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Hay Days: management of floodplain meadows for sustainable hay production
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Hay Days: Management of floodplain meadows for sustainable hay production
Get PDFFloodplain meadows can provide a sustainable, low-input agricultural crop, whilst simultaneously supporting botanical diversity of some 40 species per square metre. High nutrient inputs from flood-deposited sediments would lead to decreasing botanical diversity through competitive exclusion unless balanced by removal of nutrients via an annual hay crop and this continued management is essential to their survival.
The timing of haymaking can be contentious. Date restrictions under agri-environment schemes introduced in the 1980s delay harvest from midsummer to mid-July, aimed at protecting ground-nesting birds. Advancing seasons and increasingly unpredictable weather make the use of calendar dates for timing of land-management interventions unreliable. This study tests the use of accumulated thermal time as an alternative metric and finds that the relationship between date and thermal time has advanced by two weeks since the 1980s, which may lead to declining botanical diversity due to influences on nutrient cycling. These delayed cutting dates are also perceived to result in a crop of lower nutritional value compared to hay that is cut earlier, devaluing the crop.
Limited data have been available on aboveground nutrient dynamics in floodplain systems to enable informed decision-making. This study provides data on how nutritive value changes during the growing season, demonstrating that floodplain-meadow hay with a balance of graminoids and forbs offers good broad-spectrum nutrition for most livestock. Double-cutting also presents an opportunity for nutrient removal, which can contribute to nutrient-neutrality targets. Nutrition is found to decline more slowly than in intensively produced grass hay and a second harvest in the autumn has comparable nutritive value to a midsummer cut.
A mixed methods design combines experimental field data with land-manager perspectives to ensure recommendations are practical for on-farm use. Study findings can form the basis of a decision-making framework to balance agricultural production with important environmental and socioeconomic considerations
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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