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Evaluating the employment-generating impact of rural roads in Nicaragua

Rand, John - In: Journal of Development Effectiveness 3 (2011) 1, pp. 28-43

This paper analyses the employment-generating impact of a tertiary road project in Nicaragua, applying a matched double …

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Ray Pahl's Sociological Career: Fifty Years of Impact

Crow, Graham; Takeda, Naoko - In: Sociological Research Online 16 (2011) 3, pp. 11-11

questions such as how disciplines evolve, and how impact can be achieved amongst and beyond academic peers. This article focuses … distinctive record as a sociologist within and beyond the academy, which long pre-dates current concerns with 'impact'. …

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The Tourist Experience and the Challenges of the Environment

MAZILU, Mirela; ISPAS, Roxana - In: Timisoara Journal of Economics 2 (2009) 2(6), pp. 111-116

Like any other human activity, without containing intentional elements, tourism, being a consumer of space and tourist resources, participates implicitly in the degradation and the pollution of the environment of the tourist potential, either through the direct pressure of the tourists on the...

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Evaluating the Consequences of Ageing Population on Healthcare Cost to Ghana using Inflation-Adjusted Expenditure and Demographic Factors

Yiranbon, Ethel; Lulin, Zhou; Antwi, Henry Asante; … - In: International Journal of Academic Research in … 4 (2014) 2, pp. 282-290

There is a gap between rhetoric and reality concerning healthcare expenditures and population aging: although decades-old research suggests otherwise, there is widespread belief that the sustainability of the healthcare system is under serious threat owing to population aging. To shed new...

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A modification of the h-index: The hm-index accounts for multi-authored manuscripts

Schreiber, Michael - In: Journal of Informetrics 2 (2008) 3, pp. 211-216

In order to take multiple co-authorship appropriately into account, a straightforward modification of the Hirsch index was recently proposed. Fractionalised counting of the papers yields an appropriate measure which is called the hm-index. The effect of this procedure is compared in the present...

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The trend of concentration in scientific research and technological innovation: A reduction of the predominant role of the U.S. in world research & technology

Huang, Mu-Hsuan; Chang, Han-Wen; Chen, Dar-Zen - In: Journal of Informetrics 6 (2012) 4, pp. 457-468

technology respectively. The performance of these outputs in production and citation impact is taken into consideration in the … and citation impact, and Taiwan and Korea have experienced a rapid growth in patents over the past years. The degree of …

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Non-alphanumeric characters in titles of scientific publications: An analysis of their occurrence and correlation with citation impact

Buter, R.K.; van Raan, A.F.J. - In: Journal of Informetrics 5 (2011) 4, pp. 608-617

occurrence with impact, using the field-normalised citation metric CPP/FCSm. We compared occurrence and correlation with impact …-parametrically) bootstrapping the calculation of impact values. We also compared use and impact of individual characters in the 30 fields in which … that not including such characters generally correlates negatively with impact. Specific disciplines on the other hand, may …

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Citations to scientific articles: Its distribution and dependence on the article features

Vieira, E.S.; Gomes, J.A.N.F. - In: Journal of Informetrics 4 (2010) 1, pp. 1-13

The citation counts are increasingly used to assess the impact on the scientific community of publications produced by …

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Life cycle assessment of municipal solid waste treatment to energy options: Case study of KARTAMANTUL region, Yogyakarta

Gunamantha, Made; Sarto - In: Renewable Energy 41 (2012) C, pp. 277-284

scenario. Inventory’s result was classified into impact categories, i.e. global warming, acidification, eutrophication, and … to determine the environmental performance of each scenario. The study shown that in most of the impact categories …

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Impact assessment of global and national biofuels developments on agriculture in Pakistan

Ali, Tariq; Huang, Jikun; Yang, Jun - In: Applied Energy 104 (2013) C, pp. 466-474

This research uses GTAP model to assess the expected future effects of national and global biofuels policies on agriculture markets and food prices in Pakistan. Our results show that by 2020, global mandates on biofuels will significantly affect the prices, production and trade of major...

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