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The development of green construction site index
Get PDFThe development of construction industry in Indonesia has been substantially contributing to the enhancement of social and economy of the country. However, its expansion may also give negative effects to the environment if the practices of implementing the construction project neglected the rules and regulations of sustainable construction concept. The aim of this study is to develop Green Construction Site Index (GCSI) with the consideration of assessing the staff commitment level on the implementation of the sustainable construction practices. Therefore, Project Organizational Commitment Index (POCI) is also developed. Data were collected by on site direct observation, distribution of questionnaire and interview with key personnel and project documentation review. All the data were tabulated and analyzed by using descriptive elaboration method. The development of GCSI and POCI was based on the opinion and validation of selective experts in the importance of sustainable elements in construction by using Average Index Analysis. Evaluations of GCSI and POCI have been conducted toward ten selected construction projects in Indonesia. The findings have revealed that the overall GCSI value of all ten construction projects was 3.39 which indicated that level of sustainability was in a good category. Meanwhile, the POCI value of all the projects was 3.31 showing that the commitment level of staffs in implementing the sustainable construction project practices was also in a good category. The result shows and proves that the establishment of GCSI and POCI were able to be used to assess level of sustainability construction project in the perspective of project progress and level of staff commitment. It shows that the capability of GCSI and POCI in assessing level of sustainability construction project, based on sustainability concept of construction project. In conclusions, GCSI and POCI are beneficial and suitable to be used in measuring level of sustainability in construction project by respective construction stakeholders like government bodies, local authorities and contractor
Karakteristik dan Komposisi Limbah (Construction Waste) pada Pembangunan Proyek Konstruksi
Get PDFIndustri konstruksi menjadi sektor yang signifikan untuk meningkatkan pertumbuhan perekonomian. Aktifitas perekonomian di hampir semua negara berkaitan erat dengan industri konstruksi. Di sisi lain, industri konstruksi menjadi salah satu kontributor utama dari dampak negatif terhadap lingkungan, karena tingginya jumlah limbah yang dihasilkan dari konstruksi, baik karena pekerjaan renovasi, pembongkaran ataupun kegiatan yang berhubungan dengan konstruksi (HH Lau & A.Whyte 2007). Yahya, K. & Boussabaine, AH (2004) menyatakan bahwa limbah yang dihasilkan dari pembangunan dan pembongkaran memiliki dampak yang signifikan terhadap lingkungan. Mereka juga menyatakan, industri konstruksi adalah salah satu pencemar lingkungan terbesar. Maka upaya melakukan pengukuran dan menganalisis dampak lingkungan dari limbah yang dihasilkan dari kegiatan lokasi konstruksi menjadi sangat urgen. Telah banyak peneliti menyelidiki tentang limbah konstruksi sebelumnya. Makalah ini akan menjelaskan tentang trend limbah konstruksi yang dihasilkan oleh aktifitas industri berikut dengan karakteristik dan komposisi dari masa ke masa dari berbagai belahan dunia.Kata kunci : construction waste, limbah konstruksi, trend, lokasi proyek konstruks
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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