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A Bibliometric Study of the Global Research Activity in Sustainability and Its Dimensions
Cataldo, R. Grassia, M. G. Lauro, C. N. Marino, M. Voytsekhovska, V.The scientific production on “sustainability” has been increasing in recent...
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Longevity Risk Versus Longevity Dividend
Increased longevity means paying more for pensions, health care, and long-term care for the elderly. Many countries will be able to raise taxes...
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Does education protect families' well-being in times of crisis? Measurement issues and empirical findings from IT-SILC data
This study analyses the relationship between education and material well-being from a longitudinal perspective using the European Survey on Income...
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Applications of Correlation
This chapter gives a bird’s eye view of application of correlation in various fields. A large number of R packages for this purposes are given in...
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Local Heterogeneities in Population Growth and Decline. A Spatial Analysis of Italian Municipalities
Spatially unequal demographic dynamics lead to a progressive fragility of a territory and its socio-economic system. In Italy, municipalities...
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Analyzing the Profitability and Efficiency in European Non-Life Insurance Industry
This paper proposes a new three-step approach to build an Optimal Production Plan for insurance companies. Two techniques are used compared to the...
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A measure of dignified treatment for healthcare workers: design and psychometric properties
Despite the importance of both user and healthcare worker considerations to the achievement of a comprehensive understanding of dignified care in...
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Using Classification of Regions Based on the Complexity of the Global Progress Indices for Supporting Development in Competitiveness
On the methodological difficulties of creating social measurement indicators. This paper focuses on the three pillars of the Regional Competitiveness...
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Index Numbers
Index numbers are a type of economic indicator that represent the relative change in the value of a variable (e.g., price, quantity, production,...
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CRM and Marketing Analytics
Customer relationship management (CRM) and marketing analytics is a combination of techniques, technologies, and strategies that serve to create and...
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The Impact of Longevity on a Valuation of Long-Term Investments Returns: The Case of Selected European Countries
The impact of longevity risk is a topic of growing importance in academic research and public debate over the past few years. From the individual’s...
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Qualitative Judgement of Research Impact: Domain Taxonomy as a Fundamental Framework for Judgement of the Quality of Research
The appeal of metric evaluation of research impact has attracted considerable interest in recent times. Although the public at large and...
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Additional Indexes and Indicators for Assessment of Research Production
About forty-five indexes for assessment of research production of single researchers have been discussed in Chap. 2...
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Inferential Statistics for Hypothesis Testing
This chapter discusses and illustrates inferential statistics for hypothesis testing. The procedures and fundamental concepts reviewed in this...
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Commonly Used Indexes for Assessment of Research Production
In this chapter, selected indicators and indexes (constructed on the basis of research publications and/or on the basis of a set of citations of...
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Specialised Statistical Procedures
In this chapter, we explore more specialised statistical procedures as well as a fundamental concept, Bayesian statistical inference. The procedures...
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Science and Society. Assessment of Research
Science is a driving force of positive social evolution. And in the course of this evolution, research systems change as a consequence of their...
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Frequency and Rank Approaches to Research Production. Classical Statistical Laws
We discussScientific production several classical statistical laws that are important for understanding characteristics of research...
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The Tempered Discrete Linnik distribution
We introduce a new family of integer-valued distributions by considering a tempered version of the Discrete Linnik law. The proposal is actually a...
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Concluding Remarks
In this chapter, several concluding remarks are provided about the importance of science for society and about general characteristics of research...