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Which urban and landscape qualities make Arctic villages attractive? The Torne River villages in Sweden
Full text linkThroughout history, small village communities in the Arctic have developed several strategies to ensure their survival. Along the Torne River, some fishing communities have produced specific architectures, landscapes, and social strategies to support their communities and survive for centuries. However, depopulation, aging, climate change, and the expansion of the extraction industry are threatening these villages. The hypothesis is that traditional fishing villages situated alongside rivers possess architectural, urban, and social attributes that can enhance outdoor activities linked to water and green spaces and enable the long-term social sustainability of Arctic villages. The innovative approach of the paper involves combining a mapping methodology of green and blue infrastructure with the architectural, urban, social and historical values of a place to identify design strategies for improving attractiveness demonstrating its efficacy, particularly in small, localscale villages. The paper investigates the villages of Kukkola and Korpikylä taken as emblematic examples and explores the architectural and landscape value in relation to the green–blue
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Professor Cheng Ling Zhu, Professor Zhu Rong Lin, Professor Zhang Shi Quan and Professor Ma Jing Liang, 1994
No full textPictured during a visit to Swinburne are Left to Right: Professor, Ma Jing Liang, Director for External Affairs, International Technology and Economy Institute, China; Professor, Zhang Shi Quan, Assistant Research Professor, International Technology and Economy Insititute, Beijing; Professor Zhu Rong Lin, Director, International Technology and Economy Insititute, Shonghai Branch; Professor Les Kilmartin, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic) International Office; Professor Cheng Ling Zhu, Director, International Technology and Economy Institute, Beijing Office. Swinburne Staff News 14 April 1994
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
Impact of social networking sites on academic writing among Chinese postgraduates / Ma Jing Wei
Full text linkThe development and proliferation of web 2.0 technologies as well as Social Networking Sites (SNSs) have expanded tremendously now that Social Networking is part of everyone‘s life. With the expansion of SNSs, scholars assume that this new platform plays an important role in academic writing. On the other hand, many Chinese EFL learners over a decade failed to improve their English academic writing due to the ineffective classroom teacher centred models (Rao and Chan, 2010).
The aims of this study are to investigate the relationship between frequency of Chinese postgraduates using SNSs and English academic writing in terms of lexical complexity and to investigate the perception of the Chinese postgraduates on how SNSs usage affect their writing. This study uses two theoretical frameworks, the first one being the Typology of SNSs users which according to Brandtzæg and Heim (2011), SNSs users are classified as people who diversified behaviour into meaningful categories active SNSs users and inactive SNSs users, and second, the Lexical Richness Measurements which use the lexical variance (LV) and lexical sophistication (LS) formulas introduced by Laufer and Nation (1995).
This study uses a mixed research method of both quantitative and qualitative approaches. For the quantitative part of the research, a questionnaire was distributed to 61 Chinese postgraduates in University of Malaya. The written text of these 61 students were also collected after they answered the questionnaire. The active and inactive SNSs users were identified and three students from each group were randomly selected and
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interviewed. The results of the questionnaire and written text findings indicated that there were no significant relationship between frequency of participation logging in SNSs and their academic writing in terms of lexical complexity. However the results of the interviews revealed that the inactive SNSs users had better agreement of vocabulary acquirement, attitude and motivation towards academic writing compared to the active SNSs users (the usage of SNSs in terms of the high participation of users are called active SNSs users)
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
The teaching of mathematics and science in English : a discourse analysis of editorials in a Chinese daily / Ma Jing.
Full text linkExamining consumers’ behavioral intention in O2O commerce from a relational perspective: an exploratory study
No full textOnline-to-offline (O2O) commerce is a new e-business model that is popular among consumers and profitable for e-vendors. However, limited studies have been conducted to understand consumer behavior in this context. Based on commitment–trust theory and trust transfer theory, we conducted an exploratory study to explore consumers’ repurchase intention and sharing intention in the O2O commerce context from the relational viewpoint. Two studies were conducted using a web-based survey and Partial Least Squares were used to analyze the data. In Study 1, the results indicated that various targets of trust and commitment have significant effects on repurchase intention and sharing intention. Trust can be transferred both inter-channel and intra-channel in O2O commerce. Moreover, the effect of trust in O2O platforms on commitment is mediated by trust in user community and trust in merchants. To demonstrate the generalizability and external robustness of the results, we replicated the research model in Study 2 using data from a more representative sample. The replicated study produced similar results. This research provides an initial understanding of consumer behavior in the O2O commerce context and contributes to trust transfer theory and commitment–trust theory. Further, this research benefits companies undertaking O2O business by enabling them to better understand how to improve consumer repurchasing intention and sharing intention to succeed in the e-business industry
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