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Batchsize e criteri topologici: un approccio combinato per l'ottimizzazione in sicurezza
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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
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
Behavioral Safety: a way to decrease injuries at work
No full textWork-related injuries are a well known problem all around European Union (EU): every year, at least 170000 workers die and even more suffer severe and permanent injuries.
Even if EU placed the goal of reducing this number by 25% by 2012, in many countries the situation remains unchanged despite the enforcement of increasingly stringent laws that, anyways, elude the most important question: why?
Moreover, in spite of a lot of American and European studies demonstrated that at least 76% of work-related accidents are due to workers unsafe behaviors, blaming workers is not a effective solution because it eludes again the question: why a worker should act unsafe?
An answer to this last question comes from studies about human behavior: a person acts a certain way because he is subject to a number of external stimuli, before and after his act. So, if a person receives a positive consequence as a reward for his behavior, he continues to output the same behavior. Till 80's, Behavior-Based Safety (B-BS) uses this mechanic to provide positive consequences to safe behaviors, instead of negative ones, increasing safety and reducing injuries.
But does B-BS work? Even if a lot of literature case studies of successful B-BS implementation are present, all across the world, there is a lack of scientific experiments to unequivocally state that B-BS increases safe behaviors and reduces injuries. This work provides two different case studies, using not only a before-after
analysis but also using an appropriate mathematical test (Young’s C Test), to examine workers’ behavior changes during time.
The work puts in competition two different B-BS protocols, which share all the fundamentals but differ for start-up time and cost, applied on two different Italian industrial sites: a glass bottle factory and a paint factory.
These protocols obtains the same results, demonstrating not only that B-BS works, but also that behavioral safety can be achieved at low cost even for small European industries
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
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