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Human-elephant conflict characteristics in Ulu Tembeling region / Mohd Ruzed Embong
No full textHuman-Elephant Conflicts (HEC) becomes a major concern among natural resources managers. The numbers of HEC reported each year contribute to thousands of ringgit of loses to local farmers who depend on agriculture as their main income. Being an agriculture region in Pahang, Ulu Tembeling is facing HEC thus pressuring local community to sustain their income. Being geographically marginalized, the problems arise and worsen when HEC cases were not attended accordingly and the intensity of the conflict has never been measured. This thesis is conducted in order to identify the extent of the HEC throughout the Ulu Tembeling region. Spatial distributions of the conflicts are charted in order to establish the exact spatial distribution and thus help resources managers toward planning and managing the natural resources. Data were collected through Snow Ball Sampling technique and supported by ground trotting for verification. Spatial data were located and plotted onto topographical map and questionnaire survey forms were designed based on Data Collection and Analysis Protocol for HEC by International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)-African Elephant Specialist Group. Descriptive analyses were employed to quantify the extent of the HEC therefore providing crucial information for Ulu Tembeling HEC. The study found that the intensity of the conflict amounted to RM 54,040.00 of loss during a one year study period; representing 26.25 % of trees damage which affected incomes of individuals who are barely above poverty line. Spatial distributions of the conflict found most to be concentrated at Kampung Sat and Kampung Mat Daling and perhaps crop raiding elephant entry point were from nearest forest reserve complex which are located next to victims rubber plantation. HEC was found to be intense among a female and calf herd which is correlated with intermediate rubber plant stage, perhaps due to crop palatability compared to other stages while most intense HEC was during the night with duration less than three days, most of HEC has been found to occur during the dry season. Elephants, resources and victims involved in the conflict pose particular characteristics which provide a clearer understanding toward HEC in Ulu Tembeling region. Existence of reliable HEC record and data are useful for wildlife and resource managers dealing with increasing human-wildlife conflicts. It is recommended that DIu Tembeling region to have a standardized data record on HEC so the issues can be resolved appropriately
Living Conditions in Orang Asli Resettlement Project (PROSDET) of Pantos, Pahang, Malaysia
No full textAbstractThis paper examines the living conditions of 183 Orang Asli (aborigines) of six villages who were resettled at Program Bersepadu Daerah Terpencil (PROSDET), Pantos in Kuala Medang, Pahang, Malaysia. The research aims to analyze the resettlement project and to determine if it has improved affected Orang Asli's livelihood and quality of life. Household survey, descriptive analysis, observations and physical analysis of the settlements were used in this research. The findings disclosed dissatisfactions among Orang Asli for reasons which mainly related to their livelihood, traditional lifestyle and culture. The paper provides recommendations to ensure better future resettlement programs for Orang Asli
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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