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Assessing the population of grey peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron bicalcaratum) in a Southeast Asian conservation landscape
No full textThunhikorn, Somying, Grainger, Matthew J, Savini, Philip Jk McGowan Tommaso (2016): Assessing the population of grey peacock-pheasant (Polyplectron bicalcaratum) in a Southeast Asian conservation landscape. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 64: 302-312, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.535541
Fig. 2 in The threat of free-ranging domestic dog to native wildlife: implication for conservation in Southeast Asia
Full text linkFig. 2. Percentage perceived risk in Red List categories. Height of peaks represent number of species scaled to 2, see Supplementary Materials 4 and 5.Published as part of Marshall, Holly Elizabeth, Grainger, Matthew, Sukumal, Niti & Savini, Tommaso, 2022, The threat of free-ranging domestic dog to native wildlife: implication for conservation in Southeast Asia, pp. 275-288 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 70 on page 280, DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2022-0012, http://zenodo.org/record/717494
Model Development and Data Protocol
Full text linkThe generation of food waste stems from a complex set of interacting behaviours of both food consumers and suppliers. Therefore, a complete approach to the problem requires an analysis of both sources of waste. Both Agent Based Models and Bayesian Networks provide a modelling approach that fits this purpose, since they allow the study of complex systems. WP4 of the REFRESH project implements a behavioural economics approach in order to identify and measure the most important socio-economic conditions and potential policy interventions driving businesses’ and consumers’ choices in the generation of food waste. More specifically WP4 aims to provide new information on consumer and business behaviour by measuring the effects of major tangible factors of food waste, by identifying hidden and emerging profiles of consumer’ and business’ behaviours affecting food waste, and by allowing the detection of intangible food waste drivers. Such an objective is achieved through the development and the testing of Agent-Based Models (ABMs) and Bayesian networks (BNs). The report is structured as follows: Chapter 3 defines what a model is and the modelling approaches that will be utilized within REFRESH WP4. Chapters 4 and 5 illustrate the characteristics of ABMs and BNs. Chapter 6 outlines an ABM aimed at assessing the adoption of innovations for preventing or reducing the food waste generated by companies of the retail sector. Chapter 7 outlines a BN for characterizing consumers’ behaviour with respect to food waste. Chapter 8 anticipates potential modes of interaction between ABMs and BNs. Chapter 9 identifies a number of good practices to ensure effective data management and facilitate data exchange
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
D4.2 - Model development and data protocol
Full text linkThe generation of food waste stems from a complex set of interacting behaviours of both food consumers and suppliers. Therefore, a complete approach to the problem requires an analysis of both sources of waste. Both Agent Based Models and Bayesian Networks provide a modelling approach that fits this purpose, since they allow the study of complex systems.
WP4 of the REFRESH project implements a behavioural economics approach in order to identify and measure the most important socio-economic conditions and potential policy interventions driving businesses’ and consumers’ choices in the generation of food waste. More specifically WP4 aims to provide new information on consumer and business behaviour by measuring the effects of major tangible factors of food waste, by identifying hidden and emerging profiles of consumer’ and business’ behaviours affecting food waste, and by allowing the detection of intangible food waste drivers. Such an objective is achieved through the development and the testing of Agent-Based Models (ABMs) and Bayesian networks (BNs).
The report is structured as follows:
Chapter 3 defines what a model is and the modelling approaches that will be utilized within REFRESH WP4.
Chapters 4 and 5 illustrate the characteristics of ABMs and BNs.
Chapter 6 outlines an ABM aimed at assessing the adoption of innovations for preventing or reducing the food waste generated by companies of the retail sector.
Chapter 7 outlines a BN for characterizing consumers’ behaviour with respect to food waste.
Chapter 8 anticipates potential modes of interaction between ABMs and BNs.
Chapter 9 identifies a number of good practices to ensure effective data management and facilitate data exchange
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
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