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Dynamic flood inundation model - a case study at Damansara catchment / Awang Nasrizal Awang Ali
Damansara Catchment is flood prone and major problem for the dense populated region is the damages received during flood. High intensity rainfall of 104 mm/day on 26th February 2006 had affected several areas to be heavily inundated with losses up to RM 45 millions. Thus, there is a need to conduct a study. This project presents a 3D (three-dimensional) hydrodynamic flood simulation that utilizes GIS (Geographic Information Systems). A DEM (Digital Elevation Model) for Damansara Catchment was developed and integrated into InfoWorks River Simulation (IWRS) program. The model was calibrated and validated using the 26th February 2006, 21st March 2007 and 15th October 2008 flood event. The parameters involved in calibration are the CN (Curve Number), Manning's Roughness Coefficient («) and River Profiles Extension. In model reliability analysis, the ratio of Linear Regression, R2 was found to be hard to be calibrated, probably due to changes in river profiles. MWLA (Maximum Water Level Analysis) and RMSE (Root Mean Square Error) both show error less than 9.09% and 0.90% respectively, and in Chi-Square Test, p>0.90, thus indicating that the difference between actual and simulated water level is not significant and that the model is satisfactory. Inundated areas such as TTDI Jaya are able to be identified from inundation map. An alternative natural retention pond, RPOOl is proposed at the upper catchment of Kampung Melayu Subang through the utilization of existing terrain 'bowl'. With improvement on the catchments' soil cover, RPOOl pond was simulated to be able to reduce both flood level and volume up to 2.90% and 4.10% respectively
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
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
“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
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
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
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
PENGARUH PARTISIPASI PEMAKAI DAN DUKUNGAN MANAJEMEN PUNCAK TERHADAP KESUKSESAN PENGEMBANGAN SISTEM INFORMASI AKUNTANSI SERTA DAMPAKNYA TERHADAP PROSES PENGAMBILAN KEPUTUSAN
The objective of this research was to examine empirically the influence of user participation and top management support on success of accounting information system development and its impact on decision making process. The analysis units were the hospital in Pekanbaru city. The election of sample is by using technique of probability sampling with method of simple random sampling. The statistical method used to test the hypothesises was path analysis with AMOS 20 program. The result shows that only the first hypothesis did not have a significant influence, while the others had a significant influence.</jats:p
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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