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Rapport général. Protection contre les inondations par aménagement et contrôle des bassins-versants
No full textWidmann M. Rapport général. Protection contre les inondations par aménagement et contrôle des bassins-versants . In: La prévision des crues et la protection contre les inondations. Dixièmes journées de l'hydraulique. Paris, 5, 6 et 7 juin 1968. Tome 6, 1969
Les glissements de Vailly-Lullin (Haute-Savoie)
No full textMessines du Sourbier J., Widmann M. Les glissements de Vailly-Lullin (Haute-Savoie). In: Revue de géographie alpine, tome 31, n°3, 1943. pp. 399-422
Interpersonal benefits of optimistic expectations: Overriding negative responses to partner withdrawal?
No full textOptimism can be seen as an enduring strength in marriage. It provides spouses with a broader and more flexible range of behavioral options and helps them to successfully navigate stressful situations. Optimism is characterized by a positive attitude toward the future and by positive expectations. While a positive attitude toward the future may benefit adaptation, merely holding positive expectations may lead to disappointment and inflexible responding to daily challenges. Using questionnaires and diaries from 103 couples, this study examines how spouses respond to situations where the partner prefers being alone at the end of a workday. We investigated whether and how optimism, and two components of positive expectations, the overall level of and the flexibility, shape these responses. Findings showed that perceived partner withdrawal was associated with less positive and more negative reported behaviors. Optimism buffered this effect above and beyond the effect of positive expectations. Expectation levels indicated no buffering and even a tendency to more negative and less positive reactions. Finally, and unexpectedly, expectation flexibility had no effect on partners’ reported negative behaviors, and was even associated with less positive reported responses to the partner’s withdrawal. Implications for the theoretical understanding of optimism and expectations, as well as for intervention, will be discussed
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
A contribution to the Italian adaptation of the Destructive-Constructive Leadership Questionnaire
No full textThe study aimed to supply a preliminary contribution to the adaptation of the Destructive-Constructive Leadership Questionnaire (DCL; Ekvall & Arvonen, 1991; Aasland et al., 2010) to the Italian context. The scale, comprising 22 items across 5 dimensions, may represent a comprehensive measure of both negative leadership – such as Tyrannical, Derailed, Supportive-Disloyal, Laissez-faire behaviors – as well as positive leadership, that is Constructive behavior.
The study was carried out with 1230 participants (age: M = 41.75; SD =11.13), both men and women, employed for at least one year at the time of data collection (March-June, 2014). The research questionnaire include the DCL scale, a 5-item measure of Job Satisfaction (Brayfield & Rothe, 1951) and some socio-demographic questions, such as gender, age, level of education, seniority.
Results of a CFA performed via LISREL supported the goodness of fit of the 5 factor model (RMSEA = .03, CFI = .99). Reliability estimates by means of Cronbach’s alpha were acceptable and ranged between .63 to .84. A positive correlation emerged between the measure of Job Satisfaction and that of Constructive leadership. Conversely, the satisfaction measure had a negative connection with Destructive leadership, in line with theoretical assumptions.
The DCL could be a useful tool both for scholars and practitioners who want to detect different facets of leadership behaviors in applied empirical research or intervention, be it positive or negative facets. This is something that already existing leadership inventories rarely offer
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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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