I have just read a conference paper titled «Why is Europe so efficient at producing scientific papers, and does this explain the European paradox?», by P. Foland & R.D. Shelton (2010 Leiden, STI Conference). The main conclusion is that the relative efficiency in producing papers in the SCI per $1 million in national R&D investment …
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On 17th July 2010 the paper «European political trends viewed through patterns of Web linking«, by Esteban Romero-Frías and Liwen Vaughan, was published in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Reference: ROMERO-FRÍAS, E. & VAUGHAN, L. (2010). “European Political Trends Viewed Through Patterns of Web Linking”. Journal of the American …
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On 28th June 2010 the paper «Web hyperlink patterns and the financial variables of the global banking industry«, by Liwen Vaughan and Esteban Romero-Frías, was published in the Journal of Information Science. Reference: VAUGHAN, L. & ROMERO-FRÍAS, E. (2010). “Web hyperlink patterns and the financial variables of the global banking industry”. Journal of Information Science, …
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In spring 2010 the paper «Patterns of Web Linking to Heterogeneous Groups of Companies: The Case of Stock Exchange Indexes«, by Esteban Romero-Frías and Liwen Vaughan, was published in Aslib Proceedings. Reference: ROMERO-FRÍAS, E. & VAUGHAN, L. (2010) “Patterns of Web Linking to Heterogeneous Groups of Companies: The Case of Stock Exchange Indexes”. Aslib Proceedings, …
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BBC, Radio 4, ha elaborado una serie de 10 capítulos sobre la historia de la contabilidad. El capítulo introductorio parece que no está disponible en la Web. El segundo capítulo sobre Mesopotamia se emitirá hoy y se podrá escuchar durante 7 días en Streaming. Estos son los contenidos de los 10 programas: Prog 1: introduction …
Ha muerto Miguel Delibes, un escritor entrañable, sencillo a la vez que profundo. No olvidaremos sus obras: El camino, La ratas, El príncipe destronado, La sombra del ciprés es alargada, Cinco horas con Mario. Con ellas muchos empezamos a amar la lectura. ¡Buen viaje! Aquí dejo una entrevista magistral que Juan Cruz le hizo a …
El Parlamento Europeo ha aprobado (por 445 votos a favor, 196 en contra y 21 abstenciones) una resolución de ley (legislative resolution) por la cual se pide eximir a las microempresas de la obligación de preparar cuentas anuales. Además se pide una revisión general de la 4ª y 7ª directivas en materia mercantil, durante el …
Here we have the mythical interview of Marshall McLuhan, «the high priest of popcult and metaphysician of media», in Playboy, year 1969. In 1961, the name of Marshall McLuhan was unknown to everyone but his English students at the University of Toronto — and a coterie of academic admirers who followed his abstruse articles in …
In December 2009 the paper «Googling Companies – A Webometric Approach to Business Studies«, by Liwen Vaughan and Esteban Romero-Frías, was published in the Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods. Reference: ROMERO-FRÍAS, E. (2009) “Googling Companies – A Webometric Approach to Business Studies”. Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods, 7(1): 93-106. email erf@ugr.es for copies …
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El lunes 14 de diciembre 2009 tuve la oportunidad de presentar el proyecto Descuadrando en el Departamento de Contabilidad de la Universidad de Valencia. Desde mi paso por allí como estudiante de doctorado siempre he sentido aquel departamento como mi segunda casa. Entre el aforo que atendió la sesión buenos amigos y grandes académicos, investigadores, …
New book available on «Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery», as its own title indicates: THE FOURTH PARADIGM. Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery. Edited by Tony Hey, Stewart Tansley and Kristin Tolle. Microsoft Research. 252 pages. Downloadable here. The book is a collection of essays written by Microsoft’s scientists and outside scientists and pays tribute to Jim Gray. John Markoff …
Jimmy Wales, a co-founder of the Wikipedia project, is recruiting volunteers to edit a downloadable version of the Wikipedia in Spanish. As he mentions in his blog: There has been a lot of good work to get a cut-down version of Wikipedia onto the OLPC, but this is a different and in many ways not …
