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Measuring the Effectiveness of Lagoon Quest: A Case Study in Environmental Education Program Evaluation
No full textCircular 1528, a 33-page full-color report by Judith Chen-Hsuan Cheng, Martha C. Monroe, and Alison Gordon, is a report of the evaluation of the second year of implementing Lagoon Quest in Brevard County, Florida and also a case study of program evaluation, intended to illustrate the program evaluation process and help extension agents and others improve their educational activities. Published by the UF School of Forest Resources and Conservation, August 2008.
CIR1528/FR261: Measuring the Effectiveness of Lagoon Quest: A Case Study in Environmental Education Program Evaluation (ufl.edu
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Prodilis alison Gordon and Hanley 2017, new species
No full text41. Prodilis alison Gordon and Hanley, new species Description. Male holotype. Length 2.2 mm, width 1.5 mm; body oval, elytron with side rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest at middle of elytra. Dorsal surface shiny except elytron with trace of microsculpture. Color black; elytron with median, oval, yellow macula (Fig. 547); head (Fig. 549); antenna, mouthparts, legs yellow. Head punctures small, separated by a diameter or less; pronotal punctures larger than on head, separated by a diameter or less; elytral punctures as large as on pronotum, separated by less than twice a diameter; prosternal punctures small, separated by a diameter or less; mesosternal punctures large, separated by less than a diameter; metasternal punctures basally and laterally as large as on mesosternum, separated by a diameter or less, median punctures small, separated by less than 3 times a diameter; abdomen with punctures on ventrites 1–3 large, separated by a diameter or less, punctures on remaining ventrites smaller, separated by about a diameter. Head with frons densely pubescent, not widened from vertex to clypeus, sides parallel, slightly wider than eye measured at vertex; eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere short, widened from base to apex. Pronotum widest at middle, reflexed lateral margin narrow, equal in width from base to apex. Epipleuron flat, wide in basal ½, as wide as pronotal hypomeron, without feeble depressions for reception of femoral apices. Prosternum longer than wide, longer than mesosternum, base weakly emarginate, lateral carina slender, extended anterior to procoxa. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 short, rounded, extended slightly beyond middle of ventrite (Fig. 548). Apex of ventrite 5 arcuate. Genitalia with phallobase long, slender, basal lobe longer than paramere, widened from base to 3/4, slightly more strongly widened before abruptly rounded apex, apex not emarginate; paramere slender, straight, apex rounded, without marginal serrations (Fig. 550, 551); sipho long, slender, apical 1/3 almost filamentous (Fig. 552). Female. Similar to male except head not densely pubescent. Female genitalia with ramus of spermathecal capsule enlarged, slender to cornu, apex of cornu with forked beak. Variation. Length 2.0 to 2.2 mm, width 1.5 mm. Type material. Holotype male; BRAZIL: Santarem, AccNo. 2966. (CMNH). Paratypes; 1, same data as holotype (CMNH); 2, Cl. Fry, Pernam. (Pernambuco, Brazil) (BMNH). Remarks. This species has a distinctive elytral color pattern as well as characteristic male genitalia.Published as part of Gordon, Robert D. & Hanley, Guy A., 2017, South American Coccinellidae (Coleoptera), Part XVII: systematic revision of Western Hemisphere Cephaloscymnini (Coccinellinae) with description of a cryptic new genus and species of Coccidulini (Coccinellinae), pp. 1-158 in Insecta Mundi 2017 (601) on page 86, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.517003
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Alison Gordon
Get PDFOver the past ten days there has been an avalanche of deaths of major sports figures. The obituary writers have been kept busy and tributes have been coming from all directions in sportsworld. The death of Dean Smith attracted the attention of sports writers and social commentators across the country. A few days later tributes came for Jerry Tarkanian another legendary college basketball coach. The passing of Charlie Sifford, golf’s Jackie Robinson led to reflections on the central place race has played in the world of sport. So too with the death of Ernie Banks came a reminder of the segregated past of baseball and those whose who pioneered in baseball towns and cities across America in the 1950s
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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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