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Guidelines on sustainable mobility : shared transport
Get PDFThis is the fourth published guideline document, in a series of documents which are being published under the Resident First project headed by the Local Councils’ Association (LCA) and endorsed by all Local Councils in Malta and Gozo. The document’s objectives are to facilitate the discussion and implementation of shared transport within our localities, as another possible piece of the sustainable mobility puzzle. It explains different aspects to shared transport, highlights important case studies and identifies the critical steps needed to ensure that this may be a relevant part of the various mobility options on our islands and enable its successful delivery. As always, the wider aim of this and other documents shall be that of delivering better urban environmental quality. The guide acknowledges that shared transport, albeit important, is not a stand-alone solution but forms part of broader accessibility and connectivity strategies. There are continuous references to other documents within the Sustainable Mobility pillar that have been, or shall be, published by the LCA. As with the other documents, this publication is intended as a guide for Local Councils in planning, designing and promoting shared transportation. It does not aim to be prescriptive and seeks to have the right degree of technicality to be able to provide a full picture of the benefits of shared transport in a clear and objective manner. In this manner it is hoped that Local Councils and authorities alike may embrace the concept of shared transport as yet another important component within the strategic sustainable mobility approach that needs to be adopted so as to improve the liveability of our towns and villages.peer-reviewe
Guidelines on parking management : sustainable mobility
Get PDFThis document is one in a series of documents on Sustainable Mobility and includes other important subjects – Walkability and Accessibility, Shared Transport, Last Mile Transportation and EV Changeover, previously issued by the Local Councils’ Association. Importantly, all of these documents must be seen together in order to understand the complex subject of sustainable mobility in a holistic manner. The ultimate objective of this set of documents is to progressively reduce car dependence and move towards healthier, safer and more liveable societies wherein active mobility and/or shared mobility (with a focus on electric vehicles) may be the primary mode of transport. Needless to say, a number of measures may be implemented, both to actively reduce the number of vehicles on the road and the need for on- or off-street parking requirements. For instance, the possibility of Green Travel Plans in both individual enterprises and public entities, as well as teleworking initiatives, eliminate the need for additional parking spaces around employment areas while alleviating congestion issues within those localities that double up as important employment hubs. Similarly, the availability and facilitation of more online facilities, such as online shopping and the provision of online Government services, reduce the need to travel and, consequently, park one’s vehicle. In this respect, Local Councils could provide both the physical infrastructure and assistance to residents to use such services and thus reduce (or avoid altogether) travelling needs. Such measures have important indirect benefits to the environment, contributing to the reduction of traffic congestion and noise and air pollution. At the same time, even though this objective is clear, a large proportion of the Maltese population currently relies on private vehicles for everyday needs and activities. Consequently, the parking issue is a reality that cannot be ignored but that must be addressed. This document centres on understanding further the parking issue and proposing strategies, in the form of steps, that could lead to potential solutions in the short-, medium- and longW-term. These strategies must be understood and considered together with other complementing steps found within the other Sustainable Mobility documents.peer-reviewe
Guidelines on sustainable mobility : walkability and accessibility
No full textThis is the third published guideline document, in a series of documents which are being published under the Resident First project headed by the Local Councils’ Association and endorsed by all Local Councils in Malta and Gozo. The document is aimed at raising awareness of the importance of walking to deliver better urban environmental quality and liveability in our towns and villages. The guide seeks to establish why and when walking should take priority and how walkability is part of a broader accessibility and connectivity strategy. It frames this discussion within well-established urban design parameters such as the walking distance model to guide future decision-making. The document gives an equal focus on the qualitative aspects that enhance the walking experience. It provides an on-the-ground understanding of the various types of pedestrian infrastructure, from fully pedestrianised routes to segregated pavements, and the design principles for each. This publication is intended to guide Local Councils in planning, designing and promoting safe walking environments, and identifies tools for improving the walking environment. As first steps in increasing walkability in our localities, the Local Council Association together with the Ministry for the National Heritage, the Arts and Local Government and in coordination with Transport Malta and the Ministry for Transport, infrastructure and Capital Projects are working together with a number of Local Councils on temporary measures to make sure this mobility is safe, sustainable, healthy and efficient. The project is referred to as Slow Streets. The aim is to promote walking, cycling and public transport, in parallel with other educational campaigns to avoid unnecessary vehicle travel. To achieve this, some safe walking corridors within every locality have been identified that will connect shops, churches and piazzas, schools, primary health centres, gardens and play areas. Albeit its temporary nature, Slow Streets is the largest and most comprehensive pedestrian study in the form of 250km interconnected routes that can potentially extend to a permanent masterplan network of safe walkways and low-stress biking to slow traffic and create safer streets. This document focuses on permanent transformations even though some temporary solutions are presented as a way of reaching the goal of having permanently walkable and accessible societies. Together with four other published guideline documents, within the same series of documents, this publication aims to establish and maintain sustainable mobility on Malta and Gozo.peer-reviewe
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
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