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The development of agricultural cooperatives under the influence of European Union subsidies
No full textBakalaureusetöö
Maamajandusliku ettevõtluse ja finantsjuhtimise õppekavalPõllumajandussektoril on oluline roll Euroopa Liidu ja Eesti majanduses. Eesti jagab ühise põllumajanduspoliitika väärtuseid ja põhimõtteid alates Euroopa Liiduga liitumisest 2004. aastal. Euroopa Liidu poliitika ning finantsabi kasutuselevõtt on mõjutanud Eesti põllumajandusühistute majanduslikku käekäiku ning mänginud olulist rolli nende arengus ja jätkusuutlikkuse tagamises. Ühistegevusel põhinevad organisatsioonid, sealhulgas põllumajandusühistud, loovad kogukondliku sidususe ning toetavad ja edendavad liikmete majanduslikke ja sotsiaalseid huve, tagades kollektiivse konkurentsieelise ühisturul. Bakalaureusetöö eesmärk on välja selgitada, kuidas on Euroopa Liidu ühise põllumajanduspoliitika toetused mõjutanud Eesti põllumajandusühistute arengut. Töö koostamisel kasutakse kvantitatiivset lähenemist, mis võimaldab ankeetküsitluse teel koondada Eesti põllumajandusühistute esindajate arvamust Euroopa Liidu finantsabi kasutuselevõtu mõjudest. Ankeetküsitluse käigus kogutud andmed analüüsitakse võrdleva analüüsi meetodiga ning selgitatakse välja Euroopa Liidu toetuste mõju Eesti põllumajandusühistutele.
Uuringu tulemustest selgub, et vastanud Eesti põllumajandusühistute arengus on Euroopa Liidu ühisel põllumajanduspoliitikal oluline roll, suurendades toetustega ühistute konkurentsivõimet ja säilenõtkust. Samas takistavad vastanud põllumajandusühistute tegevust ja arengut toetuste kasutamisega seotud bürokraatia ning piirangud. Lisaks mõjutavad nende tegevust struktuurilised ja majanduskeskkonnaga seotud tegurid – uute vastanud põllumajandusühistute arv on madal, enamik vastanud ühistuid on väikesed ning vähese liikmete juurdekasvuga. Siiski on põllumajandusühistutel jätkuvalt tähtis roll kohalike põllumajandustootjate huvide esindamisel, maapiirkondade arengu toetamisel ning toidujulgeoleku kindlustamisel.The agricultural sector plays an important role in the economy of both the European Union and Estonia. Since joining the European Union in 2004, Estonia has shared the values and principles of the Common Agricultural Policy. European Union policies and subsidies have influenced the economic functioning of Estonian agricultural cooperatives and have played a significant role in their development and the support of their sustainability. Organisations based on cooperative activity, including agricultural cooperatives, foster cohesion and support the economic and social interests of their members, ensuring a collective competitive advantage in the common market. The aim of this Bachelor’s thesis is to determine how the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy subsidies have influenced the development of agricultural cooperatives in Estonia. A quantitative research method is used in the preparation of the thesis. Through a questionnaire it is possible to gather the opinions of representatives of Estonian agricultural cooperatives regarding the impact of the European Union’s financial support. The data collected through the survey will be analyzed using comparative analysis method to identify the impact of European Union subsidies on Estonian agricultural cooperatives. The findings of the study indicate that the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy plays a significant role in the development of the surveyed Estonian agricultural cooperatives, enhancing their competitiveness and resilience through financial support. However, the activities and development of these cooperatives are impeded by bureaucratic obstacles and limitations related to the use of support measures. Additionally, their operations are influenced by structural and economic factors – the number on newly established agricultural cooperatives among respondents is low, most of studied cooperatives are small in size and show limited growth in their membership. Nevertheless, agrcultural cooperatives continue to play an important role in representing the interests of local agricultural producers, supporting rural development and ensuring food security
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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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