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Sustainable design: rattan for office green furniture / Muhammad Muizzuddin Darus
No full textThis report writing explains and discusses the environmental issues about sustainable design. The researcher focuses on the sustainable material which is Rattan. Rattan is a very good material mainly because it is lightweight, durable and to a certain extent flexible which can be shaped into any free form compared to other sustainable materials. The keywords of this topic divided into four which are Sustainable design, Rattan, Rattan Furniture Design and Office Green Environment. The researcher will explain in depth these four keywords in this report writing. The main problem and issue regarding this topic is Malaysian rattan furniture craft tends to be bulky which waste materials to make certain product or craft. This problem will effect and create problem of the availability of the raw materials. So, the purpose of this study is to design functional form of rattan for Office Green Furniture without wasting rattan raw materials and the same time maintain our traditional identity in line with the modern furniture design
Temporary evacuation and relief centre design management in Malaysia: an overview / Ruwaidy Mat Rasul and Muhammad Muizzuddin Darus
Full text linkThe study mainly focuses on natural disaster temporary evacuation and relief centre design management which highlights on the monsoon floods in Malaysia as a case study. Currently, the type of evacuation centre that has been practiced is often referred to government or public facilities, such as mosques, schools, churches or even community halls. The after affect of every event is devastating which leaves the building in a state of destructions of property, garbage and sewerage system is clogged. On the other hand, the location wise is far most important in order to cater for accessibility of victims and rescuing team. Using interviews and observations as data collection methods, it is assured that the natural disaster situation of temporary evacuation system requires improvements in order to facilitate the victims, rescuers or
to salvage public property. Nevertheless, Non-Governmental Organizations always provide temporary tents or shelters, of which that only focuses on some part of the needs; the resting place. This is however is not enough considering the situations of the victims from various family sizes and ages such as toddlers and senior citizens. Apart from foods and warm resting shelter, medication is a priority in order to accommodate the needy; physically and emotionally. With that, the inflatable type of shelter which is portable and easy to assemble and install is recommended. As a result, it leads towards the design management which needed to be considered such as; safe zone area, shelter management, hygienic system and accessibility for land or/and air transportation. The ‘togetherness’ concept under one roof makes a situation more manageable especially in such difficult and stressful time. Thus, a few recommendation plans with a conceptual size of required area has been suggested. All these plans have similar temporary evacuation and relief centre management system with different plan
arrangements. Moreover, these portable temporary shelters can be kept at any local Fire and Rescue Department or any District Police Station as it would be logistically more convenient. Most of the victims hope that the temporary evacuation centre will provide them good facilities and basic comfort. Being emotionally affected, they also need a proper medication and attention. Natural disasters never discriminate any gender or ages as it will cause suffers and tortures who ever that may be involved
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
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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