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The Impact of the Organized Coach Tours on the Pollution in the Republic of Croatia
Get PDFTema diplomskog rada je „Utjecaj organiziranog autobusnog prijevoza na onečišćenje okoliša na području Republike Hrvatske“. Rad je temeljen na analizi sekundarnih podataka i izvora i na podacima prikupljenim primarnim istraživanjem. Onečišćenje okoliša definira se kao promjena stanja okoliša zbog nedopuštene emisije štetnih plinova ili zbog nekog drugog djelovanja koje bi moglo promijeniti kvalitetu okoliša.
U tekstu se upućuje na probleme onečišćenja okoliša koji nastaje emisijama štetnih plinova iz motora autobusa. Također, upućuje se i na potrebu istraživanja u koje bi se mogli uključiti svi sudionici lokalne zajednice i turisti. Prvo je istraživanje provedeno 2002., u kojem je zaključeno da autobusi u turizmu ne zadovoljavaju ekološke standarde i da u razdobljima povećane potražnje autobusi ne zadovoljavaju turističke potrebe.
Rezultati rada pokazuju da u Hrvatskoj prevladava još uvijek velik broj autobusa koji imaju zastarjelu tehnologiju. Također, dokumenti koje donosi zakonodavac sadržavaju implementaciju novih tehnologija i razvoja turizma prema načelima održivog razvoja. Zakonodavac regulira negativne efekte onečišćenja propisanom posebnom naknadom za onečišćenje i subvencijom za kupovinu novih vozila s čistom tehnologijom. U Hrvatskoj postoje preduvjeti za razvoj održivog turizma koji uključuje i novi trend koji se afirmira u Europskoj uniji a to je razvoj autobusnog turizma kao i uvođenje ekoloških zona u turističke destinacije. I na području Hrvatske bilježi se porast broja kružnih putovanja u organizaciji domaćih ili stranih turističkih agencija i organizatora putovanja. Međutim, unatoč brojnim zakonima, uredbama i strategijama o održivom turizmu, prometu ili razvoju društva u cjelini isti se ne provode u dovoljnoj mjeri u praksi. Ključni je problem još uvijek nedovoljno razvijena ideja i svijest o potrebi zaštite okoliša kao i nedovoljni izvori financiranja autobusnih prijevoznika za modernizaciju voznog parka.The subject of the thesis in this paper is "The Impact of the Organized Coach Tours on the Pollution in the Republic of Croatia." The pollution is defined as a change in the environment caused by the gas emissions from mobile sources into the environment or by some other impacts that are causing the changes of the environment.
The thesis is written on the basis and analysis of the secondary research in which the papers and documents are included. Also, the second part of the thesis is the primary research conducted by the author. The first research in this field was carried out in 2002. The aim of the thesis is to analyse the problems of the air pollution caused by the gas emissions from the coaches and buses. Additionally, this paper is inspecting the possible solutions that could be conducted by government or individuals in the tourism and transport sector. The organized coach tours are the most growing trend in tourism industry which is based on the use of the ecologically equipped vehicles that are the dominant factor regarding the coach tours. This trend is developing in Croatia as well.
The results of the research conducted in the thesis show the number of coaches that do not fulfill the technical and environmental requirements. The reasons are diverse and are co-related with the financial resources of the bus operators and the decreasing level of the environmental awareness. Despite the implementation of programs related to the sustainable development such as the subvention for buying new green vehicles there are problems that occur in communication between the policy and consumers. These problems are related to the information access and to the inefficency of the processing of legislative norms proscribed by government or NGO's. In conclusion, it is required to increase the environmental awarness by different campaigns in the tourism and the transport sector as well
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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