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Farm households' perception of weather change and flood adaptations in northern Pakistan
No full textThis research investigates farm households' adaptations to climate change-driven monsoon floods in the rural district of Nowshera, Pakistan. Some households in these flood-affected communities have undertaken autonomous adaptations to flooding. We surveyed five hundred farm households from both flood-affected and unaffected villages to investigate the factors driving the uptake of the following autonomous flood adaptations: plinth elevation, grain storage, participation in communal flood preparations and the creation of edge-of-field tree lined shelterbelts. We used both binary and multivariate probit regressions to investigate the correlation across adaptation options. Empirical results suggest that access to agricultural extension services, off-farm work opportunities, past duration of standing floodwaters, farm to river distance, receiving post-flooding support and tribal diversity are the main drivers of flood adaptations. Moreover, we report the complementary uptake of adaptations in pairs. Given the prediction of climate change-driven flooding in the Hindu Kush, we recommend cost-effective policies that increase the resilience of vulnerable agricultural-dependent rural communities. In addition, we report that respondents perceived a change in weather towards hotter and dryer weather over the last ten years
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe 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
The Folio: F. C. College Lahore
No full textE. J. Sinclair-Message. pp. 5-6; Asadullah Khawaja-Editorial. pp. 7-8; Ewing, R. M.-Article-Mowbray Velte. pp. 9-11; Bhatty, M. S.-Article-Dr F. Mowbray Velte. pp. 12-15; Abdul Hasan Helmy-IT. pp. 16; V. A.-Article-Professor Speers...A Tribute. pp. 17-19; Mohammed Unis Khan-Election Fever in F.C.C. pp. 20-25; Abdul Hasan Helmy-The Hidden Light. pp. 26; Ijaz-ur-Rehman-The Gold Medal. pp. 27-31; Mohammad Anwar Rizwi-These Guys are Dangerous. pp. 32-34; Schloholtz, Rev A. A.-Article-The Student's Dilemma. pp. 35-37; Brush, S. E.-Article-A Lost Fragment of the Odyssey. pp. 38-43; Abdul Qayum Meer-Story-The Capture of the White Bandit. pp. 44-46; S. E. B.-The Student Centre. pp. 47-49; Syed Javed Iqbal-Story-Thought and Sensation. pp. 50-55; Ayaz Hassan-The Big Two. pp. 56-57; Mian Aftab Ahmed-Story-The Stove. pp. 58-61; Salah-ud-Din Leghari-Article-Why am I an Optimist. pp. 62-64; Sh. Tahir Mahmood-Story-A Friend. pp. 65-67; Saif-ud-Din-Story-Poison for Poison. pp. 68-75; Zulfiqar-ul-Islam Khan-Article-British Entry in E.C.M. 76-81; Samyano, K.-Article-Uganda. pp. 82-83; Sh. Tahir Mahmood-Infatuated. pp. 84-86; A. H.-The Situation. pp. 87-88; The Campus Report. pp. 89-92; Folio [Urdu]. 70 p.Professor E. J. Sinclair, Principal. after the Message page; The Editorial Board. page after the Editorial; The College Union. page after the Editorial; Dr F. M. Velte. after page 16; Professor Speers. after page 16; Amrit Mall, Represented Pakistan Universities in Asian Games in 1962. after page 92; Eric Benjamin, Best Athlete 1963. after page 92; Ghulam Nabi, Captain Athletic Team, 1962-63. after page 92; Nasir Ali Khan, A Prominent Athlete. after page 9
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
Design and Analysis of High Index Contrast Gratings Using Coupled Mode Theory
No full textWe analyze high-refractive-index-contrast subwavelength grating structures using truncated coupled mode theory (CMT). CMT not only provides physical insight into the role of each mode in the overall response but also allows for improved design. An analytic expression is derived for the design of broadband reflectors, providing a near-optimal design that is within 0.08% of the maximum broadband reflectivity calculated by the finite-difference time-domain method. Furthermore, the CMT is used to design a high-quality narrow-band reflector with 28% improved quality factor over previously reported results, as quantified by rigorous coupled wave analysis
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Letter from R. R. Zellick, Assistant Trust Officer, Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco, to Joseph R. Goodman, October 2, 1942
No full textLetter from R. R. Zellick, Assistant Trust Officer at The Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco, to Joseph R. Goodman, regarding property owned by Dave Tatsuno. Zellick mentions a dispute between current tenants and Tatsuno, and that Tatsuno has asked Goodman to help locate trustworthy tenants.Personal correspondence, organizational records, government documents, publications, and other papers created or collected by Joseph R. Goodman documenting the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, as well as organized resistance to incarceration. Included in the collection are records of the Japanese Young Men's Christian Association and the Japanese American Citizens' League in San Francisco, including papers of the Japanese YMCA's executive secretary Lincoln Kanai; Sakai family papers; Goodman's correspondence to and from Japanese American incarcerees, organizations opposing forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, the War Relocation Authority, and others; publications, photographs, and ephemera from the Topaz Relocation Center, where Goodman taught high school; War Relocation Authority records and publications; and newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and reports about forced removal and incarceration created by various government, religious, and civic organizations, in California and nationwide
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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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