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Ranking desertification indicators using TOPSIS algorithm
No full textDesertification is the result of natural and anthropogenic processes, leading to
degradation or loss of the land’s productivity and complexity. To assess the desertification
status, integrated set of indicators must be identified. Indicators must provide synthetic
information on threshold levels, status and evolution of relevant physical, chemical, biological
and anthropogenic processes. Multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) is a collection
of methodologies to compare, select, or rank multiple alternatives that involve
incommensurate attributes. Technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution
(TOPSIS) method is a multiple criteria method to identify solutions from a finite set.
TOPSIS is an algorithm for determining the most preferable choices among the possible
indicators that can be developed. The aim of this paper is to introduce TOPSIS as a
decision-making method for the selection and integration of desertification indicators. The
simulation case study presented here is related to the selection of the best set of indicators
to monitor land degradation by remote sensing in three different countries (Brazil,
Mozambique and Portugal), within the framework defined by the DesertWatch Extension
project
Moisture Content Determination in Walnuts by Using a Sound Detector: Preliminary Results
No full textThis study explores a sound processing technique for non-destructive moisture content determination in walnuts. Moreover, there is a need for technology that accurately measures moisture content, with the possibility to be portable, inexpensive, and adaptable to various types of food. Current low-cost methods lack precision, while accurate methods are costly and impractical for small-scale use. The method uses a soundproof box with a microphone connected to a laptop to record the sound of walnut samples dropped through a hole in the top of the box. Twenty walnut samples, with moisture content ranging from 23.5% to 45.9% and weights from 17.4 to 31.6 grams, were dried in a convection oven at 40°C for 26 hours to reach 8% (MC). Then, the 20 samples were additionally dried until fully desiccated at 103°C for 16 hours. The sound recordings were analysed using Audacity software, Sampling (t1, Hzl, Db) to determine moisture content. The results showed a positive correlation between measured and predicted moisture content, indicating the method's potential as a low-cost, real-time moisture determination tool, offering significant time and cost advantages over traditional methods
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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