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Food Pricing Data in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada 2020-2021
No full textThis dataset contains data for food prices on several key food items in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador collected using citizen science, from October 2020 to December 2021. Data were collected in different places in the province on different timelines, with some locations receiving regular biweekly data and others having a single date inputted. The goal of this dataset was to gain high-resolution temporal data on food pricing to see variations over time, place, stores, online vs in-person shopping, sales, and food items.
This data is the basis of the report: Liboiron, Max, Willa Neilsen, Morgan Davidson, Sarah Crocker, Amanda Asiamah, Kaitlyn Hawkins, Brittany Marie Schaefer, Patricia Johnson-Castle, Kerri Claire Neil, Lynn Blackwood, Corinne Neil, Sarah Sauvé, and Charlotte Florian. (2023). Comparative Food Pricing in Newfoundland and Labrador using Citizen Science, 2020-2021. Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR). St. John’s: Memorial University.
Report, figures, etc are available at https://civiclaboratory.nl/nl-food-pricing-project
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
Toward place-based marine plastic monitoring in Arctic surface waters
No full textThe Nunatsiavut Government (NG) has long led interdisciplinary, Inuit-prioritized environmental monitoring in Labrador. As marine plastic pollution increasingly interacts with Arctic ecosystems and Inuit foodways, community-based approaches to monitoring plastics are essential. However, typical academic monitoring often produces generalized, large-scale results that are not easily applicable to local concerns. The first portion of this thesis investigates plastics in surface water in Nunatsiavut and proposes two methods to support community-relevant monitoring. First, we develop a technique that combines scientific and local knowledge to assess whether plastics likely enter Nunatsiavut's marine environment locally or from long-range transport. Second, we argue that place-based analysis offers more meaningful insights than broad, regional averages. While Nunatsiavut samples share some characteristics with other Arctic studies, we find that local differences in concentration and type of plastics highlight the value of localized analyses. Building on these findings that support place-based monitoring, the second portion of this thesis critically reviews how Arctic surface water plastic studies scale their research, showing that research tends to prioritize academic interests over local relevance through an analysis of scale. Overall, both studies argue for more locally grounded, place-based research approaches
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
MFA Thesis Exhibition 2006
Full text linkStated exhibition dates: March 14, 2006 - April 15, 2006 | Artists: Bagshaw, Amy; Grozinsky, David; Hiraoka, Fumito; Liboiron, Max | The 18th anniversary of the MFA Thesis Exhibition.https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/paul-w-zuccaire-gallery/1035/thumbnail.jp
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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