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How political decentralization in the outermost regions of the European Union lead to their economic success in the securing of structural funds
Get PDFThe Outermost Regions are among the EU’s least developed regions. As a result, European policy-making towards them are often catered to their realities as stated in EU treaties and Commission Communications. Despite EU recognition of their socio-economic challenges, their levels of socio-economic development continue to be among the EU’s lowest. As subnational political units, on the other hand, the Outermost Regions have political representation in both their member states as well as EU levels of governments. However, because the Outermost Regions have varying levels of political autonomy, their political participation within both levels of government vary as well. This thesis asks the following overarching research question: “Why are some Outermost Regions more economically successful than others?” In order to answer this research question, this thesis takes the independent variables of political autonomy and structural fund allocation while taking their economic “success” as the dependent variable. “Success”, in this case, is measured as the Islands’ growth in GDP per capita in purchasing power standards (PPS) towards the established EU28 average. The thesis’s established timeline consists of the 2007-2013 structural programming period specifically in which the data collection consists of data obtained from Eurostat, Inforegio, as well as the National Strategic Reference Frameworks (NSRFs) from each of the respective member states and regions. The results obtained, however, indicate a positive, yet moderately low, correlation between political autonomy and economic “success” and a negative, albeit low, correlation between structural fund allocation and the Outermost Regions’ economic success towards the end of the 2007-2013 programming period.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2021-08-01The student, Alberto Burgos-Rivera, accepted the attached license on 2019-07-09 at 15:13.The student, Alberto Burgos-Rivera, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2019-07-09 at 15:25.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2019-07-16 at 12:27.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #14224 on 2019-11-26 at 13:05:15Made available in DSpace on 2019-11-26T20:49:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Rethinking integration: what we can learn from social psychology
Get PDFThe integration of vast numbers of migrants into European countries from North Africa and the
Middle East continues pose challenges for policy makers. The many differences between these
immigrants and the native population can make assimilation difficult. In order to increase trust and
social cohesion between citizens and migrant populations, various forms of multicultural and
assimilatory policies have been enacted with mixed success. This study challenges the usefulness
of the current way people think about integration ideologies, namely as a choice between
assimilation and multiculturalism. I hypothesize that we can better analyze public attitudes about
integration by conceptualizing integration as a continuum of possibilities arranged along a scale
of overall permissiveness. Using this continuum, we can entertain new and more effective
ideologies as policy options. My field research conducted surveys with native-born citizens in the
Netherlands and Belgium to gather information about the appeal and usefulness of these new
integration ideologies. This paper finds evidence that the more moderate ideologies of
interculturalism and “liberalism as identity” create stronger feelings of trust toward immigrant
while minimizing in-group projection, overcoming the in-group projection problem. Furthermore,
in Belgium, interculturalism is seen as more desirable to the respondents than the current more
extreme policies of multiculturalism and assimilation.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2017-12-01The student, Neil Vander Most, accepted the attached license on 2015-11-12 at 20:46.The student, Neil Vander Most, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2015-11-12 at 21:27.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2015-11-16 at 13:55.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #8780 on 2016-03-02 at 14:13:01Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-02T21:06:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 5
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How political decentralization in the outermost regions of the European Union lead to their economic success in the securing of structural funds
No full textThe Outermost Regions are among the EU’s least developed regions. As a result, European policy-making towards them are often catered to their realities as stated in EU treaties and Commission Communications. Despite EU recognition of their socio-economic challenges, their levels of socio-economic development continue to be among the EU’s lowest. As subnational political units, on the other hand, the Outermost Regions have political representation in both their member states as well as EU levels of governments. However, because the Outermost Regions have varying levels of political autonomy, their political participation within both levels of government vary as well. This thesis asks the following overarching research question: “Why are some Outermost Regions more economically successful than others?” In order to answer this research question, this thesis takes the independent variables of political autonomy and structural fund allocation while taking their economic “success” as the dependent variable. “Success”, in this case, is measured as the Islands’ growth in GDP per capita in purchasing power standards (PPS) towards the established EU28 average. The thesis’s established timeline consists of the 2007-2013 structural programming period specifically in which the data collection consists of data obtained from Eurostat, Inforegio, as well as the National Strategic Reference Frameworks (NSRFs) from each of the respective member states and regions. The results obtained, however, indicate a positive, yet moderately low, correlation between political autonomy and economic “success” and a negative, albeit low, correlation between structural fund allocation and the Outermost Regions’ economic success towards the end of the 2007-2013 programming period.U of I OnlyAuthor requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD syste
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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