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Colle et décolle les jolies images adhésives
No full textOriginally done, apparently in Italian, by Gruppo EdiCART in Legnano in 1997. Four stories here, for the first of which, FS, there are two pages of text and two scenes. For each of the other three (WL, The Cat and the Mouse, and The Cock on a Litter) there is one page of text and one full page of an empty scene. The Cat and the Mouse presents the cat who has been so successful that he needs a ruse to capture more mice. He plays dead, and one mouse says Even if you are dead, it is not us who will go to confirm it! The irony is that Phaedrus' version of this fable (IV 2) has the cat disguising himself in flour, not as a corpse! There are thirty-nine different stickers which one can place on the scenes. Nice color work, and a great simple idea!This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Language note: FrenchLucie Mollo
Colle et décolle les jolies images adhésives
No full textOriginally done, apparently in Italian, by Gruppo EdiCART in Legnano in 1997. There are four verse stories here (though not La Fontaine's own text), for the first of which, FC, there are two pages of text and two almost identical scenes. For each of the other three (OF, The Weasel in a Granary, and The Lion in War) there is one page of text and one full page of an empty scene. There are twenty-nine different stickers which one can place on the scenes. The overly plump weasel makes a great little sticker, and one can have fun trying to hang the monkey onto one of the vines near King Lion's headquarters. Alas, there is no sticker for the post-explosion frog that has burst! Nice color work, and a great simple idea!This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Language note: FrenchLucie Mollo
Enhancing urban water resilience through stormwater reuse for toilet flushing
No full textDroughts can sometimes make water supply critical, particularly in urban areas, which are particularly vulnerable to water scarcity due to the growing demand caused by urbanization. To improve the resilience of water networks, the use of alternative water resources, such as rainwater, can support traditional networks. The present study proposes a new version of an analytic-probabilistic approach to evaluate the probability of stormwater reuse for toilet flushing. It considers water demand as a random variable in the modelling, simplifies the contribution of previous rainfalls to rainwater availability, and makes use of a cloud-streaming platform for the statistical analysis and predictions of users’ consumptions. The equations were tested in a case study in a residential district of the city of Palermo (Italy), where a field campaign collected measurements for water demand from toilet flushing for different users and roof surfaces. The validation of the new formulas confirms the reliability of the model, which allows for expeditious verification of the efficiency of rainwater harvesting systems under different weather and demand conditions. It serves as a supporting tool in both the design and performance estimation of such systems, contributing to the sustainable management of water resources
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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