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Digital fabrication and local participation: A community maker space dissolving boundaries
No full textThis paper reports on our experience of setting up, operating, and evaluating the Mixhaus – a mobile community maker space inside a disused shipping container in Townsville, North Queensland, Australia. The project, which emerged from a pitch at the local StartUp Weekend in 2015, has seen community members coalesce around a shared interest in learning about and practising digital fabrication skills and techniques. We present and discuss the data we gathered from interviews, participant observations, and community workshops. Our thematic analysis was guided by the conceptual framework of boundary objects. We found that the Mixhaus maker space presents itself as an object crossing and dissolving boundaries along four different dimensions: an organisational mix, a social mix, a disciplinary mix, and a spatial mix. Our insights inform local community engagement initiatives and policies as well as design implications
Understanding producers' change to more sustainable grazing practices in the tropical savanna rangelands of North Queensland
No full textUnderstanding the factors and processes that facilitate and inhibit beef producers to become 'more sustainable' is essential for designing policy that will be effective in achieving sustainability. However, understanding of the social and psychological dimensions of beef producers' natural resource management is still limited. The purpose of this project was to increase understanding of beef producers' learning and self-identity, as it relates to their roles in life and sense of place, through a case study in north-eastern Queensland. Twenty eight producers were interviewed face-to-face and another 91 participated in a telephone survey. Results revealed that beef producers identified with a mix of more and less 'traditional' roles in life, were strongly attached to the family property for belonging, lifestyle, occupation and livelihood meanings, and were mainly engaged in non-organised learning to improve production skills and techniques. Findings of the research also emphasised the importance of collective and experiential learning, experiencing adversity and alternative practices and networks for fostering critical reflection and perspectives that favour sustainability. Further, results showed that producers who had an emotional connection to the family property, identified with a wide range of roles in life, and who were attracted to business innovation were more likely than those attached to the lifestyle and occupation of cattle grazing to favour beliefs aligned with sustainability. These findings suggest that planned interventions to foster sustainability need to be based on learning among all stakeholders that is experiential, collaborative, and involves critical reflection, alternative and business-orientated discourses
Self-perceived roles in life and achieving sustainability on family farms in north-eastern Australia
No full textRural production landscapes in Australia are experiencing a rapid rate of change as a result of, among other factors, climate change, biodiversity loss and changing societal values. Consequently, there is increasing pressure on producers to increase their sustainability. Understanding how producers perceive themselves in the context of this changing landscape is limited but important for the design of policy effective for achieving sustainability. This paper is based on a case study in the north-eastern Australian rangelands that included face-to-face interviews with 28 beef producers and a telephone survey with another 91 producers. The study investigated male and female beef producers' self-perceived roles in life through a lens of different farming discourses and the relationship between these roles and beliefs aligned with sustainability. Results revealed that although producers' self-percieved roles in life were being constructed through a mix of more or less 'traditional' discourses, tradition was still a strong influence. Producers who strongly identified with roles linked to 'less traditional' discourses were more likely than those who strongly identified with production-orientated roles to agree with beliefs that favoured nature conservation, learning and adapting to change. Increased opportunities for producers to participate in alternative discourses would appear important for fostering a self-identity that is open to learning, difference and change
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
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