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All Work and No Play
No full textI took this picture of a playground at Lotus Isle Park. I thought this picture was a great example of inaccessibility to leisure because this playground would not be accessible to people who use wheelchairs. There was no way to get on the toys if you used a wheelchair, and the walking path was covered with roots of trees that would make it extremely difficult for a wheelchair user to get around. What stood out to me about this most is that it is so ordinary. Most playgrounds aren\u27t accessible to wheelchair users (as well as other differently-abled people), which I had never really considered until recently. The normalcy of this should be concerning to us all.
Theme: Accessibility to Rest and Leisure in the Outdoors: Who has the right to rest and where?
Medium: Digital Photography.https://pilotscholars.up.edu/sustainability_photovoice_exhibit/1008/thumbnail.jp
The Rose That Grew From the Tree
No full textWhen I saw this rose, I thought of Tupac Shakur\u27s poem titled The Rose That Grew From Concrete, a poem all about survival. “Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature\u27s law is wrong it learned to walk with out having feet. Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams, it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else ever cared.” Tupac\u27s poem talks about how a rose that grew from the crack in the concrete overcomes all laws of nature; this is especially true in our neoliberal and capitalist society. Industrialization makes it so all beautiful plants are manufactured and planned meticulously. The rose in the picture and Tupac\u27s poem truly makes me realize that to survive in the natural environment is an act of rebellion.
Theme: Nature and Survival: How is the natural environment a place of survival? How do you see resilience and survival in the outdoors?
Medium: Digital Photography.https://pilotscholars.up.edu/sustainability_photovoice_exhibit/1007/thumbnail.jp
The City of Roses
No full textThis weekend, I went and explored Washington Park for a bit. I was immediately stunned at how large the park is - it\u27s 458 acres. I think it\u27s notable that Portland has dedicated this much land to nature - a lot of cities would use this land for economic development and housing. It\u27s nice that decision-makers don\u27t always screw over nature (although they often do). That being said, I\u27m not sure how sustainable Washington Park truly is. To the untrained eye (like mine), this park seems like a great space for people to enjoy nature. These spaces sound like a dedication to sustainability from a decision-making level. However, all of these amenities may not be truly sustainable. The park attracts a lot of foot traffic; some people may not be as dedicated to protecting the land as others and changing the natural layout of the land at all is less sustainable than not changing it in the first place.
Theme: Decision and Policy-Makers and Sustainability: What are consequences of decision-makers and policy-makers in regards to sustainability?
Medium: Digital Photographyhttps://pilotscholars.up.edu/sustainability_photovoice_exhibit/1009/thumbnail.jp
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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