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Climate change solutions; Electric mobility at York University
Get PDFOur intention is to ensure that York University transitions to 100% renewable energy sources over the course of the next few years in light of Canada’s climate emergency declaration. We aim to mitigate carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions on campus through innovative transportation methods, infrastructure, culture, and art. To enhance this research, we reviewed scholarly literature and used geographic information system (GIS) mapping and Helioscope to calculate the possibility of photovoltaic energy. We conclude that the transition to renewable energy sources is not only possible, but entirely feasible, and will move the university toward carbon-free status. Suitable means of transport include electric bicycles, electric mobility charging stations, and micro grid solutions. Based on simulation results, we design a pilot plan and locate the most efficient places on campus for locating renewable facilities. Current research suggests that humanity has approximately ten years to mitigate and reverse the effects of climate change to ensure the future of our planet, its biodiversity, and the human species
Animal/Human Relationships, Indigenous Ways of Knowing, and Species Extinction
Get PDFWe humans coexist within the biosphere and live among other creatures, and thus have a duty to protect and preserve the environment. The purpose of this research is to deconstruct the human/animal relationship through biocentric and biophilic perspectives, challenging the modern Western anthropocentric view of non-humans and nature as compared to the Indigenous way of life, deeply rooted in Traditional Ecological Knowledge. Through a critical analysis of scholarly books and journals, I compare and contrast Indigenous ways of living with the western human/animal relationships, assessing the impact of our coexistence in the natural and urban environments. Well-respected and renowned scientists have long warned that the current rate of resource consumption is unsustainable and will result in an inter-generational human threats as well as threats to non-human life and peril to plants. Without an immediate change in human behaviour, we are heading towards a loss of biodiversity. This research highlights the importance of decelerating species extinction by integrating Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge with western science to inform governments, private interest groups, and the public
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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