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Environmental assessment for commercial buildings:\ud Stakeholder requirements and tool characteristics
Get PDFThe Cooperative Research Centre for Construction Innovation (CRC CI) is a national research, development and implementation centre focused on the needs of the property, design, construction and facility management sectors. Established in 2001 and headquartered at Queensland University of Technology as an unincorporated joint venture under the Australian Government's Cooperative Research Program, the CRC CI is developing key technologies, tools and management systems to improve the effectiveness of the construction industry. The CRC CI is a seven year project funded by a Commonwealth grant and industry, research and other government support. More than 150 researchers and an alliance of 19 leading partner organisations are involved in and support the activities of the CRC C
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
A national building products inventory
Get PDFAustralia has no nationally accepted building products life cycle inventory (LCI) database for use in building\ud
Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD) assessment (BEA) tools. More information about the sustainability\ud
of the supply chain is limited by industry’s lack of real capacity to deliver objective information on process and\ud
product environmental impact. Recognition of these deficits emerged during compilation of a National LCI\ud
database to inform LCADesign, a prototype 3 dimensional object oriented computer aided design (3-D CAD)\ud
commercial building design tool. Development of this Australian LCI represents 24 staff years of effort here\ud
since 1995. Further development of LCADesign extensions is proposed as being essential to support key\ud
applications demanded from a more holistic theoretical framework calling for modules of new building and\ud
construction industry tools. A proposed tool, conceptually called LCADetails, is to serve the building product\ud
industries own needs as well as that of commercial building design amongst other industries’ prospective needs.\ud
In this paper, a proposition is examined that the existing national LCI database should be further expanded to\ud
serve Australian building product industries’ needs as well as to provide details for its client-base from a web\ud
based portal containing a module of practical supply and procurement applications. Along with improved\ud
supply chain assessment services, this proposed portal is envisaged to facilitate industry environmental life cycle\ud
improvement assessment and support decision-making to provide accredited data for operational reporting\ud
capabilities, load-based reasoning as well as BEA applications. This paper provides an overview of developments\ud
to date, including a novel 3-D CAD information and communications technology (ICT) platform for more\ud
holistic integration of existing tools for true cost assessment. Further conceptualisation of future prospects,\ud
based on a new holistic life cycle assessment framework LCADevelop, considering stakeholder relationships and\ud
their need for a range of complementary tools leveraging automated function off such ICT platforms to inform\ud
dimensionally defined operations for such as automotive, civil, transport and industrial applications are also\ud
explored
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