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Revisiting neoliberalism in Ukraine and of Ukraine in regional contestations: amidst despair and hope despite Hope’s Very Lack
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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
Fuel poverty and transport poverty in the UK: a critical examination of their future evolution in relation to government policy
Full text linkIn the UK, transport poverty has evolved out of an explicit analogy with the more recognised fuel poverty. This thesis adapts a practical approach to these phenomena through the use of in-depth semi-structured expert interviews, supported by detailed research and policy review.
Extensive exploration of literature on the subject outlines the broader factors behind the prevalence of fuel and transport poverty in the UK, addressing the impacts of social exclusion and the neoliberal austerity agenda. The theoretical underpinnings of this thesis lie in The Right to the City by Henri Lefebvre, drawing on his vision of emancipatory spatial politics. Insightful primary evidence in the form of 17 expert interviews, taken from the energy and transport sectors, were used to gain a detailed understanding of the impact of government policy on these issues. Thematic analysis of the interview data revealed a number of key themes which are explored in the interview analysis chapter.
The discussion highlights the synergies between the issues of fuel and transport poverty, proposes a range of policy recommendations and makes some key methodological contributions. The contributions to knowledge of fuel and transport poverty are set out in the conclusion. These include advances in understanding the synergies between them along with policy recommendations around the provision of energy advice, addressing the health impacts of cold homes, defining fuel poverty, along with officially recognising and agreeing the structure of transport poverty.
The methodological contributions, advocate the importance of an approach that fits with the local circumstances of the area. Along with the importance of taking a holistic view of the way that people chose to live their lives. This finding brings fuel and transport poverty together, with other forms of poverty.
We urgently need a publicly funded energy efficiency programme in England, in order to meet the UK Government’s fuel poverty target by 2030. It is also vitally important that we achieve official policy recognition of transport poverty from the UK Government, if we are to tackle this issue that blights so many lives
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
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
The energy sector and socio-ecological transformation: Europe in the global context
Full text linkGlobal climate change politics is moving ahead, while policy effectiveness lags behind. The overwhelmingly capitalogenic climate change (Moore 2015; Street 2016) necessitates a global ecosocialist transformation (Yurchenko 2020). In many ways, the EU is a champion of green politics and policy, although its decarbonisation framework has been criticised for being ill-conceived, ill-prescribed and insufficient, especially in the context of internationalised production and consumption of Green House Gas (GHG) emissions. A radically socio-ecological transformation of ’global’ Europe, and the decarbonisation of the EU energy sector as a complex socio-ecological system are needed (SES; Ostrom 2012). Focusing on some 20 years of EU energy market reforms, I argue that decarbonisation aims are jeopardised without (1) public national, local and collective forms of ownership and financing of energy (generation and supply) as a common pool resource (CPR)/commons, and (2) a polycentric mode of governance (Ostrom 2010)
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