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Post-Conservation Evaluation (PCE) framework for adaptive reuse museums: Case studies of George Town, Malaysia / Muhammad Firzan Abdul Aziz
Get PDFThe trend of converting historic buildings to museums has been found prevalent in the historic cities of Melaka and George Town, among the UNESCO World Heritage sites of Malaysia. However, adaptive reuse approach has not always brought in positive conservation impacts as some historic buildings turned dysfunctional after their conversion to museums. This scenario has called upon the needs for having an evaluation framework focusing on the post-conservation impacts of historic buildings converted to museums (adaptive reuse museums) within the UNESCO World Heritage of Malaysia context. Criteria of physical appropriateness, functional effectiveness and financial efficiency were scrutinised through literature review to conceptually form the Post-Conservation Evaluation (PCE). Case studies obtained through purposive sampling involving five historic buildings in the historic city of George Town were then used to test the operational and empirical capabilities of the conceptual PCE. Field work conducted at the case studies then led to the findings that the post-conservation impacts of adaptive reuse museums have been not convincing in the sense of physical appropriateness and also functionally ineffective in the sense of preserving sensitive collections. This evaluative research then contributed a PCE framework focusing on the impacts of adaptive reuse museums in the context of UNESCO World Heritage of Malaysia, based on validation via Delphi survey involving experts and stakeholders in the field of built heritage conservation
Transcultural Zen design frameworks for enhancing mental health through restorative spaces and user experience
No full textAbstract Zen aesthetics, rooted in Chinese Chan Buddhist philosophy, offers a universal framework for designing restorative spaces that transcend cultural boundaries. This study investigates how Zen principles—simplicity, natural harmony, spatial balance, and negative space—are adapted in tea room design across diverse cultural contexts and evaluates their impact on user experience. Through semi-structured focus group discussions with eight expert designers from East and Southeast Asia, complemented by case studies of Zen-inspired spaces in Europe and Scandinavia, the research identifies key strategies for balancing cultural authenticity with global applicability. Findings reveal that minimalist layouts, biophilic integration, and strategic use of negative space reduce self-reported stress by 22–35% and enhance cognitive focus, aligning with established stress recovery and attention restoration theories. Designers achieved cultural hybridity through material substitution, such as Nordic wool felt replacing traditional tatami mats, and ritual adaptation, such as reimagining tea ceremonies as barista-led pour-over rituals, while maintaining Zen’s philosophical core. The study advances a transcultural design framework that prioritizes locally sourced materials, modular spatial configurations, and participatory methodologies to address urban mental health challenges. By bridging Zen philosophy with evidence-based design practices, this work provides actionable insights for creating culturally resonant yet globally adaptable restorative environments in an interconnected world
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
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