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The status of water at the origin of conceptual and theoretical conflicts
Full text linkWith the multiplication of ecological crises that have wreaked havoc throughout history, it was imperative to reconcile the model of economic development based on infinite growth with respect for ecological concerns, admitting that we live in a world with finite resources.; we are talking here about sustainable development that integrates the environmental dimension within the process of socio-economic development.
Many authors have paid particular attention towards this coveted resource admitting that it commands the development of human societies, however, a crucial uprising seems to preoccupy all confused collars during international conferences. Indeed, it is necessary to clarify the nature of this resource which creates theoretical equivocations because of the confusion that it poses as for its status. The present paper aims at a better understanding of the status of water based on the literature review, in this sense, we will present crossed glances, by confronting some theorie
 
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
Le statut de l'eau à l'origine de querelles conceptuelles et théoriques
No full textAvec la multiplication des crises écologiques qui ont fait des ravages a travers l’histoire, il est impératif de concilier le modèle de développement économique basé sur la croissance avec le respect de la préoccupation écologique, admettant que nous vivons dans un monde aux ressources finis. En effet, le passage à un autre modèle plus viable de développement s’impose comme un Game changer, on parle ici de développement durable qui intègre la dimension environnementale au sein du processus de développement socioéconomique.
Nombreux sont les auteurs qui ont porté une attention particulière à l’appétit insatiable de l’humain envers cette ressource tant convoitée admettant qu’elle commande le développement des sociétés humaines, toutefois un soulèvement crucial semble préoccuper tous cols confondus lors des conférences internationales, ce n’est autre que le statut de l’eau et le caractère ambigu qui l’entoure.
En effet, il s’avère nécessaire d’éclaircir la nature de cette ressource qui crée des équivoques théoriques du fait de la confusion qu’il pose quant à son statut.
Dans le but d’apporter une contribution au débat, nous allons présenter dans ce papier des regards croisés sur le statut de cette ressource présentant des ambivalences quant à ses caractères collectifs et économiques
Stress professionnel : Cas des membres de la Commission Spéciale sur le Modèle de Développement
Full text linkCe papier s’intéresse à la portée psychosociale des travaux de la commission spéciale sur le modèle de développement (CSMD). Il porte sur l’évaluation du cadre de travail de ses membres, chargés de la conception du nouveau modèle de développement (NMD), en termes de prolifération du stress professionnel. Pour se faire, la présente recherche entreprend de déterminer la manière dont le niveau de stress vécu par les membres de la CSMD impacte leur rendement. L’article présente les différents déclencheurs potentiels de stress professionnel relatifs aux particularités de la CSMD, dont l’inventaire se base essentiellement sur l’analyse du cadre opérationnel de la commission. Ces facteurs de stress émanent de la nature intrinsèque de la CSMD : Une pression exogène, des enjeux stratégiques, un prisme de complexité, une ferme appréciation des performances, une échéance réduite, une hétérogénéité des membres et une attente citoyenne. L’article examine par la suite leurs retombées sur le niveau de performance des membres ainsi que le potentiel d’altération de son rendement
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
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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