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Observation of mating behavior between molly and guppy fish / Noor Adam Muhammad Zahari
Full text linkOrnamental fish has a variety of species with unique physical structure of the body and colorful coloration which made them being popular among the fish enthusiasts. Some of the ornamental fish that often sell at the most aquarium shops are the guppies and mollies. Guppies and mollies are known as the Poeciliids which categorized under the genus of Poecilia. However, mollies and guppies are not the same species. So, due to the less variation of ornamental fish in the market, this may be an interesting research to try and observe whether the two different species of ornamental fish could be mates thus the observation of their mating behavior will be important to prove the hypothesis. The most occurred mating behavior that had been observed were the tail beating and charging which clearly showed the sign of mating trials between them. Besides that, there were also frequent nibbling behavior occurred indicated the unfavorable mating trial. In a nutshell, mollies and guppy were not the most suitable pairs for mating due to the differences between them and thus the mating process were not possible to occurred
The effectiveness of CCTV implementation by municipal council for public safety / Mohd Noor Adam Mohd Nordin
No full textClosed Circuit Television Cameras (CCTV) have become an important crime prevention and security measure world-wide. In Malaysia, in the set up of the Safe City Program, CCTV is one of the integral parts of it. With the target of protecting the safety of the public, it is essential that a study being done to ensure the effectiveness CCTV system implementation in terms of enhancing safety with a relevant operational cost. In this dissertation, the aim and objectives are obviously to investigate the effectiveness of CCTV implementing in enhancing the safety of the public, to understand deeply on CCTV as a safety appliances, and at last to develop a conclusion on whether CCTV is the right option in overcoming safety problem and its effect in interrupting with the public privacy. The study and research is limited only on three major city area with municipal council that are Shah Alam (under Majlis Bandaraya Shah Alam municipal), Kuala Lumpur (under Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur municipal) and Subang Jaya (under Majlis Perbandaran Subang Jaya municipal). The research and data documented in this dissertation came from series of interview sessions with the particulars municipal’s expert in CCTV system, residence respond in the questionnaire and field trip to all three of the case studies area. From the entire information achieved, a conclusion on CCTV effectiveness can be resolved. Effectiveness here based on the opinion and perspective view of professional and expert of CCTV together with the respondent that live in the area where their municipals implemented CCTV. The outcome shows that majority of the public and all of the experts agree on the effectiveness of CCTV implementation for public safety but before that a very detail and particular research must be conducted, so that the CCTV system picked is the best in terms of its location, condition, coverage, quantity, safety provided, maintenance, no privacy intrusion and its overall performance
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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