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NetLogo model used to discuss strategies in Somie, Cameroon
No full text<p>John Fell OxGame project</p>
<p>http://blogs.it.ox.ac.uk/modelling4all/oxgame/</p>
<p>Asking questions can be problematic, particularly when there are disparities of outlook, education and nationality. Asking hypothetical questions and considering future scenarios is particularly difficult when working with, for example, rural African farmers (however we suggest such questions are problematic everywhere).</p>
<p>Participatory computer modelling is a technique that has been used to help researchers and communities understand issue and envisage future solutions in these contexts. We propose to use the Modelling4All software to build a toolkit that can be used to construct a diverse range of agent-based computer models with farmers, researchers and policy-makers in Cameroon. Specifically we will focus on climate adaptation strategies with respect to crop selection.</p>
<p>We aim to gain a better understanding of how computer models can be built that enable local participants to consider the status quo, gain insights into how to recover from crises, and envisage the future. In particular we will focus on the design and use of game-like elements that enable participants to express a deep understanding of their world through the way they interact with the model. We want to understand how immersive and playful computing environment can be used to generate meaningful research data and support climate adaptation strategies in Cameroon.</p>
<p>The Modelling4All software allows us to quickly create advanced and transparent agent-based computer models but with fairly modest graphical production values. In the future we hope to create models using more visually appealing platforms such as Lincity, HTML5 and Javascript, and interaction using small mobile devices.</p>
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<li><strong>Start date</strong>: December 2012</li>
<li><strong>Duration</strong>: 12 months</li>
<li><strong>Project team</strong>: Prof. David Zeitlyn, Howard Noble and Ken Kahn</li>
<li><strong>Collaborations</strong>: The project team is working closely with researchers at Yaounde and Dchang University in Cameroon, and the Stockholm Environment Institute.</li>
<li>Read the project blog</li>
<li>ICT SEM Workshop report</li>
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No Vacation from Citation
No full textHaving just added the 10,000th reference to his personal bibliographic file, David Zeitlyn reflects on the joys and annoyances of avoiding looking like a fool
Words and Processes in Mambila Kinship: The Theoretical Importance of the Complexity of Everyday Life
No full textWords and Processes in Mambila Kinship presents a set of studies of the way that Mambila speakers in Cameroon talk about themselves and their kin. Author David Zeitlyn employs conversational analytic methods to further the study of kinship terminologies. This book takes an important step toward a new synthesis between the practice of ethnography and the study of language while presenting African natural language data (still rare in mainstream linguistics) in an accessible format
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
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