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Romanian Wood Industry: Privatisation Facts
No full textPrivatisation of the wood and forestry industries in Romania was slow due to the relative inefficiency of the state versus markets and private property in the allocation of resources. State intervention was implemented on the grounds of market failure and the lack of incentives in the absence of clearly defined property rights. In these circumstances, it was necessary for the Romanian government to adopt a pragmatic approach and this is examined in this article
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The Impacts of Livestock Grazing on Plant Communities and Soil Structure in Semi-natural Norway Spruce Stands (Picea abies (L.) Karsten) in the Piatra Craiului Massif
No full textThis study seeks to establish the impacts of sheep grazing on soil structure, the natural regeneration of Norway spruce, biomass production (dry mass), and the variation in vegetation composition in the Piatra Craiului nature reserve, Romania
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Artificial Intelligence and Sustainable Practices in Coastal Marinas: A Comparative Study of Monaco and Ibiza
No full textAspects of Romanian forestry: the case for community forest management in the Piatra Craiului Massif
No full textForests, Trees & Livelihoods Vol. 12 (4) 2002 In Romania human pressure on forest resources and fiscal constraints are making it increasingly difficult for the Romanian Forestry Commission to control and protect the forests. National democratisation and decentralisation have fuelled demands by forest inhabitants and local communities for their rights to the land to be restored and for the opportunity to re-engage as forest managers.
This paper makes recommendations for pursuing such community management in Romania. Using the Piatra Craiului massif as an example, it proposes that where private forests have been restituted, a community forest management programme be employed and implemented nationally in order to improve the incomes and welfare of rural dwellers
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
Finishing characteristics of heat treated and compressed rubberwood.
Full text linkThe finishing characteristics of heat-treated and compressed Rubberwood were studied. It was found that heat-treated samples had significantly lower finish adhesion strength compared to the conventionally kiln-dried Rubberwood samples, which were used as control specimens. Further, compression of the specimens had also reduced its surface roughness, with an adverse effect on the finish adhesion strength. Inevitably, the use of heat treated and compressed wood in furniture may be suitable for applications, where lower finish adhesion strength could be tolerated at the expense of better finish film quality and process economics, especially in the manufacture of outdoor wooden furniture
Effect of adhesive type and glue-line thickness on the fatigue strength of mortise and tenon furniture joints
Full text linkThe fatigue strength of rectangular mortise and tenon rubberwood furniture joints made from polyvinyl-acetate (PVAc) and urea-formaldehyde (UF) adhesives were compared. The results showed that the allowable design stress for PVAc adhesive joints could be set at 30 % of its ultimate bending moment as compared to 25 % for the UF adhesive joint. Further, PVAc adhesive joints have large working tolerances for glue-line thicknesses which make it suitable for mass production furniture manufacturing
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