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Les décisions face aux risques majeurs. Retours d'expériences et pistes d'amélioration
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Theory of prevention and disaster risk reduction from post-disaster damages and losses database : the floods in PACA region in 2015 and in Seine and Lorraine basins in 2016 in France
Full text linkLAUREA MAGISTRALEI dati di danni sono uno strumento utile per l’implementazione delle strategie di riduzione del rischio di disastro a differenti scale e per meglio comprendere gli andamenti delle perdite da disastro a livello globale.
Il principale argomento di questa tesi è il lavoro realizzato dal team francese del progetto LODE, iniziativa avviata dalla Commissione Europea – DG ECHO - Directorate General for European Civil protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations. Il principale obbiettivo è lo sviluppo di un sistema informativo europeo per il DRR e il CCA a supporto di politiche e strategie a diversi livelli decisionali.
Innanzitutto, è stata realizzata una ricerca riguardo ai dati raccolti da eventi disastrosi avvenuti in passato, al fine di capire l’attuale state of art. Il team francese ha analizzato un caso studio riguardante l’alluvione dell’ottobre 2015 nella regione PACA. In aggiunta, un secondo caso studio è stato preso in considerazione: le alluvioni nel 2016 nei bacini dei fiumi Seine e Lorraine.
Per organizzate i dati trovati, è presentato uno schema di database “ideale”, seguendo la principale struttura proposta dalle direttive iniziali del progetto LODE. I dati dei due casi studio sono stati poi classificati seguendo lo schema di categorizzazione inizialmente esposto.Loss data are a useful tool for the implementation of disaster risk reduction strategies at different scales and to better understand disaster loss trends at global level.
The main topic of this thesis is the work done by the French team of LODE project, initiative established by the European Commission - DG ECHO – Directorate General for European Civil protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations. The main goal is the development of a European damage and loss data information system for DRR and CCA to support policies and strategies at different decisional levels.
First, an investigation about collected data from past disaster events has been performed, in order to understand the current state of art. The French team analysed one study case regarding the flood in October 2015 in PACA region. In addition to that, a second study case has been taken into consideration: floods in 2016 in Seine and Lorraine basins.
To organize the found data, an “ideal” database schema is presented, following the main structure proposed by the initial LODE directives. The data of the two study cases are then classified following the initial category’s framework exposed
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
Risk policy tools for high-risk industrial sites in Normandy (France) and Piedmont (Italy): more hazards-focused than vulnerabilities-focused
No full textIndustrial risk policy systems englobe diverse risk policy tools (e.g. tools focused on hazard reduction or vulnerability reduction), various actors (public, private, and intermediary actors), and a spectrum of normative components (e.g. command-and-control and self-regulation measures). For high-risk sites, the effectiveness of risk policy systems, indicating to what extent prescriptions can prevent major accidents, avoid crises, and maintain balanced trade-offs in the long term in practice, is important to be assessed ex-ante (i.e. before major accident occurrence). This requires a deeper understanding of how policies are structured around tools directed toward achieving risk policy goals, which is rarely covered by literature taking into account the full set of policy tools. Therefore, this paper raises the research question: how is the industrial risk policy system structured around practical risk policy tools for high-risk sites to contribute to policy effectiveness? Based on a regulatory review, this paper scrutinizes the risk-related public policies and their risk tools for high-risk sites in Normandy (France) and Piedmont (Italy) for the first time. It also examines the integration of vulnerability concept into the French and Italian risk policy systems for high-risk sites taking into account the regional level. Findings, relying on two cases and fostering conceptual thinking, reveals an important assessment criterion appears as a pre-condition to an effective risk policy: ‘adequacy and appropriateness’ of the risk policy tools for high-risk sites covering the coherence of the tool with the main policy objectives and the suitability and sufficiency of these tools to cover both hazard-based and vulnerability-based concerns. Hazard-focused tools appeared to remain dominant with limited implicit considerations of vulnerabilities especially related to human and material damage. Limitations and further work include adding the actors’ perceptions in the risk governance system and exploring other assessment criteria to propose an adapted assessment framework for high-risk policies
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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