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Reframing China's heritage conservation discourse. Learning by testing civic engagement tools in a historic rural village
Full text linkUrban heritage conservation in China has been subject to severe criticism, although there is now a sense of paradigm shift. Charters, declarations and agendas had the merit of filtering down the international discourse on heritage, while more innovative approaches were arising. The UNESCO Historic Urban Landscape recommendation, offers a new angle from which to observe this process of change. The underlying argument of this article is that HUL can provide a platform to achieve greater sustainability in transforming historic sites in China, particularly in rural areas, overcoming, at the same time, the easy shortcut of the East–West discourse of difference in respect to heritage conservation. This is primarily due to the shifting focus from the materiality of heritage to its role in sustainable development with increasing attention on the role played by local communities. By presenting the proposal for the protection of the historic rural village of Shuang Wan in the Jiangsu Province, this paper aims to reflect on this shift showing its advantages but also some of the risks. These are inherent in a discourse of heritage in danger of legitimising mere pro-growth development approaches, if not accompanied by participatory practices considerate of the specific social reality of China
Ruimte voor water in de stad: naar een meer geïntegreerde steden- en waterbouwkundige benadering.
No full textDit artikel geeft een overzicht van het lopende interdisciplinaire project van de KU Leuven en de PH Limburg 'Water onderzoek in Vlaams verstedelijkte landschappen'. Met de opkomst van een preventief en gedecentraliseerd waterbeleid in Europa en Vlaanderen de afgelopen jaren, wordt waterbeheer steeds meer synoniem met ruimte voor water creëren. Het vereist dan ook een intense samenwerking tussen de (lang gescheiden) disciplines van hydrologie en ruimtelijke ordening. Hoewel nieuwe beleidsinstrumenten voor een integraal waterbeleid onlangs zijn geïntroduceerd, blijft hun uitvoering in de complexe ruimtelijke en institutionele context van Vlaanderen een uitdaging. Om hieraan tegemoet te komen, onderzoekt dit project, nieuwe ontwikkelingsconcepten en -methodes voor een meer geïntegreerde stedenbouw -en waterbouwkundige benadering. Met de case van Turnhout ter illustratie, focust dit artikel meer specifiek op de mogelijke wisselwerkingen tussen stedelijke drainage-infrastructuur en ruimtelijke vraagstukken in sterk verstedelijkte gebieden
Ruimte voor water in de stad: naar een meer geïntegreerde steden- en waterbouwkundige benadering.
No full textDit artikel geeft een overzicht van het lopende interdisciplinaire project van de KU Leuven en de PH Limburg 'Water onderzoek in Vlaams verstedelijkte landschappen'. Met de opkomst van een preventief en gedecentraliseerd waterbeleid in Europa en Vlaanderen de afgelopen jaren, wordt waterbeheer steeds meer synoniem met ruimte voor water creëren. Het vereist dan ook een intense samenwerking tussen de (lang gescheiden) disciplines van hydrologie en ruimtelijke ordening. Hoewel nieuwe beleidsinstrumenten voor een integraal waterbeleid onlangs zijn geïntroduceerd, blijft hun uitvoering in de complexe ruimtelijke en institutionele context van Vlaanderen een uitdaging. Om hieraan tegemoet te komen, onderzoekt dit project, nieuwe ontwikkelingsconcepten en -methodes voor een meer geïntegreerde stedenbouw -en waterbouwkundige benadering. Met de case van Turnhout ter illustratie, focust dit artikel meer specifiek op de mogelijke wisselwerkingen tussen stedelijke drainage-infrastructuur en ruimtelijke vraagstukken in sterk verstedelijkte gebieden
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
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