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Seating Charts that Work: 6 Common Dining Room Floor Plan Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
No full textHaving the wrong dining room layout can lead to poor service, unhappy guests, unproductive employees, and missed opportunities to maximize revenue. The author not only remembers the floor plans of restaurants she has visited, but also studies the design and functionality of their dining rooms
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
The Effects Of Fluorescent Versus Led Lighting On Soldiers In Military Shelters
Full text linkThe current study examines the effects of fluorescent versus LED lighting on Soldiers in military shelters. To ensure a naturalistic setting, 23 enrolled U.S. Army infantry Soldiers performed a series of tasks in a Tent Expandable Modular Personnel (TEMPER) military shelter. The tasks included: visual acuity task, military map task, tent attractiveness questionnaire, mood assessment and conflict resolution scales. These tasks were chosen based on a stressors paradigm that highlights the typical stressors of military members (e.g. interpersonal conflict, psychological distress, high workload, and worries about living environment quality). Results show that overall lighting color temperature and illuminance levels do not play a role in Soldier performance and behavior, yet the study elucidates a number of limitations such as short lighting exposure time which may contribute to the results. The current study adds to the limited research on LED lighting and proposes several new areas of exploration such as determining time thresholds for the effects of lighting on humans
Students’ Perspectives Of Their Learning Spaces: An Ecologic Case Study Of Sage Hall
Full text linkA recent trend in the corporate work style, mobile working, has caused the boundaries between traditional work spaces to become blurred. In a higher education setting, these boundaries can become even more blurred as college students often use the same spaces to do various activities. The goal of this study was to explore the design features of informal work settings in Sage Hall, on the campus of Cornell University, that are perceived as important by the Business School students, and to identify key design features that are associated with students' preference of space for work. A multi-tool method was developed in this study, including traditional methods of a survey and interview, as well as a non-traditional data collection method that utilized photographs. It was found that access to technology, particularly electrical outlets, and access to natural light were most important to students. A new method of visualizing work space preference, the bivariate choropleth, was also explored. Serving as a pilot study on critical characteristics of informal learning and working environments, this thesis also generated research design suggestions for future studies on this intriguing topic
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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