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Why Do We Need to Coordinate When Classifying Kin?
No full textWe suggest that there are two coordination games when it comes to understanding kin terminology. Jones’ article focuses on the linguistic coordination inherent in developing meaningful kin terminologies, alluding briefly to the benefits of these kin terminologies for coordination in other domains. We enhance Jones’ discussion by tracing the links between the structure of kin terminologies and their functions.Open peer commentary on: Jones, Doug. "Human Kinship, From Conceptual Structure to Grammar." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 33, no. 5 (2010): 367-416.Peer reviewe
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Net Values: Social and Economic Impacts of the Oregon Marine Reserves on the Fishing Communities of Garibaldi, Depoe Bay, and Port Orford
Get PDFNet Values is an Environmental Arts & Humanities thesis that centers around a research project of the same name. The research examines individual fishers’ perceptions of adverse economic and social impacts resulting from shifted fishing effort caused by the Oregon Marine Reserves, and looks to understand how fishers use their social values to communicate potential social impacts. These impacts were assessed through two distinct research agendas: 1) Affected Individual Fishers’ Perceptions of the Marine Reserve Economic Impacts, and 2) Affected Individual Fishers’ Social Value Perceptions in Relation to Identity, Occupation, and the Marine Reserves. Data for both research agendas were collected simultaneously through in-person interviews during the summer and fall of 2021. Ten interviews were conducted with fishers, who identified themselves as fishermen, from Garibaldi, Depoe Bay, and Port Orford. Interviews were analyzed to answer the questions outlined by both research agendas and five key findings emerged from each. These ten total findings were then synthesized to establish three comprehensive and critical findings. These three findings include: 1) fishermen perceive negative social and economic impacts, but appear more concerned about positive impacts they have not experienced or potential negative ones in the future, 2) their priorities of social or economic values are important to consider and complex, and 3) their social values contextualize perceived impacts from, and perceptions of, the marine reserves. The resulting thesis is presented in three parts:1) an introduction from the author describing the community and personal context of the research, 2) the research project presented as an agency report submitted to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, and 3) a conclusion from the author reflecting on his situatedness within the findings and process of the research project itself
Different behavioral responses to potential dangers while foraging in Sciurus carolinensis
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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
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Tilt&Gerkey-GEC-1.do
No full textThis is the data set used for the analysis in the paper "Dams and Population Displacement on China’s Upper Mekong River: Implications for Social Capital and Social-Ecological Resilience." In 2010, in collaboration with Chinese colleagues, we administered a household survey questionnaire to 729 households in more than 30 villages across Fengqing, Yun, and Lancang counties in Yunnan Province, China.
Because of our specific interest in agriculture and social capital for this paper, we restricted the sample in our analysis to include only those households who reported participating in farming activities during the previous 12 months, removing 56 households. We also removed an additional 201 households who had not participated in at least some labor exchange during the previous 12 months, on the assumption that their farming practices were different, less reliant on labor exchange. Our final sample thus contained 472 households in the vicinity of four dam sites (Manwan=143, Dachaoshan=106, Xiaowan=150, Nuozhadu=73).
This data set includes information on our independent variables (resettlement status, dam site), dependent variables (exchange of financial resources -- both number of households and amounts; and exchange of farm labor -- both number of households and amounts), and control variables (land holdings, ethnicity, and income)
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Household Survey Data 2010: Dams and Population Displacement on China’s Upper Mekong River
No full textThis is the data set used for the analysis in the paper "Dams and Population Displacement on China’s Upper Mekong River: Implications for Social Capital and Social-Ecological Resilience." In 2010, in collaboration with Chinese colleagues, we administered a household survey questionnaire to 729 households in more than 30 villages across Fengqing, Yun, and Lancang counties in Yunnan Province, China.
Because of our specific interest in agriculture and social capital for this paper, we restricted the sample in our analysis to include only those households who reported participating in farming activities during the previous 12 months, removing 56 households. We also removed an additional 201 households who had not participated in at least some labor exchange during the previous 12 months, on the assumption that their farming practices were different, less reliant on labor exchange. Our final sample thus contained 472 households in the vicinity of four dam sites (Manwan=143, Dachaoshan=106, Xiaowan=150, Nuozhadu=73).
This data set includes information on our independent variables (resettlement status, dam site), dependent variables (exchange of financial resources -- both number of households and amounts; and exchange of farm labor -- both number of households and amounts), and control variables (land holdings, ethnicity, and income)
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Tilt_Gerkey_DamSurveyData.xlsx
No full textThis is the data set used for the analysis in the paper "Dams and Population Displacement on China’s Upper Mekong River: Implications for Social Capital and Social-Ecological Resilience." In 2010, in collaboration with Chinese colleagues, we administered a household survey questionnaire to 729 households in more than 30 villages across Fengqing, Yun, and Lancang counties in Yunnan Province, China.
Because of our specific interest in agriculture and social capital for this paper, we restricted the sample in our analysis to include only those households who reported participating in farming activities during the previous 12 months, removing 56 households. We also removed an additional 201 households who had not participated in at least some labor exchange during the previous 12 months, on the assumption that their farming practices were different, less reliant on labor exchange. Our final sample thus contained 472 households in the vicinity of four dam sites (Manwan=143, Dachaoshan=106, Xiaowan=150, Nuozhadu=73).
This data set includes information on our independent variables (resettlement status, dam site), dependent variables (exchange of financial resources -- both number of households and amounts; and exchange of farm labor -- both number of households and amounts), and control variables (land holdings, ethnicity, and income)
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