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Exploring Temporal Phases of Wildfire Adaptation: Experiences Across Socially Diverse Communities
No full textThe increasing frequency and size of wildfire events across the United States and their subsequent impacts on populations living in fire-prone landscapes indicate an urgent need to strengthen community efforts to adapt to fire. Communities in the wildland-urban interface may take vastly different approaches to address wildfire risk, complicating the adoption and implementation of many policy and management efforts. Developing a stronger understanding of how varying community-wildfire interactions may change and evolve over time can offer insights about the enduring social legacies of wildfire risk and their implications for wildfire management. This dissertation presents three studies in four different communities across the Western United States designed to investigate social dimensions of wildfire before, during, and after wildfire events, including: (1) Community recovery and extra-local assistance after a large fire; (2) The influence of pre-fire and event-based cues on intended evacuation behavior; and (3) Support for regulatory approaches to wildfire risk reduction in two rural communities. I use a range of qualitative and quantitative methods to explore how communities can or are adapting to wildfire at different ‘phases’ in the duration of a wildfire’s lifespan. Each chapter concludes with a discussion of implications or recommendations for wildfire risk management in the wildland-urban interface. These efforts can inform proactive approaches to policy design and management implementation that can better support communities at different points in time and in different local contexts.doctoral, Ph.D., Natural Resources -- University of Idaho - College of Graduate Studies, 2018-1
Forest Fridays: Leveraging Land Manager-Educator Partnerships to Overcome Barriers to Outdoor Environmental Education
Full text linkLand manager-educator partnerships provide opportunities to overcome barriers associated with outdoor and environmental education within the United States’ K-12 education system. This case study reviews the design and implementation of a novel outdoor environmental education program for kindergartners called Forest Fridays that involved half-day excursions to a local forest. Forest Fridays emerged from a unique partnership between three kindergarten teachers and a forest manager in Flagstaff, Arizona that removed resource and planning barriers in order to facilitate program establishment and operation. Immersive observation and informal program review with the program coordinators informed recommendations that may support the establishment of similar partnerships and programs elsewhere
Using Survey IDs to Enhance Survey Research and Administration (post-print)
No full textSurvey IDs are short strings of unique characters assigned to each recipient in a sample population. Extension research can benefit from the improved organization of survey implementation and data collection, better researcher-respondent communication, and reduced survey material costs supported through the use of survey IDs. This article outlines how survey IDs can provide a more efficient approach to survey administration and data management and includes suggestions about overcoming some limitations of survey IDs. Best practices for creating and using survey IDs when organizing and administering survey research also are suggested.Survey IDs (also known as unique identifiers, participant IDs, or geocodes) are short strings of characters assigned to each questionnaire recipient in a survey sample population. Extension professionals can use survey IDs when conducting reserch to improve communication, reduce costs, and increase organization, thereby streamlining the survey administration process for both themselves and respondents. Using IDs in survey research and administration is common, but there is a shortage of information about effective approaches to doing so. Appropriate use of survey IDs, benefits and challenges to their implementation, and recommendations regarding their application are provided herein and are informed by the experience of administering a mixed-mode survey of approximately 2,700 households in Valley County, ID
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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