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Israel: From Water Scarcity to Water Surplus
No full textIsrael is water scarce and approximately 60% desert, but it has nevertheless been able to maximize its limited water resources. The state is currently providing its surplus water to neighboring countries and has emerged as an international powerhouse for water technologies. This chapter asserts that even before Israel’s independence, its founding leaders understood the pivotal role of water. Their recognition stemmed from a blend of political objectives, the strategic hold of the land, and the need to sustain the country’s growing immigrant population. Guided by a foundational philosophy of “Water First,” the country embarked toward prosperity that continues to this day. This mindset evolved in response to the physical reality of water scarcity, deep historical and religious reverence for water, and a political and economic understanding of the importance of water. This mindset has guided a series of brave and daring decisions, leading to investing in unprecedented and elaborate infrastructure designed to transfer water from the country’s north to the south, creating the legal framework for water production, allocation, and provision, as well as strong administrative institutions to govern the system, cumulating in “Water for All” in this arid land. Today, government and academia consider Israel’s water policy and management as one of the key factors for its thriving economy
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Russia, India, and China in the Middle East
No full textThis chapter examines how emerging powers (EPs) interact with each other and whether they are cooperative or competitive. Using the case of the RIC group (Russia, India, and China), it does so through two lenses: Bilateral relationships between each other and within a region, specifically the Middle East. The findings indicate the following: One, efforts to find common ground at the bilateral level despite tensions; two, more individual than coordinated activity at the regional level; and three, limited contestation between the three. RIC behavior is then mapped over the expected roles of EPs, as supporters, shirkers, spoilers, and sources of an international system. It distinguishes between the global and regional roles of EPs, with Russia as a spoiler at both levels, India as a supporter of the global system and shirker regionally, and China as a source/supporter at the global level and shirker at the regional level. The chapter concludes with some areas for further areas for research and development
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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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