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    Assessment of forest aboveground biomass estimation from superview-1 satellite image using machine learning approaches / Azinuddin Mohd Asri

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    Estimating forest biomass in a small-scale forest area is more accurate as it depends on actual field measurements. However, measuring the field to estimate forest biomass in a large region is not feasible because it is labour intensive, a lengthy process and expensive. Therefore, this study aimed (i) to classify the forest aboveground biomass by estimating crown projection area using object-based image analysis (OBIA) and (ii) to determine the accuracy assessment for estimating forest aboveground biomass using an artificial neural network (ANN) and Random Forest (RF). Object-based image analysis (OBIA) is one of the methods designed to classify the satellite image using multiresolution segmentation to obtain the value of the crown projection area (CPA). In contrast, machine learning is used to calculate the accuracy assessment of dependent between independent variables. A combination of approaches has been tested to estimate the forest's aboveground biomass and carbon stock for Selangor’s terrestrial ecosystem environment. The result shows the goodness of fit for the distance index (D) was 0.040. The total accuracy for 30 reference polygons was 96.6% and 96% for the total accuracy for distance index (D). The statistical values for min, max, mean, and standard deviation of carbon stock (kg/tree) were 4.891, 196.250, 101.142, and 46.340. The Random Forest algorithm was the best algorithm compared to the artificial neural network, which produced the highest R2 (0.998) and lowered RSME (55.067). The suitable independent variables (hL, DBH, and CPA) were vital to estimating the dependent variable (Sc) and producing a carbon stock map for the final result. The significant of this study is to prove that the application of object-based image analysis classification and machine learning algorithms for forest aboveground biomass and carbon stock estimation has excellent potential for the future management of forests to maintain their existence and growth

    Toshiba / Azinuddin Mohd Asri

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    The aim of this assignment is to discover the product's flaw. The company I've picked is Toshiba Corporation, which was founded on July 11th, 1875 by Tanaka Hisashige. To conduct my research, I selected the RZE-BT 180H's headphone from their extensive product line. In this case study, I used a SWOT analysis to evaluate the RZE-BT 180H's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. The biggest issue I found with the RZE-BT 180H is that the audio lacks clarity, in contrast to other Toshiba equipment such as their laptop speakers, Toshiba TV, wireless Bluetooth speakers, and others. The greatest remedy I can think have based on the situation is to replace the diaphragm on a pair of headphones, where the diaphragm's quality effects the overall quality of the headphone. Finally, the recommended solution for this headset would result in higher user satisfaction for individuals who chose to use the headphone. Aside from that, if it works, it will help increase revenue because demand for the headphones will definitely rise once people realize how much better they have gotten as a consequence of the proposed solution

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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

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    We 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

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    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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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