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Aiming for zero waste: The ZeroWIN approach
No full textZero waste is a unifying concept for a range of measures aimed at eliminating waste and allowing us to challenge old ways of thinking. Aiming for zero waste will mean viewing waste as a potential resource with value to be realised, rather than as a problem to be dealt with. But zero waste will not happen overnight…<br/
Editorial. The role and contribution of the third sector in terms of waste management and resource recovery
No full textThird sector organisations (TSOs) make a valuable contribution to waste management and resource recovery in many areas across Europe. This is often hidden because due to the nature of TSOs, their value is not quantified, reported and publicised. As a consequence, their contribution to local, national and international regions in terms of supporting civil society, alleviating poverty and recovering value from resources is not properly recognised or appreciated. From the examples given below, it is clear that third sector involvement almost always moves waste and resource management up the waste hierarchy from disposal to recovery and reuse. [Note that TSOs should not be confused with the informal sector, which refers to “individuals or enterprises who are….not sponsored, financed, recognised or allowed by the formal waste authorities, or who operate in violation of or in completion with formal authorities.]Third sector organisations are driven by the need to supply to low-cost household items to people in hardship; such items include furniture, electrical equipment (e.g. computers, mobile phones, cookers and microwaves), textiles (clothing and bedding), foodstuffs and children’s books/toys. They also provide opportunities for long-term unemployed and other socially-excluded individuals to gain practical skills and re-engage with society, and for anyone to volunteer for the overall benefit of civil society.Many TSOs are regarded as social enterprises – in order to achieve their social objectives, which also carry environmental improvements, they contribute to service provision in certain areas. Being not-for-profit and having a low cost workforce (a high proportion of trainees and volunteers) enables them to operate competitively with public and private sector services – realising triple bottom-line (TBL) benefits (N.B. the TBL is a framework for encouraging institutional concern about sustainability and incorporates the 3P’s – people, planet and profit
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
Integrating Two Measures of Quality Practice into Clinical and Practical Legal Education Assessment: Good client interviewing and effective community legal education
Get PDFCopyright Information: Copyright (c) 2014 Liz Curran, Tony Foley. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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