systems
(MOSs) is compared and quantitatively prioritized. Results of both performed comparison
method and sensitivity analysis confirm the validity of the proposed MCDA model as well
robustness of its outcomes. Moreover, results obtained point out about the influenced,
independent and core factors for the MOSs usability, as well as strengths, weaknesses and
discrepancies in the usability as concerns the two investigated alternatives. Representing these
outcomes crucial aspects for driving focused MOSs usability improvement processes and
strategies, they give also evidence of the effectiveness of the proposed methodological
framework
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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