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How Do Students Use the Outdoor Space on Campus? a Case Study on a Campus Design and Its Relation to Outdoor Activities
No full textThe number of college students suffering from psychological problems is a growing issue. For instance, 41.6% of college students are concerning anxiety, and 35.8% of students are experiencing depression (American Psychological Association, 2013). Recent studies have found that physical environments can promote physical activity and the health of users. For instance, attractive public open space encourages various users to enjoy physical activities and social communications, and poor building surroundings are more likely to increase the depression rates of the residents. A college campus is not only a setting for teaching and learning but also a living space where students live for several years. Students study, eat, play, sleep, and exercise, spending significant hours on campus. Furthermore, recent studies have reported that the physical environments of campus play critical roles in students’ physical and mental health. However, the importance of campus design is usually neglected compared to personal treatment (Baum & Fisher, 2014). Therefore, this study aims to identify design strategies and attributes that could encourage physical and social activities of college students on campus, which in turn will improve their health.
Using a higher education college campus in South Korea as a case study, this study investigates design attributes affecting college students’ physical and social activities on campus, especially focusing on the outdoor spaces. This study uses a mixed-method approach to demonstrate what characteristics affect students’ preference for the spaces.
Users’ experiences and opinions regarding campus outdoor environments are investigated by interviews and surveys. College students, including undergraduate and graduate students, were asked how often they use outdoor spaces, why they use those spaces and how much they are satisfied with the outdoor spaces. Simultaneously, the physical attributes of the outdoor environments are analyzed and quantified using various spatial analysis tools, including Space Syntax and GIS. This process is expected to find a correlation between students’ perception of the outdoor space and its physical elements. The data will be gathered and visualized in GIS and it will be analyzed using multiple statistical analysis methods. The process aims to find the relationships between students’ experiences and characteristics of campus outdoor spaces.
Based on this result, the status quo of outdoor environments for students will be organized and the design strategy for improvement will be suggested. The findings of this study are expected to contribute to improving students’ physical and mental health through the design of the college campus
Physiological and Mental Factors for Health Designs Associated with Underground Spaces: What New Criteria Do People Need to Improve the Negative Perception of People Who Want to Live in Underground Areas?
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No full textThe purpose of this study was to extract buildings located within flood and landslide hazard areas using spatial information of domestic buildings. By identifying the characteristics of buildings in disaster-prone regions, this research aims to contribute to the identification of buildings requiring urgent preparation. This study employed a combination of building ledger data and land characteristic information to generate building spatial data. Building properties were defined based on the number of basement floors and the years that elapsed since the use approval date of the buildings. The resulting building spatial data were then categorized into seven distinct clusters based on their properties. To analyze the differences, ANOVA and posthoc tests were conducted to examine the average variances in flood hours and landslide hazard rates among the seven clusters. Furthermore, this study identified the building properties located within flood and landslide hazard areas. By implementing the proposed method, central and local governments can more efficiently and effectively prevent accidents in buildings during disasters through proactive measures.
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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