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The problem of corrugator sequencing and its impact on packaging processes
No full textThis report presents the result of an initial step towards an interdisciplinary research partnership between the involved departments at Aleppo and Lund University. The initiator and main author, Dr. Ayman Hamadeh, visited Division of Packaging Logistics during the summer 2008. During that time the authors identified corrugator sequencing as a common research field and embarked on a joint explorative study aiming to identify future research projects within the shared problem area
Sustainable improvement of small ruminant production in the semi-arid areas of Lebanon
No full textSmall ruminant production in semi-arid areas could be improved drastically by overcoming feed, health and management constraints. This study aimed at assessing the bio-economical sustainability of small ruminant production in the semi-arid regions of Lebanon through the introduction of an integrated technical package including: a basic health preventive program, feed optimization during critical late gestation period and finally, a basic selection program. Seventeen herders were divided into four groups: Groups A and B were given the full technical package with either soybean and corn meal or barley supplements, respectively. Group C received a basic preventive health program only and Group D was considered the control group. Bio-economic data were collected on a monthly basis over one year and submitted to a cost benefit analysis. Feed cost and pasture rent represented the major obstacles to productivity and contributed 53percent and 33percent, respectively, to the total financial cost. Groups A and B showed better financial revenues than groups C and D, with Group A having the highest return and lowest risk in terms of total expenditure and total revenue variances. It may be concluded that the integration of preventive health, feed optimization, and basic selection into one program could improve the economical sustainability of small ruminant production systems in semi-arid areas. © 2005 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved.[Anonymous], 1985, NUTR REQUIREMENTS DO; BISTANJI G, 1999, THESIS AM U BEIRUT B; Bradford G. E., 1988, Increasing small ruminant productivity in semi-arid areas. Proceedings of a workshop held at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, Aleppo, Syria, 30 November to 3 December 1987., P95; CAPPER BS, 1990, ROLE FOOD LEGUME STR, V38, P151; CHEMA S, 1993, COST EFFECTIVE DIS C, V107, P157; ECONOMIDES S, 1995, TECHNICAL B, V174, P12; ECONOMIDES S, 1987, FAO ANIMAL PRODUCTIO, V54, P59; FITZHUGH HA, 1987, FAO ANIMAL PRODUCTIO, V54, P1; FRESCO LO, 1997, P INT C LIV ENV ED W; GEADAH S, 1998, RECENT EC DEV, V124; HAMADEH S, 1997, SURVEY SMALL RUMINAN, P362; Hamadeh SK, 2001, SMALL RUMINANT RES, V40, P41, DOI 10.1016-S0921-4488(00)00210-8; Hamadeh SK, 1996, SMALL RUMINANT RES, V21, P173, DOI 10.1016-0921-4488(95)00831-4; HAMMAD RM, 1995, THESIS AM U BEIRUT B; *IFAD, 1991, NEAR E N AFR DIV PRO, P182; MCCRACKEN JA, 1988, INTRO RAPID RURAL AP, P8; NAYGAARD DF, 1988, INCREASING SMALL RUM, P37; NORDBLOM TL, 1995, 2 ICARDA, P55; NORMAN DW, 1995, FAO FARM SYSTEMS M V, V10; OSMAN AE, 1992, EXP AGR, V28, P461, DOI 10.1017-S0014479700020172; QURESHI AW, 1993, FAO ANIMAL PRODUCTIO, V107, P1; QURESHI AW, 1987, FAO ANIMAL PRODUCTIO, V54, P21; Steinbach J., 1988, Increasing small ruminant productivity in semi-arid areas. Proceedings of a workshop held at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, Aleppo, Syria, 30 November to 3 December 1987., P123; STEINBACH J, 1987, FAO ANIMAL PRODUCTIO, V54, P13; STEINFELD H, 1998, WORLD BANK INT C, P27; THOMSON EF, 1987, ICARDA106 INT CTR AG, P20; TURNER HN, 1986, ANIMAL PRODUCTION HL, V58, P1211
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Food Wars
No full textPhilip McGregor is so fat that everyone either stares or sniggers as he passes by. At school he goes by the name of Porky. The day he collapses in the school canteen and is rushed to the hospital marks the start of his new life. He's drawn to the hospital garden where a sunflower beckons him to come close and listen; it has a secret to impart to him, a secret that will empower and lead him to seven other teenagers from different continents who are each escaping their own conflicts, troubles caused by the dangerous lack of food security that threatens the future of the Earth. The kids are unexpectedly entrusted with secrets communicated magically by the Earth itself—through plants, animals, and birds. As Keepers, they are led to make incredible, yet precarious journeys, unaware of their destination, but the Food Masters are hot on their heels, ready to kill to keep those secrets hidden ...
Can You Make a Pet of Him Like a Bird or Put Him on a Leash For Your Girls? : Rana Hamadeh
No full textCatalog of the exhibition Can You Make a Pet of Him Like a Bird or Put Him on a Leash For Your Girls by Rana Hamadeh
Variations on the Author
No full text“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
No full textWe 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
No full textWe 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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