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Caracterização e percepção ambiental da comunidade na zona de amortecimento do Parque Estadual Vitório Piassa, Pato Branco - PR
Full text linkThe Conservation Units (CUs) are understood as being a territorial space and its environmental resources, and the institutions by the public power, whose main principle is a conservation system, while guaranteeing protection. The State Parks obligatory need a Damping Zone (DZ). The ZA consists of the surroundings of a CU, where activities should be submitted to restrictions, which are not able to become negative. One of the difficulties for the protection of the natural environments is the perception and values that people bring with it. The studies that evaluate the environmental perception of individuals serve as educational and transformative instruments, when they provide the conditions for reflection on the relation between society and the environment. The study object of this work is the community belonging to the DZ of the Vitório Piassa State Park (VPSP), Pato Branco - PR. We diagnosed the environmental perception of the community around the Park and the social actors involved. The DZ was established with a 500 m buffer, and then the land use and occupation was classified. A questionnaire on environmental perception was applied in the Park DZ community, sampling 143 interviewees. With this data a multivariate statistical analysis was carried out by the techniques of factorial and discriminant analysis. Through the factorial analysis it was possible to list the most significant questions of the research that were about: i) location of the Park; ii) importance of green areas; iii) leisure; iv) environmental education; v) research and studies in these areas; vi) agreement with the implementation and infrastructure of the Park. Discriminant analysis showed that there were distinctions in answers according to the social classes evaluated (sex, age, residence, family income, schooling and occupation), some more evident, such as the local of residence of the interviewees. This information can be useful for a better management of the Park. Although the VPSP is an Integral Protection Conservation Unit located within an urban area, it is not simply a green area. The management organs as well as the population of the municipality should be stimulated for the conservation of the nature in the Park, by its use through environmental education, ecotourism and contemplation of the nature, and not simply aim at the mass leisure of high environmental impact.Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)As Unidades de Conservação (UCs) são compreendidas como sendo o espaço territorial e os seus recursos ambientais, instituídas pelo poder público, que tem por objetivo principal a conservação, ao qual se aplicam garantias adequadas de proteção. Os Parques Estaduais necessitam obrigatoriamente de uma Zona de Amortecimento (ZA). A ZA consiste no entorno de uma UC, onde as atividades humanas estão submetidas a normas e restrições específicas, no qual se tem o intuito de reduzir os impactos negativos do entorno na unidade. Uma das dificuldades para a proteção dos ambientes naturais é a própria percepção e valores que os indivíduos da comunidade trazem consigo. Os trabalhos que avaliam a percepção ambiental do indivíduo com o meio, servem como instrumentos educativos e transformadores, quando propiciam às condições de reflexão da relação homem e meio ambiente. O objeto de estudo desse trabalho é a comunidade pertencente a ZA do Parque Estadual Vitório Piassa (PEVP), Pato Branco-PR. O presente trabalho teve como objetivo diagnosticar a percepção ambiental da comunidade do entorno do PEVP e os atores sociais envolvidos. Foi estabelecido uma ZA de 500 m de buffer, e depois classificado o uso e ocupação do solo das áreas pertencente a esse zoneamento. Aplicou-se um questionário sobre percepção ambiental na comunidade da ZA do Parque, em uma amostragem de 143 entrevistados. Com os dados deste questionário foi realizada uma análise estatística multivariada pelas técnicas de análise fatorial e análise discriminante. Através da análise fatorial foi possível elencar as questões mais significantes da pesquisa que foram sobre: i) localização do Parque; ii) importância das áreas verdes; iii) lazer; iv) educação ambiental; v) pesquisas e estudos nessas áreas; vi) concordância com a implantação e infraestrutura do Parque. Por meio da análise discriminante constatou-se que houveram distinções nas respostas dos entrevistados em função das classes sociais avaliadas (sexo, idade, residência, renda familiar, escolaridade e profissão), algumas mais evidentes, como o local de residência dos mesmos. Estas informações podem ser úteis para uma melhor gestão do Parque. Apesar do PEVP ser uma Unidade de Conservação de Proteção Integral localizada dentro de zona urbana, não é simplesmente uma área verde. Os órgãos gestores, como também a população do município devem ser sensibilizados, utilizando para a conservação da natureza pelo seu uso através de educação ambiental, ecoturismo e contemplação da natureza, e não visar simplesmente o lazer convencional de massa de alto impacto ambiental
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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