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The colour studio in crisis? Embracing change
No full textTeaching color to students of architecture and design within the higher education sector is becoming more of a luxury than of core business. With increasing financial demands, reduced resources, and increasing student numbers, educators are required to think laterally to cater for change without sacrificing learning objectives. This paper raises some of the issues involved in the educative climate within one Australian university setting. Using a reflective narrative, educational objectives are defined, the implementation of new modes of 'teaching' as a means of coping with higher student numbers and reduced staffing and technical resources are described, and the outcomes in terms of student learning over an eight year period are critiqued. Institutional management policy is forcing the educator to re-evaluate the value of the traditional studio, and the intensive 'hands- on' interactive approach that traditionally is integral to such an approach. As curriculum development involves not only theory and project work, the classroom culture, the physical environment and the University and School context need to be addressed. Generic skills, in association with professional knowledge and skills, should be addressed, and therefore, opportunities for teaching a traditionally studio-based subject on-line as a computer based unit would appear to be limited. This discussion aims to pose questions, as well as reflecting upon successes and failures in this area of education within the University context. There is a need to embrace the contextual demands while ensuring that the student knowledge of color, and the joy of discovering its characteristics in practice, are not sacrificed but enhanced
Proposal of Whittingtonocotyle n. gen. (Dactylogyroidea: Dactylogyridae), with the description of two new species from the gills of Hoplerythrinus unitaeniatus (Characiformes: Erythrinidae) in Brazil
No full textSantos Neto, João F., Rodrigues, Allan R. O., Domingues, Marcus V. (2015): Proposal of Whittingtonocotyle n. gen. (Dactylogyroidea: Dactylogyridae), with the description of two new species from the gills of Hoplerythrinus unitaeniatus (Characiformes: Erythrinidae) in Brazil. Zootaxa 3937 (1): 191-200, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3937.1.1
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
Convivência com o Semiárido: a percepção do uso das tecnologias sociais hídricas em Ouro Branco-AL
No full textIn the semi-arid region of Brazil, public policies for coping with drought have assumed significant relevance from the perspective of knowledge appropriation and application of technologies adapted to the local context. Among the possibilities, Social Water Technologies (STs) are essential, especially in rural areas with water scarcity due to the natural cycle of droughts. The One Million Cisterns Program - P1MC has been a successful experience. Specifically in the semi-arid region of Alagoas, the municipality of Ouro Branco stands out, where the program was implemented, as well as other strategies for living with water scarcity. Thus, the general objective of this research is to analyze the main contributions and socio-environmental impacts of the SRHs for coping with drought in the rural area of the municipality of Ouro Branco-AL. The procedures for the collection of information were developed in four stages: documental, bibliographical and photographic survey; diagnosis, by means of visits for the recognition of the HRTs existing in the communities; visits to the Municipal Secretary of Agriculture to obtain information about the localities subsequently mapped; application of questionnaires with the population and; realization of semi-structured interviews to help in the understanding of the use of the HRTs. We verified the possibilities of actions that, if properly prioritized, can significantly mitigate the socio-environmental impacts associated with drought, a historically recurring natural phenomenon in the semi-arid region. The actions related to the conditions imposed by nature should be formulated in the sense of coexistence, with technological strategies built on the basis of knowledge generated locally and collectively. Some HRTs were presented: weir, underground dam, clay pit, trench pit, popular water pump, cacimba, automatic detour, artesian well, stone tank, and cisterns. The governmental programs P1MC and P1+2 were considered important for rural families in the semi-arid region, regarding access to drinking water. In the municipality of Ouro Branco-AL, the HRTs verified are cisterns, weirs, artesian wells, and dams. However, the still persistent use of carro pipa and the little development of local agriculture and livestock are socio-environmental indicators that there is still much to do to achieve local water securityNa região semiárida do Brasil, as políticas públicas de convivência com a seca assumem significativa relevância na perspectiva da apropriação do conhecimento e aplicação de tecnologias adaptadas ao local. Dentre as possibilidades, as Tecnologias Sociais Hídricas – TSHs são essenciais, sobretudo nas áreas rurais que possuem escassez de água em função do ciclo natural das secas. O Programa Um Milhão de Cisternas – P1MC foi uma experiência exitosa. Especificamente no semiárido alagoano, destaca-se o município de Ouro Branco, onde o programa foi implantado, além de outras estratégias de convivência com a escassez hídrica. Assim, o objetivo geral desta pesquisa é analisar as principais contribuições e impactos socioambientais das TSHs para a convivência com a seca na zona rural do município de Ouro Branco-AL. Os procedimentos de coleta de informações foram desenvolvidos em quatro etapas: levantamento documental, bibliográfico e fotográfico; diagnóstico, por meio de visitas de reconhecimento das TSHs existentes nas comunidades; visitas à Secretaria Municipal de Agricultura para obter informações sobre as localidades posteriormente mapeadas; aplicação de questionários com a população e; realização de entrevistas semiestruturadas para auxiliar na compreensão so uso das TSHs . Foram verificadas possibilidades de ações que, se devidamente priorizadas, podem mitigar de forma significativa os impactos socioambientais associados à seca, fenômeno natural historicamente recorrente no semiárido. As ações relacionadas às condições impostas pela natureza devem ser formuladas no sentido da convivência, com estratégias tecnológicas construídas com base no conhecimento gerado localmente e de forma coletiva. Foram apresentadas algumas TSHs: açude, barragem subterrânea, barreiro, barreiro de trincheira, bomba d'água popular, cacimba, desvio automático, poço artesiano, tanque de pedra e cisternas. Os programas governamentais P1MC e P1+2 foram consideradas como importantes para as famílias rurais do semiárido, no tocante ao acesso à água potável. No município de Ouro Branco-AL, as TSHs verificadas são as cisternas, açudes, poços artesianos e barragens. Contudo, o uso ainda persistente de carro pipa e o pouco desenvolvimento da agricultura e pecuária locais são indicadores socioambientais de que ainda existe muito a fazer para alcançar a segurança hídrica localCoordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPE
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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