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Resolve Ties Method for Re-establishing Fit for Purpose Survey Boundaries
Get PDFCountries including Uganda adopted Fit-for-Purpose (FFP) Land Administration as a viable approach towards achieving full coverage of land registration aimed at empowering communities to secure land rights and enhance land management. While FFP survey approaches have successfully achieved huge coverage in a reasonable time and at an affordable cost in some districts of Uganda and many other countries including Rwanda, Ghana, Ethiopia, and Indonesia; most reported land disputes on un-titled land which is the target for FFP approach are primarily due to boundaries conflicts. However, there is limited knowledge and no standard method for re-establishing boundaries for land parcels initially surveyed using FFP methods. In this paper, we evaluated different field land surveying procedures, approaches, and methods to come up with an optimal method for re-establishing FFP land boundaries.
The study utilized qualitative and quantitative research methods which involved interviews with relevant stakeholders, experts, and technical persons to gather different perspectives. Primary and secondary data were collected through document analysis, key informants, and in-depth interview tools. Purposive sampling was used to get information from land professionals and university lecturers. A total of 14 in-depth interviews were conducted from land professionals and four institutions handling land administration or geomatics research. The findings from the interviews were used to identify possibles approaches for re-establishing FFP land boundaries. The identified approaches were validated through fieldwork using case studies that highlighted hurdles, positional accuracy, and demonstrated their applicability. The best practices were picked from the different approaches and were triangulated against accurate Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Real Time Kinematic (RTK) observations to develop an optimal method for re-establishing FFP land boundaries that was later validated.
The results indicated that the use of survey ties was the best method among the existing approaches as it is cost-effective, requires less skills, and provide relatively good accuracy from reference marks. However, to achieve the best results, the study found out that, ties should be integrated with procedures from methods used at initial FFP survey to come up with the optimal Resolve Ties method that incorporates self-resolving technique that reduces variations to achieve FFP accuracy for boundary re-establishment from reference features. The study also developed guidelines for implementing the proposed method with valuable insights into the re-establishment of FFP boundaries for parcels initially surveyed using FFP methods. The developed Resolve Ties method and guidelines can be used to enhance FFP land administration that may ultimately lead to a more efficient and effective land registration system
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
Geospatial Assessment of Uncontrolled Urbanization and Its Deviation from an Intelligent City: A Case Study of Fort Portal, Uganda
No full textDispelling 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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