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An interdisciplinary approach for introducing sustainable integrated solid waste management system in developing countries: the case of La Paz (Bolivia)
No full textSolid waste management (SWM) has become one of the most difficult environmental and political issue in developing countries worldwide. The increase of diseases from uncollected waste, inadequate
informal collection and/or waste open dumps are only few unsustainable practices that affect low income countries population health. The international cooperation between developing and developed
countries can be an affordable solution in order to implement new recycling policies and environmental sustainability. In fact, the lack of management instruments and insufficient monitoring and accounting
can be solved by introducing long term processes and by involving all local institutions. However, this challenge includes several social, economic, environmental aspects, and implies the development of
technical abilities in many disciplines. This article moves from a field research work aimed to develop sustainable integrated waste management policies. That has been made possible by applying university
international agreements and public-private partnerships. The work took place in the Bolivian capital city (La Paz), with the direct collaboration of three Universities (University of Trento – DICAM, Major
University of S.Andrés – IIDEPROQ, Salesian University of La Paz). During the field study the NGO Swisscontact and the La Paz Municipal Government were involved. They helped to investigate directly city waste management daily difficulties. Furthermore, an Italian waste recycling company (EliteAmbiente) has been involved in the project, in order to estimate the process cost and the management needs for introduce a recycling industry. The process is going to continue with an enlargement of the working group and with other agreements that will involve other institutions. The main issues are widely discussed in order to explain the advantages and the difficulties that have been found while implementing this integrated process. Moreover, the methods to implement the study are focused and some future objectives are presented
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
Coastal vulnerability assessment: through regional to local downscaling of wave characteristics along the Bay of Lalzit (Albania)
Full text linkCoastal vulnerability is
evaluated against inundation risk triggered by wave run-up through the
evaluation of vulnerability levels (referred to as VLs) introduced by
Bosom and Jiménez (2011). VLs are assessed through different wave climate
characterizations, referring to regional (offshore wave climate) or local
(nearshore wave climate) scales. The study is set along the Bay of Lalzit, a
coastal area near Durrës (Albania). The analysis reveals that the results
vary due to uncertainties inherent in the run-up estimation, showing that the
computational procedure should be developed by taking into account detailed
information about the local wave climate. Different approaches in choosing
wave characteristics for run-up estimation significantly affect the estimate
of shoreline vulnerability. The analysis also shows the feasibility and
challenges of applying VL estimates in contexts characterized by limited data
availability through targeted field measurements of the coast geomorphology
and an overall understanding of the recent coastal dynamics and related
controlling factors.</p
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