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An assessment of Asian elephant population status in the main forest complexes of northern Peninsular Malaysia
No full textThe Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) is recognised for its important ecological role in maintaining the health of forest ecosystems as well as its cultural importance in many countries. Various causes, including habitat loss and fragmentation, human-elephant conflicts, and inadequate comprehension of their population dynamics, have been identified as threats to their existence and obstacles to conservation initiatives. Malaysia has the potential to protect this endangered species, but effective conservation requires a comprehensive understanding of its population and environment. This study focuses on the forest complexes in the northern region of Peninsular Malaysia that are known to be habitats for elephants. This study aims to provide scientific evidence to support the national elephant conservation action plan, with three main objectives: i) population density estimates; ii) habitat use prediction; and iii) population viability assessment in four main forest complexes across northern Peninsular Malaysia. The mean density estimate for wild elephants in the Greater Ulu Muda Forest Complex (GUMFC) is 0.17 elephants per km2 (CI 95%, 0.11-0.25), and the population size ranges from 185 to 420 elephants in an area of 1,629.31 km2. The findings highlight the significance of GUMFC as a vital landscape that supports the elephant population in the north. Habitats use predictions for three forest complexes (i.e., Gunung Inas-Bintang Hijau Forest Complex (GIBHFC), Royal Belum State Park (RBSP), and Temengor Forest Complex (TFC) proved that almost all areas in these forest complexes are suitable for elephants, but with a different degree of suitability. The ‘elevation’ and ‘distance to plantations’ showed a negative correlation with elephant habitat utilisation. Distance to the settlement was negatively associated with elephant habitat use in a quadratic manner. Finally, the population viability analysis conducted for the elephant population in GUMFC based on 52 scenarios revealed that it is at risk of extinction, mainly due to changes in carrying capacity (due to forest cover) and the removal of elephants from the landscape. This study emphasises the importance of elephant conservation initiatives to prioritise the preservation and conservation of elephants’ natural habitats, and develop effective human-elephant conflict management strategies, to ensure the viability of elephants in Peninsular Malaysia
An assessment of Asian elephant population status in the main forest complexes of northern Peninsular Malaysia
Full text linkThe Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) is recognised for its important ecological role in maintaining the health of forest ecosystems as well as its cultural importance in many countries. Various causes, including habitat loss and fragmentation, human-elephant conflicts, and inadequate comprehension of their population dynamics, have been identified as threats to their existence and obstacles to conservation initiatives. Malaysia has the potential to protect this endangered species, but effective conservation requires a comprehensive understanding of its population and environment. This study focuses on the forest complexes in the northern region of Peninsular Malaysia that are known to be habitats for elephants. This study aims to provide scientific evidence to support the national elephant conservation action plan, with three main objectives: i) population density estimates; ii) habitat use prediction; and iii) population viability assessment in four main forest complexes across northern Peninsular Malaysia. The mean density estimate for wild elephants in the Greater Ulu Muda Forest Complex (GUMFC) is 0.17 elephants per km2 (CI 95%, 0.11-0.25), and the population size ranges from 185 to 420 elephants in an area of 1,629.31 km2. The findings highlight the significance of GUMFC as a vital landscape that supports the elephant population in the north. Habitats use predictions for three forest complexes (i.e., Gunung Inas-Bintang Hijau Forest Complex (GIBHFC), Royal Belum State Park (RBSP), and Temengor Forest Complex (TFC) proved that almost all areas in these forest complexes are suitable for elephants, but with a different degree of suitability. The ‘elevation’ and ‘distance to plantations’ showed a negative correlation with elephant habitat utilisation. Distance to the settlement was negatively associated with elephant habitat use in a quadratic manner. Finally, the population viability analysis conducted for the elephant population in GUMFC based on 52 scenarios revealed that it is at risk of extinction, mainly due to changes in carrying capacity (due to forest cover) and the removal of elephants from the landscape. This study emphasises the importance of elephant conservation initiatives to prioritise the preservation and conservation of elephants’ natural habitats, and develop effective human-elephant conflict management strategies, to ensure the viability of elephants in Peninsular Malaysia
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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