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Drying Oasis: Drought and Cultural Ideas of Nature in Santa Barbara, California
Get PDFThis thesis looks at the relationship between residents of Santa Barbara, California’s cultural ideas of nature, their sense of their city as a place, and their experience of California’s recent multi-year drought. Santa Barbara is lauded for its “natural” beauty, though many aspects of the aesthetic associated with “nature” there are the product of cultural preferences and social structure. Multiple years of drought have revealed the ecological contradictions in many Santa Barbarans’ definitions of nature, and exacerbated the structural, racialized inequalities on which these depend. I conducted key informant interviews with Santa Barbara’s water conservation coordinator, the city arborist, and an environmental activist working to ban fracking, respectively, each of which illuminated different aspects of Santa Barbara’s current cultural-environmental moment. I also interviewed patrons of two parks in Santa Barbara (Alice Keck Park Memorial Garden and Oak Park) about their personal experiences of the drought. I conducted a comparative analysis of the data from the respective parks, which represent contrasting imaginations of nature and attract different demographic populations. One park offers a commodified nature that is produced, distributed, and consumed in the form of an aesthetic, the other offers a comparatively minimalist venue for outdoor recreation. I found that Santa Barbara’s dominant nature aesthetic is, in effect, a taste associated with a set of privileged class positions. Furthermore, the production of this commodified nature, which often poorly reflects Santa Barbara’s semi-arid climate, depends on a mostly Latino population of laborers. The drought has therefore disproportionately affected Santa Barbara’s Latino community, as landscaping work has become increasingly scarce with the declining ecological viability of the aesthetic preferences of the wealthy. The plight of the former constitutes a case of environmental injustice, but one that is specifically tied to Santa Barbara’s cultural ideas of nature and environmental sensibilities, rather than being a direct result of the drought in any simple sense. Those same cultural ideas of nature, particularly the nature/society divide that influences them, do not promote a conscious consideration of the human labor behind much of what qualifies as nature, and thus Santa Barbara residents who are not severely affected by the drought remain largely unaware of how many members of the Latino population are
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
Session I: The Wild in Fire: Public Discourse on Aid to Wildlife in the Thomas Fire
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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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