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Pre-assessment: health-associated cost of urban informal industrial sector
No full textMarginalised urban migrants thrive in informal economies, where health and safety are often neglected. Findings on previous studies have listed several informal characteristicsoccupational injuries and diseases in informal settingand components of health expenditure. This paper attempts to assess the health-associated cost in an informal industry through a questionnaire containing basic information of the respondent and household members, as well as economic and occupational assessments. The challenges that must be addressed include the different types of jobs surveyed, target population, biases from occupational/non-occupational cost and household/individual expenditure, and the validation method. This paper serves as a policy-tool reference to improve the well-being of informal workers by improving the nationwide workforce survey
Multi-Country Heat-COVID-19 Nexus Survey
No full textMulti-country, remote survey to evaluate the interplay between COVID-19 mitigation measures, heat-health and livelihoods for populations living in densely populated urban areas. Survey data available for Pakistan, India, Indonesia and Cameroon. Data collected remotely via mobile phone survey with ~4400 randomly identified respondents. Data available in CSV file format. Data generated as part of the ESRC/GCRF project "Cool Infrastructures: Life with heat in the Off Grid City (ES/T008091/1), with additional funding from the Scottish Funding Council.Amir, Sulfikar; Anwar, Nausheen; Cross, Jamie; Friedrich, Daniel; Harkness, Rachel; Khandekar, Aalok; Morelle, Marie; Nastiti, Anindrya; Oppermann, Elspeth. (2020). Multi-country survey of heat-health during COVID-19, 2020 [dataset]. University of Edinburgh. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/2961
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
FACTORS INFLUENCING THE INTENTION TO PARTICIPATE IN DISCARDED FACE MASK MANAGEMENT AMONG URBAN RESIDENTS
Get PDFMassive mask usage during the COVID-19 pandemic has been causing increased mask waste problem. Improper mask management can spread virus in the environment. Proper mask waste management behaviours must be investigated to better understand the underlying factors. Studies have focused on mask waste management in Indonesia, but none have used a comprehensive behavioural framework. This study integrates the Theory of Planned behaviour (TPB) and the Norm Activation Model (NAM) aiming to determine the factors that influence the intentions of Pekanbaru’s residents in managing mask waste. The survey involved 384 respondents selected through a systematic cluster random sampling. The data was analysed with PLS-SEM to verify the model. We hypothesised that awareness of consequences, the ascription of responsibility, subjective and personal norms, attitudes, and perceived behavioural control positively affect behaviour. Attitudes (p \u3c 0.05, t = 2.681), personal norms (p \u3c 0.05, t = 6.708), and perceived behavioral control (p \u3c 0.05, t = 5.846) are also positively and significantly related to mask waste management intention. Awareness of consequences has a significant indirect effect on mask waste management intention through attitude (p \u3c 0.05, t = 2.638), and the highest indirect effects are through ascription of responsibility and personal norms (p \u3c 0.05, t = 4.885). The consequence of awareness, ascription of responsibility, and personal norms are essential elements in enhancing motivations for taking responsibility and participating in household waste management. Demographics such as age and monthly expenses significantly affect mask waste management intentions. This work offers a novel integration of TPB and NAM, which enhances research on the behavioural intents of household mask waste management. Based on the results, the policy implications of how to motivate society to sort waste were discussed, and research limitations were indicated
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
Pro-environmental behaviours and protection motivation theory: a case of two universities in Bandung, Indonesia
Get PDFMaladaptive behaviour towards the environment can threaten environmental conditions and this requires a more in-depth analysis. Students as part of the younger generation have the responsibility as educators, planners, and policymakers on environmental issues for a sustainable future so that research on university students’ pro-environmental behaviour is needed. This study adopted a developed causal model of pro-environmental behaviour based on Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) in a sample of 363 Indonesian university students. This theory is expected to identify barriers and impulses in carrying out pro-environmental behaviour. Based on the results, environmental attitude, self-efficacy, response costs, intrinsic and extrinsic rewards from maladaptive behaviour to the environment, and perceived severity of respondents' have a direct and significant effect on pro-environmental behaviour. In addition, perceived vulnerability has an indirect effect on pro-environmental behaviour through the level of perceived severity. Improving pro-environmental behaviour for students could be focused on environmental attitude and self-efficacy through environmental protection based on a tested causal modelPerilaku manusia dapat berpengaruh positif dan negatif terhadap lingkungan. Perilaku maladaptif terhadap lingkungan dapat mengancam kondisi lingkungan dan hal ini perlu dilakukan analisis yang lebih mendalam. Mahasiswa sebagai bagian dari generasi muda mempunyai tanggung jawab sebagai pendidik, perencana, dan pembuat kebijakan masalah lingkungan di masa depan yang berkelanjutan sehingga diperlukan penelitian mengenai perilaku pro-lingkungan pada mahasiswa. Penelitian ini menggunakan adopsi model kausal berdasarkan Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) pada sampel 363 mahasiswa Indonesia. Teori ini diharapkan dapat mengidentifikasi hambatan dan dorongan dalam melakukan perilaku pro-lingkungan. Berdasarkan hasil, sikap lingkungan, keyakinan diri, biaya respon, imbalan intrinsik dan ektrinsik dari perilaku maladaptif terhadap lingkungan, dan keparahan yang dirasakan responden memiliki pengaruh langsung dan signifikan terhadap perilaku pro-lingkungan. Selain itu, tingkat kerentanan memiliki pengaruh tidak langsung terhadap perilaku pro-lingkungan melalui tingkat keparahan. Peningkatan perilaku pro-lingkungan bagi mahasiswa dapat difokuskan pada sikap lingkungan dan keyakinan diri melalui perlindungan lingkungan berdasarkan model kausal yang sudah diuji
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
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