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Professional Women in Agricultural Industry
Get PDFA large body of literature suggests there are many barriers to women in the workplace due to gender bias and long history of men in higher leadership roles. Perhaps one of the more complex industries for women to navigate is the agricultural industry. Through observation and personal experience, I have been exposed to the inequalities and biases against women in the agricultural industry. While times are changing and more women are rising to leadership roles, there are still heavy barriers for them to overcome and personal sacrifices to consider. For example, the Pew Research Center concluded in a study that 39% of the public believes it is better for a woman who wants to reach a high level of leadership in a business to not have children. This is an unfortunate reality for many women to face, especially considering it is a personal choice and has no effect on the ability to effectively lead a business or team. A survey was developed a to help lay groundwork for sharing the reality of women in the agricultural industry. The study was designed to help identify the success factors and barriers women face in advancing in their careers within the agricultural industry. The results of the study cannot be generalized, and conclusions are only applicable to survey respondents. The findings suggested the glass cliff was real, second-generation bias was a contributing factor to a woman’s workplace success and women were often forced to advance in an entirely different manner than men
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
National cattle breed association members’ attitude toward and perceptions of digital advertising
No full textIdentifying agriculturalists’ media preferences has been a looming issue in the advertising industry. There is a noted shift from traditional forms of communications to digitally focused communications. For national cattle breed associations, these consumer-focused communication efforts include advertising strategies for both association-to-producer and producer-to-producer. Through the framework of the Uses and Gratifications Theory, this study was founded on the principle that individuals make intentional choices about the media they consume and utilize for advertising efforts. This framework, along with the Digital Native Assessment Scale (DNAS) (Teo, 2013), guided the development of research objectives and a survey instrument.
The purpose of this study was to identify national cattle breed association members’ use digital advertising. By utilizing Teo’s (2013) DNAS, this study determined how adept members are as they navigate modern technology used for communicating – mobile/smartphones, the internet, and other forms of digital advertising. The instrument was developed with four sections in mind, driven by the research objectives. It was disseminated through two national cattle breed associations’ eblasts. There were 106 preliminary respondents. This study was able to uncover statistical significance for multiple variables, ultimately leading to a comprehensive review of frequently used digital media platforms and recommendations for association utilization. Industry has a great opportunity to create additional business and generate revenue, while future researchers have the opportunity to expand upon this study and provide further applicable data to industry
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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