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Community knowledge, Attitude and Preparedness for Flood risk Reduction in Loikaw Township ( Nyo Nyo Aung, 2025)
Full text linkThis study examines the level of community knowledge, attitudes, and
preparedness regarding flood risk reduction in Loikaw Township, particularly in
response to the 2024 Yagi flood. Using a mixed-methods approach, data were
collected through structured household surveys (n=250) and key informant interviews
with local officials, community leaders, and disaster management actors. The study
reveals that while general awareness of flood risks is high, practical preparedness
remains limited due to resource constraints and gaps in early warning dissemination.
Attitudes toward community participation are positive, but formal engagement in
disaster planning is low. Government agencies play a central role, yet coordination
with civil society and local stakeholder needs improvement. The findings highlight
the need for localized Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) training, investment in
infrastructure, and inclusive preparedness planning. This research contributes to
understanding how community-based disaster risk reduction strategies can strengthen
resilience and inform policy at the township level
FARMER KNOWLEDGE FOR CREDIT ACCESS AND FARM PRODUCTIVITY (A CASE STUDY IN MAWLAMYAINGKYUN) (Khin Nyo Nyo Aung, 2018)
No full textThe purpose of this study is to examine the roles of financial providers in agricultural financing in Mawlamyine Kyun region and to explore the farmer knowledge of the important requirements to access credit from these different financial providers at this region. As a survey instrument, structured questionnaire was prepared to examine their important requirements for agriculture financing. On the other hand, the study explored the important requirements of financial providers of the farmers to borrow required agriculture credit. Sample of (127 farmers in that region) and (23 employees who are from total 6 financial providers) are randomly selected. Farmer knowledge of the important requirements is calculated by deducting farmer knowledge from the expectations of financial providers. Regarding to the important access, study focuses on the important requirements are collateral, character, capacity, capital, condition, loan size, ability, farm size, spouse knowledge whether the spouse able to manage the application of loan reasonably, membership to the association and having sales contract to the financial providers. Finance requirement of the viewpoints of all the agriculture loan providers are microfinance association and Mya Sein Yaung NGO association perceived membership is the most important requirement, whereas, private banks perceived presence of sales contract and collaterals are the most important requirement. Myanma Agriculture Development Bank (MADB) perceived collateral and presence of sales contract as very important requirements and agriculture traders perceived the presence of sales contract as important requirements. From the analysis on farmers’ knowledge requirements to obtain agriculture loan, are found as lower expectation than the expectation of the financial providers. In the last analysis of the farmer knowledge requirements to the crop production is made using regression analysis. Among the total financial providers, MFI has impact on farm performance, and farmers are also found as their policy for short term loan and small amount would not distinctly growing the paddy production
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
Determination of Calorie Contents of Myanmar Snacks from Thanlyin Township
No full textThe main aim of our project work is to determine the calorie content of the five items of Myanmar snacks such as shwe hta min, kauk nyin htoke, mont kywe the, htan thee mont, and mont sein paung from Thanlyin Township. In this research work vitamin B1content was determined by fluorometric method. The highest content of vitamin B1 (0.057mg %) was found in htan thee mont. The protein, carbohydrate, and fat contents were also determined and the highest contents were found in mont sein paung and the values are 4.13g/100g; 39.95g/100g; and l.88g/100g respectively. Mineral contents of the five items of Myanmar snacks were also determined by AAS method. Phosphorous content was the highest in mont sein paung (56.99 mg%); iron content was the highest in htan thee mont (12.17 mg%); sodium, magnesium and potassium contents were the highest in kauk nyin htoke and the values were 10.58 ppm; 4.21 ppm and 7.29 ppm respectively. Calcium content was the highest in mont kywe the (143.08 mg %). The highest energy values of total digestible nutrient were calculated for the given samples and the highest value (187.21 cal/100g) was found in mont sein paung. According to the observation of this work it is clear that among the five items, mont sein paung has the highest calorie content as well as energy value. Not only mont sein paung but also other four items (shwe hta min, kauk nyin htoke, mont kywe the, and htan thee mont) have enough
calorie contents to meet human energy requirements
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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