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Canada High-resolution Urban Morphology to be used for WRF application
No full text<div>This file provides information on how to extract Urban Morphology parameters for the province of British Columbia (BC), Canada. These high-resolution parameters are needed to successfully run the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model coupled with Single Layer (option 1 in WRF urban physics) and Multi-layer (option 2 and 3 in WRF model, urban physics) Urban Canopy Models. This Shapefile dataset has been generated using the Housing dataset from the <a href="https://ftp.maps.canada.ca/pub/nrcan_rncan/extraction/auto_building/shp/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Canada data warehouse</a>. The shapefiles were collected and combined to serve as input for the Python script.</div>
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<div>In this file, "domain" refers to the domain the WRF model will be run for (e.g., d01, or d01, d02, d03, etc. if a nested domain is used in the WRF model). </div>
<div>"geo_em.{domain}.nc" refers to the output of the geogrid.exe program which is one of the core programs of WPS program. </div>
<div>For example, for a 3 nested domain setup, geo_em files will be annotated as follows: 'geo_em.d01.nc', 'geo_em.d02.nc', 'geo_em.d03.nc'.</div>
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<div>This folder contains all the documents necessary for extracting the Urban Morphology parameters. Refer to Section 1 for a description of the folder structure. </div>
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<div>You will first need to extract the shapefile of the domain considered using the VERDI program (https://www.cmascenter.org/verdi/). For more details, refer to Section 2. Make sure to save this shapefile under the SHP subfolder described in Section 1. </div>
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<div>To utilize the dataset, ensure the geo_em files are placed in the 'Main' folder mentioned in Section 1, which should also contain the Python script named 'Canada_UrbanMorphology.py', the folder with the dataset (geo_em.{domain}.nc), and the folder with the shapefiles (Home_BC and domain).</div>
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<div>The Python script 'Canada_UrbanMorphology.py' necessitates three libraries: NetCDF4, geopandas, and numpy, all of which can be installed via pip or Anaconda. Follow the specific instructions provided in Section 3 to adjust the script, then proceed to running the program using the following command:</div>
<div>python3 Canada_UrbanMorphology.py</div>
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<div>Section 1. Folder structure</div>
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<div>Main Folder</div>
<div>|- Canada_UrbanMorphology.py</div>
<div>|- geo_em.{domain}.nc</div>
<div>|- INT</div>
<div> |- Home_BC.cpg</div>
<div> |- Home_BC.dbf</div>
<div> |- Home_BC.prj</div>
<div> |- Home_BC.sbn</div>
<div> |- Home_BC.sbx</div>
<div> |- Home_BC.shp</div>
<div> |- Home_BC.shx</div>
<div>|- SHP</div>
<div> |- domain.{domain}.dbf</div>
<div> |- domain.{domain}.prj</div>
<div> |- domain.{domain}.shp</div>
<div> |- domain.{domain}.shx</div>
<div> |- domain.{domain}.fix</div>
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<div>Section 2. Creating a domain shapefile</div>
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<div>0. If you have not yet installed the VERDI program, follow the instructions on https://www.cmascenter.org/verdi/ to obtain the source</div>
<div>code and install it.</div>
<div>1. Open the VERDI program.</div>
<div>2. On the 'Datasets' panel, click on 'add local dataset'.</div>
<div>3. Open the desired geo_em.{domain}.nc file for the desired domain.</div>
<div>4. Double-click on a 2d variable (e.g., LU_INDEX) on the 'Variables' panel.</div>
<div>5. Click on 'Tile Plot.'</div>
<div>6. Click on File > Export as Image/GIS.</div>
<div>7. Change the 'Files of Type' to 'Shapefile (*.shp, *.shx, *.dbf)'.</div>
<div>8. Name the file accordingly (i.e., geo_em.{domain}).</div>
<div>9. Click on Save.</div>
<div>10. Move the saved files to the SHP folder.</div>
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<div>For example, to process the first domain (d01), geo_em filename would be geo_em.d01.nc and the associated file names would be geo_em.d01 with GIS extentions (i.e., *.shp, *.shx, *.dbf)</div>
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<div>Section 3. Required modification to the Python script Canada_UrbanMorphology.py</div>
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<div>1. Adjust the grid names based on the number of nested domains used in the modeling framework (e.g., [d01] for a single domain, or [d01, d02, d03] for a three nested domain framework) in the 'main' function, line 17.</div>
<div>2. Adjust the grid size in meters (e.g., 1000*1000 for a domain with 1 km resolution) in the 'gridsize' function.</div>
<div>3. Check the output in the geo_em file. Due to the conversion of geo_em file to shapefile in the VERDI program, the indexing of grid cells may not be consistent between geo_em files and shapefiles. Therefore, the output after executing the Python script may look flipped (e.g., the downtown which is located in the southeast of the domain may appear in the northwest of the domain). If the output is flipped, follow the instructions on lines 163 - 170. Follow the example in the Python script to adjust the frame output.</div>
<div>4. Use the new geo_em files instead of previous ones for processing metgrid.exe core program in the WPS program.</div>
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<div>Credit: Clair lab (https://cleanairlab.cive.uvic.ca/)</div>
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
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Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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