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Science Transcending Boundaries: The Roles of Gender, Power, and Place in Community-Based Research and Adaptive Capacity
No full textThe civil conflict in Liberia, in West Africa, caused significant social, infrastructural, and ecological changes across the country (1989-2003). Reconstructing the agricultural sector, with attention to the needs of women farmers, has been one of the government’s priorities for national recovery and development. In light of this initiative, a transdisciplinary study in north-central Liberia was conducted to investigate smallholder farmer challenges, access to resources, and household agency. Further, the study explores the potential for agricultural extension services to address the identified limitations toward greater farmer adaptive capacity and gender equality. Lastly, an adapted version of the Feminist Systems Thinking framework is used to carry out an introspection and process reflection of the Liberia project. The results of this dissertation advance knowledge of how extension services can improve connection between rural and urban populations, transform local gender contracts, and build farmer adaptive capacity in the Liberian study area, with lessons for other post-conflict settings. It also provides guidance for researchers, especially working in remote or post-conflict settings, to plan for and adapt to challenges that arise in inter and transdisciplinary research processes.doctoral, Ph.D., Water Resources -- University of Idaho - College of Graduate Studies, 2019-1
Public Participation and Water Management in the European Union: Experiences and Lessons Learned
No full textDepto. de Geodinámica, Estratigrafía y PaleontologíaFac. de Ciencias GeológicasTRUEpu
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
Paradise Creek and the Clean Water Act: History, Law, Management Science, and Policy
No full textThe 1972 Clean Water Act is the primary law for water quality protection in the United States. The Clean Water Act has been recognized as successful in limiting point source pollutants, yet the nonprofit protections are often criticized as ineffective. Nationally 42,457 waters are currently listed as impaired, mostly due to nonpoint pollution. Much of the criticism of nonpoint pollution protection focuses on the lack of mandatory regulation without study of current implementation to determine if management adjustments might also provide a solution. This thesis examines the implementation of the nonpoint source provisions of the CWA in Paradise Creek located in the Inland-Northwest of Idaho and Washington, illustrating that understanding of legacy effects, establishing a longer planning horizon, and resources to implement more extensive monitoring and adjustment of implementation accordingly, will lead to significant improvements in implementation.Thesis (M.S., Water Resources) -- University of Idaho, 201
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
The Measure of Indian Water Rights: The Arizona Homeland Standard, Gila River Adjudication
Full text linkOn November 26, 2001, the Arizona Supreme Court concluded that Indian reservations were established as homelands. By articulating a homeland standard for the measure of reserved water rights based on tribal economic development plans, cultural needs, and historic water uses, the Arizona Supreme Court has eliminated many of the blatant inequities plaguing the current approach to Indian water rights quantification. Nevertheless, there are concerns with wholesale adoption of the Arizona standard, including the effect on those who have devoted resources in reliance on the previous standard, the introduction of uncertainty in the method of quantification, and the impact on federal funding. Courts may address these concerns by retaining the current practicably irrigable standard for quantification of the agricultural water right, and by turning to experience gained in settlement processes to quantify other aspects of a homeland water right. The effect of the standard on the method for calculation of federal funding to develop Indian water highlights the need to change that method to reflect the obligation to provide the water infrastructure necessary to render a reservation a home
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
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