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Assessing the Adaptive Capacity of Idaho's Magic Valley as a Complex Social-Ecological System
No full textSimilar to a majority of the Western United States, Idaho’s Magic Valley region is predicted to experience future climate uncertainties, including a warming climate, variable precipitation events, and a decrease in water availability during prime irrigation months, as well as demographic and land use changes. With water users already encountering conflict in this water scarce region, the ability for the Magic Valley and its encompassing Upper Snake River Basin to adapt to future climate uncertainties is vital for ensuring the region can sustain its agribusiness economy. This research assesses the region as a complex social-ecological system and takes an explorative view into the evolution of the Magic Valley’s institutions in charge of water administration and management to understand how they have increased their adaptive capacity over time in response to system disturbance. Observations from this research can help to highlight both the adaptive capacity of this region to respond to future disturbances as well as its vulnerabilities to inform future planning initiatives toward resiliency and sustainability for the region’s water supply.masters, M.S., Water Resources -- University of Idaho - College of Graduate Studies, 2019-0
Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis of Phosphorus in the Magic Valley, Idaho using Food-Energy-Water Systems (FEWs)
No full textThe effects of phosphorus in the Snake River Water Basin are under-studied and there is risk for future issues in water quality. In part, this is due to a lack of a framework to study water quality from publicly available sources. This thesis used an Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA) framework to explore the relationship between impaired stream locations and various point and non-point sources of phosphorus. ESDA tools utilized are histograms to highlight distributions, Global Moran’s I to understand spatial autocorrelation, and principal component-based clustering to highlight patterns in data. Based on the findings of the analysis, spatial econometric modeling will establish if there is a need for further investigations into water quality, what questions the data might produce, and who needs to answer these questions. More specifically, hydric soils, waste holding capacity, aquaculture, manure application, hydroelectric dams, confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs), food processors, crop type, septic systems, synthetic fertilizer, and surface flow accumulation were tested for spatial correlation against EPA designated stream impairments of phosphorus. My analysis shows the strongest support for a Spatial Durbin Model (SDM) regression to appropriately visualize spillover effects of phosphorus sources. Insights gained by this study discover previously unknown associations and form hypotheses that can provide future policy makers a starting point for further investigation into managing phosphorus in southern Idaho.masters, M.S., Environmental Science -- University of Idaho - College of Graduate Studies, 2021-1
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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