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Città intelligenti” e rifiuti zero. Sfide ambiziose del Giappone del XXI secolo
No full textThis city has shown itself to be a privileged point of interest in developing eco
sustainable strategies. In the “intelligent city,” sustainability is first pursued
through implementing more efficient processes thanks to responsive and proactive
citizens participating in data generation and environmental monitoring. Citizens
become active sensory hubs or, more simply put, “citizen sensors.” Discussing the
eco-sustainable city of Fujisawa, which is 50 km from Tokyo, is a relevant example.
This city deserves highlights regarding its aspects of the flow of energy and mate
rials and its natural cycle of resources. The colossal giant Panasonic obtained au
thorization to proceed with the construction of an entire city based on the label
of eco-sustainability and environmental protection. This major company has al
ways been involved in upgrading projects for the country and joined another ele
ven company partners to clean up a vast area of 19 acres previously occupied by
Panasonic factories. Eventually, they transformed it into the model of a smart city
equipped with 1,000 zero-emission homes.
In this context, my principal objective is to illustrate and analyze how Kamikatsu,
a small village in the Southwest of Japan, is flourishing with the idea of “zero
trash.” The village is located in green rice fields, and mountainous forests on the
western island of Shikoku and has as few as 2,000 inhabitants. In 2003, it took
on this rigorous program for carrying out a crackdown on trash and thereby sup
porting eco-sustainability. At this location, we propose an analysis of eco-sustai
nability in two contexts: one at the urban level and the other at the rural level
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
Efficacy of Oxfendazole and fenbendazole against tortoise (Testudo hermanni) oxyurids
No full textAbstract Thirty-six tortoises (Testudo hermanni) with
naturally acquired oxyurids infections were used to assess
the anthelmintic efficacy of oxfendazole (Dolthene;
Merial) and fenbendazole (Panacur; Hoechst Roussel
Vet). Animals were randomly assigned to three groups (A,
B, and C) based on sex and weight. Animals in group A
(seven males and six females) were orally treated with
oxfendazole at dose rate of 66 mg/kg, group B animals (nine
males and eight females) were orally treated with fenbendazole
at dose rate of 100 mg/kg, and group C animals (three
males and three females) were not treated and served as
controls. All animals were individually stabled in plexiglas
boxes under controlled conditions of temperature, humidity,
and light beginning 7 days pretreatment and continuing for
the duration of the trial. Individual tortoises feces were
examined daily by the McMaster technique and drugs
efficacy was assessed by the fecal eggs count reduction
(FECR) test. Both drugs showed 100% of FECR. However,
oxfendazole reached this level 12 days after treatment,
whereas 31 days after treatment were necessary to obtain the
same stable result with fenbendazole. The two drugs were
well tolerated by all the animals and no adverse reactions
were observed after treatment
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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