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Migrants’ lower Euroscepticism: utility, identity or values?
No full textMigration is increasingly seen by scholars as important for dynamics around Euroscepticism in Europe. This includes research on the Euroscepticism of migrants and their descendants. Several scholars have found evidence for a negative effect of an individual having a migration background on that person’s Euroscepticism. However, this literature has so far only hypothesized but not adequately empirically investigated why this negative effect could be. Using the two main theories of Utilitarianism and Identarian this research formulates three theoretical mechanisms to explain the negative relationship and tests them empirically. The negative effect on Euroscepticism can either be because people with a migration background have 1) a stronger European Identity 2) more Cultural Tolerance towards others, or 3) have more cross-border economic interactions and thus personal interests in European Integration. Using multivariate regression and mediation analyses these mechanisms are tested based on data taken from the European Social Survey over 31 European countries in the period 2016-2022. It finds empirical support for the European Identity and Cultural Tolerance mechanisms, but no evidence for the cross-border economic interactions mechanism
Peer Effects, Board Interlocking and the Perception of Political Risk of US Firms, 2002-2022
No full textThis thesis researches whether the political risk perception of peer firms’ political risk perception, defined through board interlocks, positively affects the political risk perception of the focal firm. In theory based on the board interlocked networks literature, information related to political risk would spread through these networks. Political risk perception is measured through computational textual analysis of transcripts of Earnings Conference Calls of publicly listed firms in the US. Linear in Means modelling was used based on the Peer Effects literature. Robustness tests included measuring the effect of indirect board interlocks and testing if the CEO, CFO or IR was on the board. The study finds mixed evidence that political risk information of firms spreads through these networks and influences other firms’ political risk perception. I find a small amount of evidence for indirectly board interlocked networks, but not through directly board interlocked networks. The results are not completely in congruence with the well established literature. In the discussion, several possible reasons are discussed for this result. No clear explanation could be found, and therefore multiple avenues of research are open for further investigation
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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