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Developing hydro-climatic services for water security: opportunities for collaboration between UK and Indian hydrologists, climatologists and stakeholders
Get PDFThe India-UK Water Centre (IUKWC) promotes cooperation and collaboration between the complementary priorities of NERC-MoES water security research.
This State of the Science Water Brief was produced as an output of the IUKWC workshop on “Developing hydro–climatic services for water security” held in Pune, India in Nov/Dec 201
Improving freshwater monitoring frameworks for data and research management: report of user engagement initiative January 2018
Get PDFThe India-UK Water Centre (IUKWC) promotes cooperation and collaboration between the complementary priorities of NERC-MoES water security research.
This report presents an overview of the joint India-UK scientific User Engagement Initiative held in Kochi from 23rd– 25th January, 2018. The event was convened by the India-UK Water Centre cocoordinators Dr A.K. Sahai (Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India) and Dr Harry Dixon (Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, UK). The initiative was organised by IUKWC Secretariat in collaboration with the Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK and Nansen Environmental Research Centre, Kochi. The event aimed to engage regional-level water policy and management bodies in discussions about how the latest India-UK scientific outputs could be used to help improve freshwater monitoring frameworks and data for research and management in the southern Indian region. The event was specifically focused towards addressing four key themes:
Water Quality - Monitoring Pollution & Treatment; Monitoring Aquatic Ecosystems & Biodiversity; Irrigation - Monitoring Availability and Consumption; and Water Provision : Monitoring Supply & Consumption.
The event was multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder in nature. Representatives from organizations responsible for the development of water policy and the management of freshwater issues in Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Orissa attended. Amongst others, this included the Kerala Biodiversity Board, Kerala Water Resources Department, Karnataka State Biodiversity Board, Karnataka Water Resources Department, Maharashtra Pollution Control Board, Tamil Nadu Water Supply Board, and Orissa Pollution Control Board.
Discussion focused on the theme of Improving Freshwater Monitoring Frameworks and Data for Research and Management. Scientists from UK and Indian institutions presented the state-of-the-art in joint India-UK water security research, in the areas of water supply and management, water quality, biodiversity and irrigation. Indian Institutions including the National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, National Institute of Oceanography, Kochi, Central Marine and Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment, Cochin University of Science & Technology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, National Water Academy, amongst others, participated actively in the initiative. UK participants included experts from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, British Geological Survey, University of Stirling and University of Portsmouth.
This report outlines the structure, participation, presentation and discussion sessions undertaken during the course of the event. The report is intended for the workshop participants, India-UK Water Centre members and stakeholders
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
Swann's Way: Marcel Proust's Sanctuary of Remembrance
No full textThe following examination of the metaphors and memories that shape Swann’s Way utilizes context surrounding Proust’s aesthetic affinity for English writer John Ruskin, whose philosophical ideas he translated into French and diffused into his own oeuvre. The origins of Proust’s metaphors are understood further in their wider social function in the novel, which will be discussed alongside Marxist critic Walter Benjamin’s essay “The Image of Proust” that fully shapes this discussion as one of both the inner and outer spheres of experience that the novel is preoccupied with. Ultimately, Proust’s veneration for the value of a writer’s words – the artist’s capturing of an object, a person, an experience – surpassing the object itself is what defines his status within the modernist milieu. Proust posits an empiricist theory made fully literary as he reenacts the writer’s journey towards a fully realized artistic perception amidst the crowdedness of modernity, marking the social and interior selves as intertwined.Livingstone Undergraduate Research Award in HumanitiesTemple University. College of Liberal Art
The Murder at Cherry Hill
Get PDFThe Library Prize for Undergraduate ResearchTemple University. College of Liberal ArtsEnglishThis research project was completed as part of the course, English (3020)
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
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