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Hands-on harvest: Participatory organic farming education on campus
Get PDF Organic farming is a sustainable practice that uses mechanical, biological, and agronomic techniques to improve agro-ecosystem health, biodiversity, and eliminate artificial off-farm inputs. It involves converting land to organic management, managing biodiversity, using alternative nutrients, managing weeds and pests, and maintaining livestock in harmony with organic concepts. Contemporary youth, mainly in developing nations, are crucial for agriculture, but attracting and retaining them in organic farming is essential for food security and employment. The study is significant for its focus on promoting sustainable practices, experiential learning, interdisciplinary education, community engagement, health and wellness, economic benefits, research and innovation, and policy and advocacy. This study investigates the role of student participation (arts and science colleges) in organic farming initiatives on campus and its impacts on learning outcomes and personality growth. The study uses organic pedagogy as a framework for participatory learning in organic farming, focusing on student engagement, competency development, social commitment, and promoting sustainable food systems. The findings show that active engagement in organic farming enhances students' understanding of sustainable agricultural practices, fosters critical thinking, strengthens community bonds, and cultivates essential skills like teamwork, problem-solving, and environmental stewardship. The research advocates for the integration of organic farming practices into academic curricula to promote holistic learning and a culture of sustainability among students
Beyond the Waves : Ethnic Socio-Cultural Life and Transforming Women's Roles in the Alappuzha Sea Fishermen Community
Get PDFFishing communities, one of the oldest worldwide, have lived along coasts for centuries, intertwined with the seas for daily and long-term needs (Venkataraman & Raghunathan, 2015). Kerala's sea fisher folk, particularly in Alappuzha, have distinct ethnic heritage and traditional knowledge of the sea and fisheries. Their livelihoods are ensured by using this knowledge to guide their fishing activities, understand weather patterns, manage resources, and handle post-harvest. The article discusses the value of fishing as a way of life and the distinctive cultural customs of the fishing community, such as the ethnic as well as the social customs. It draws attention to the difficulties the community faces, including dwindling fish stocks, deteriorating environmental conditions, and the effects of globalization on their means of subsistence. Through an ethnographic study, this research aims to understand the cultural practices, social relationships, and economic activities of the fishermen community. The experiences and roles of women are the main emphasis of this paper's sociocultural analysis of the sea fishing community in Alappuzha. The study also examines the ways in which cultural norms, economic pursuits, and conventions affect women's lives using a qualitative research technique. The findings emphasize the value of women's contributions to the community's way of life, but they also draw attention to the difficulties women encounter in carrying out their responsibilities in a patriarchal societyLa comunidad pesquera, una de las más antiguas del mundo, ha vivido cerca de las costas durante siglos, relacionándose con el mar para cubrir sus necesidades a corto y largo plazo (Venkataraman & Raghunathan, 2015). Los pescadores de Kerala, concretamente en Alappuzha, tienen una herencia étnica particular y un conocimiento tradicional del mar y de la pesca. Garantizan su sustento a través de su conocimiento de esta industria, siendo capaces de entender patrones climáticos, gestionar sus recursos y lidiar con la época posterior a la cosecha. Este artículo analiza el valor de la pesca como modo de vida y las costumbres culturales particulares de esta industria como las étnicas y sociales. Se centra en las dificultades que la comunidad afronta, incluyendo la disminución de las reservas pesqueras, las condiciones medioambientales en deterioro y las consecuencias de la globalización en sus modos de subsistencia. A través de un estudio etnográfico, esta investigación aspira a entender las costumbres culturales, relaciones sociales y actividades económicas de esta comunidad. El artículo tiene como foco analítico sociocultural las experiencias y el papel de la mujer en la comunidad pesquera de Alappuzha. El estudio también examina, a través de una investigación cualitativa, la forma en la que las normas culturales, metas económicas y costumbres de esta comunidad afectan a la vida de las mujeres. Los resultados enfatizan la importancia del papel de las mujeres en la forma de vida de la comunidad, pero también destacan las dificultades que estas encuentran al llevar a cabo sus responsabilidades en una sociedad patriarcal
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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