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Management von Mangrovenwäldern und dessen Einfluss auf lokale, forstabhängige gemeinden
Get PDFThe livelihoods of the majority of the inhabitants of the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest are directly dependent on its natural resources. Non-timber forest products such as fish are a major source of income for these communities and a major source of revenue for the Sundarbans Forest Department. The Department is responsible for the management of the forest, including the harvesting of non-timber forest products and associated revenue collection, and controlling illegal harvesting and the activities of pirates which are increasingly extorting financial gains from the areas fishermen. This research project explores the current management system of the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest and the impacts on the areas fishermen communities. Under the current forest management system, a fishing ban has been imposed over the core area of the Sundarbans. As a result, approximately 40% of this areas former fishermen are now unemployed and approximately 50% have had to obtain other labor-based employment. The fishermens previous average annual income from fishing in the core area was approximately EUR 2,625 but this has now fallen to approximately EUR 511. The affected fishermen community and the core area of the Sundarbans subject to the fishing ban have been mapped. The fishing ban areas cover 24 rivers and 4 islands. Identification of these fishing ban areas has been based on the fishermens indigenous knowledge and past fishing experience in the core area. At present, the fishermen community is facing numerous challenges to their livelihoods. The fishing ban has strained local businesses and resulted in a loss of foreign income to the region. This has affected many fishermens ability to provide for their childrens education and is also adversely impacting the communitys religious and other traditional customs. The research also explores the critical issues that the current forest management raises for the buffer areas fishermen in the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest. These fishermen are in an economically disadvantaged position due to the high costs of unofficial extra royalty payments to the forest revenue collectors, and additional illegal payments that must be made to both the forest patrols and pirates. The Forest Department collects extra unofficial revenue from the buffer areas fishermen that amounts to approximatelyEUR 320,349 (EUR 29,916 for BLCs plus EUR 290,433 for royalties) per annum. The forest patrols are also extorting approximately EUR 2.3 million each year in illegal payments from the fishermen, while pirates also receive approximately EUR 2,318 per fisherman each year. The total annual amount illegally obtained from the fishermen by the pirates and forest patrols is approximately EUR 25.61 million. This is approximately 21 times higher than the current annual budget for the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest (Sundarbans Forest, West Division) and approximately 427 times higher than the annual legal revenue collected from the fishermen by the Forest Department. This situation is a major issue in the current management of the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest that is impacting on the livelihoods of the buffer areas fishermen. The research recommends numerous potential solutions to the problems occurring in the current management of the Sundarbans Mangrove Forest. These include modifying the forest patrols and revenue collection systems to ensure that monitoring and protection activities are more effective and transparent
Kinetic Analysis of Freeze-thaw Stability of Mayonnaise
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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
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
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