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Port safety, including, storage and the disposal of dangerous goods in Namibian ports
Get PDFThis paper; Port safety including handling, storage and disposal of dangerous goods, aims to enhance port safety and consequently efficiency and production in the ports of Namibia. It attempts to achieve this through the establishment of a soundly based safety policy common to all of the Namibian ports. The paper discusses the safety of employees; personnel protective equipment; safety conduct by the individual employees; legal obligations; plant and equipment; cargo handling gear and the disposal of dangerous cargo and the role of various national and international organizations in achieving port safety. It discusses the influences on safety and port development, especially with the increasing quantities of dangerous goods being handled in port today how accidents occur in the port due to various causes and all the preventive measures that may be taken to avert accidents. This paper recommends to make independent Namibia less dependent on Wai vis Bay (which still is under the control of S.A.) Luderitz Bay can be developed into a port for handling most of Namibia’s import and export requirements as it is a large natural habour with adequate space. The paper concludes, will ensure port efficiency and subsequent economic advantages for the Namibian nation
The road safety in Namibia: Focus on road traffic accidents
No full textThis paper discusses road traffic accidents in Namibia. The occurrence of road accidents and the resulting fatalities and injuries are of great concern to the government of the Republic of Namibia. This is confirmed by available vehicle collision rate and overload statistics as well as independent studies of the municipal and Namibia traffic police. The paper also discusses the new road traffic and transport act, which is envisaged to be implemented in due course. This will improve the control of vehicle roadworthiness testing and registration, licensing of drivers, rules of the road and traffic law enforcement. The so-called ”human factor” plays a role in the majority of vehicle accidents. Cognitive psychology provides more detailed information on human factors. It explains theoretical concepts and principles on how the mind works. It has also been said that cars do not cause accidents, people do. For this reason a ”technical” and ”legal” approach alone are not regarded as sufficient to improve the road traffic safety situation in Namibia. Additional actions directed at applied research education of the public and in general the engendering of a road traffic safety ethic is necessary
The road safety in Namibia: focus on road traffic accidents
Get PDFThis paper discusses road traffic accidents in Namibia. The occurrence of road accidents and the resulting fatalities and injuries are of great concern to the government of the Republic of Namibia. This is confirmed by available vehicle collision rate and overload statistics as well as independent studies of the municipal and Namibia traffic police. The paper also discusses the new road traffic and transport act, which is envisaged to be implemented in due course. This will improve the control of vehicle roadworthiness testing and registration, licensing of drivers, rules of the road and traffic law enforcement. The so-called ”human factor” plays a role in the majority of vehicle accidents. Cognitive psychology provides more detailed information on human factors. It explains theoretical concepts and principles on how the mind works. It has also been said that cars do not cause accidents, people do. For this reason a ”technical” and ”legal” approach alone are not regarded as sufficient to improve the road traffic safety situation in Namibia. Additional actions directed at applied research education of the public and in general the engendering of a road traffic safety ethic is necessary
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
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
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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