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Figure 2 in Diet of tropical insectivorous birds in lowland Malaysian rainforest
No full textFigure 2. The overall distribution of prey individuals determined in dietary samples of birds.Published as part of Mansor, Mohammad Saiful, Abdullah, Nurul Ashikin, Abdullah Halim, Muhammad Rasul, Md. Nor, Shukor & Ramli, Rosli, 2018, Diet of tropical insectivorous birds in lowland Malaysian rainforest, pp. 2301-2316 in Journal of Natural History 52 (35-36) on page 2306, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2018.1534015, http://zenodo.org/record/517741
Taxonomic And Biological Studies Of Cyprinid Genus Poropuntius In Peninsular Malaysia
Full text linkThe cyprinid fishes of the genus Poropuntius consisted of small to medium size, range 10 to 20 cm of standard length as adults are widely distributed mainly in the mainland of Southeast Asia and inhabit foothill streams at moderate elevations. Due to the confusing taxonomic, several species names have been used in the old literature in Peninsular Malaysia, namely, Poropuntius deauratus, Poropuntius normani, and Poropuntius smedleyi. This study aims to determine the taxonomical status, distributional pattern, and some biological aspects of the reproductive pattern of Poropuntius in Peninsular Malaysia. Morphology studies of 281 specimens from different localities indicated three types of Poropuntius species found in Peninsular Malaysia: Poropuntius smedleyi, Poropuntius cf. normani, and Poropuntius normani
A comparative study of small mammal diversity of oil palm plantation and nearby forest / Muhammad Rasul bin Abdullah Halim
Full text linkLarge areas of tropical forests around the world were critically converted into agricultural areas especially oil palm plantation and for other human activities. Malaysia is one of the leaders in oil palm production and conversion of natural ecosystems into agricultural area gives an impact to the local biodiversity. This study aims to compare the diversity and abundance of small mammal species in two different habitats; forested habitat and oil palm plantation in Pahang, Malaysia. The study also intends to investigate the effects of forest edge distances (i.e. adjacent, intermediate, and interior forests) and various ages of oil palm plantation (i.e. young, mature, and old) on small mammal communities. Mist-netting, harp-trapping and cage trapping techniques were applied in all study areas from March 2010 until June 2012. A total of 1125 individuals of non-volant small mammals belonging to 22 species and 4 families were captured. The species richness and diversity of non-volant small mammals were significantly higher in the forested habitat than in oil palm plantation but no significant difference for oil palm ages. Species richness of non-volant small mammals was higher in the adjacent forest than intermediate and interior forests. Malayan Wood Rat (Rattus tiomanicus) dominated oil palm plantation habitat while Bowers’s Rat (Berylmys bowersi) was only found in the intermediate forest. Meanwhile, a total of 526 individuals of volant small mammals belonging to 36 species and 5 families were captured which revealed significant higher number in the forest habitat contrast to the oil palm plantation. There were predominated by common species such as Horsfield’s Fruit Bat (Cynopterus horsfieldi) and Short-nosed Fruit Bat (Cynopterus brachyotis) in the oil palm plantation. This study concluded that habitat types are important in determining the occurrences and composition of small mammals. A complex vegetation structure such as forested areas provided increased microhabitat and availability of food resources compared to oil palm plantation. Thus, proposed in order to promote biodiversity within oil palm landscape the biodiversity outcomes to retain remaining patches of forest within and around the oil palm plantation. The work would assist efforts for conservation strategies and ensuring sustainable management of plantations
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
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