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A Study on the Principles for the Operation and Management of the Dolphin and Whale Watching Industry along the Eastern Coast of Taiwan
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Title: A Study on the Principles for the Operation and Management of the Dolphin and Whale Watching Industry along the Eastern Coast of Taiwan
Author: Yen-Ruey Kuo
The dolphin and whale watching industry has become one of the most thriving tourism industries in Taiwan in recent years, and as such, a comprehensive system of operation and management is required to help secure its sustainable development. This thesis focuses on the eastern coast of Taiwan where dolphin and whale watching first developed earliest in Taiwan and where the largest portion of operators in the business is located. Based on personal interviews following carefully-designed questionnaires with local experienced operators, skippers and narrators, this thesis studies and analyzes the present conditions of local operations and management within four aspects of the development of the industry, namely marketing strategies, environmental and ecological protection, social justice and general institutional issues. It also presents suggestions concerning sustainable development in the dolphin and whale watching industry along the eastern coast of Taiwan. Finally, according to the suggestions provided by operators and managers, domestic and foreign references and/or personal observation, the thesis proposes fifteen principles for the sustainable development for the dolphin and whale watching industry. The first ever for Taiwan, these principles are believed to be invaluable in further developing the required indicators and/or guidelines for the sustainable development of the dolphin and whale watching industry in Taiwan
The influence of multiple representations and attitudes to learning on the first year non-physics majors' conceptual understanding
Full text linkThe study described in this thesis was conducted in a university in Australia with non-Physics majors studying Introductory Physics over three semesters. The main theme in this thesis was to study the relationship between students’ use of multiple representations, their attitudes towards learning Physics and their conceptual understanding. The assessment in the Physics unit was designed to encourage students to represent their knowledge with as many representations as they could. Two multiple representational questionnaires on the topics of thermal physics and optics were developed to assess students’ conceptual understanding and for their learning. In addition, three attitude-related surveys - Physics Motivation Survey, Expectation Survey and Experience Survey - were administered to measure students’ attitude towards learning Physics.Phase One of the study focused on observing the lecturer and tutors’ representations in class and accordingly, developing the multiple representations questionnaire prior to its first trial. In Phase Two, the revised multiple representations questionnaires were administered as the second trial, and a marking key was developed for the questionnaires. In addition, three attitude-related surveys were administered in the first trial to clarify students’ attitudes to learning, because some inattentive learning behaviours were observed in Phase One.Phase Three was the most productive phase because this phase built on what was learned from Phases One and Two. Based on the results of Phase Two, the multiple representational questionnaires testing thermal physics and optics were revised and administered in a third trial, and the three attitude related surveys were given the second trial. In addition, in Phase Three, the time spent on different representations used by the lecturer was recorded. These data were used to obtain further understanding of the relationship between multiple representations, students’ attitudes to learning Physics and students’ conceptual understanding. Also approximately 50 % of the student cohort (n = 70) was interviewed.In Phase Three, the results of post-tests of the multiple representational questionnaires showed that students’ marks varied considerably on the zero to three scale; however, the average mark of all representations, number of different mode representations presented in each question improved significantly based on both on t-tests and effect size compared to their pre-tests. It was speculated that the improvement was due to the effect of the lectures and tutorials that were designed to make students explicitly more aware of the different ways they can represent their knowledge. Besides, it was found that the time of teaching in one representation had no significant correlation with students’ improvement of mark in that representation.During the interviews, students were able to provide more elaborate and richer explanations than on their written responses alone because they were able to clarify their written responses. Students had more opportunities to confront cognitive conflicts when the interviewer reminded students about the mistakes they made in the questionnaire or in their oral explanation. The research showed that students’ prior knowledge (e.g., representational, referent and conceptual knowledge) was important to make the best use of multiple representations.The three attitude-related surveys had high Cronbach alpha reliabilities and were generally effective in measuring students’ attitudes and unit learning experiences. Based on students’ responses to the three surveys, their attitudes towards learning Physics was positive in spite of some assessment anxiety, and they reported positive experiences during the semester. Students’ expectations of the unit they attended had medium correlation(r=0.37 in thermal module, r=0.38 in optics module) with their conceptual understanding. However, the careless attitudes observed by some students may have limited their learning with multiple representations. We recommend further study examining the causes of students’ learning attitude and learning behaviour, and how these causes interact with each other to influence students’ conceptual understanding while learning physics with multiple representations
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
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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