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    "EARTH" without "ART" is just "EH" An environmental psychological approach on climate change communication through art

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    Art is seen as a catalyst for societal change and a cultural transformation is exactly what is needed, in order to address one of the biggest challenges humankind is facing – climate change. Many environmental artists have chosen the topic in their work and want to raise awareness – but how successful are they and what impact does their art have on people? Results of this psychological dissertation show that environmental art affects its viewers emotionally, and their thinking. When seeing a piece of climate change art, people begin to reflect on the connection between their own life and behaviour and climate change. These reflections are very important for people to feel motivated to make changes in their daily lives and to reduce their carbon footprint. It appears that the difference between a piece of climate change art and other ways of communicating about climate change, is the personal space the art gives to people. It does not provide information and instructions on how to act, but it opens the possibility for people to make a personal and emotional connection with climate change. To find the psychological mechanism with which environmental art “works”, scientists and artists collaborated within the Climart project. For Climart several studies were done with questionnaires and statistical analyses of the data, on a wide range of art. This approach made it possible to look beyond cases of specific art and at the whole genre of environmental art, enabling identification of effective characteristics of such art. The Climart team also collaborated with the internationally renowned artist, Michael Pinsky, who created the installation “Pollution Pods”. This immersive installation was rigorously evaluated, adding to the findings of Climart and the present dissertation. Recommendations for artists and climate change campaigners are given on how to increase the impact of their creative practice or campaigns. “Pollution Pods” was first exhibited in Trondheim in 2017, then London in 2018 and has since travelled the world, inspiring people to take action against climate change and air pollution

    "EARTH" without "ART" is just "EH" An environmental psychological approach on climate change communication through art

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    Art is seen as a catalyst for societal change and a cultural transformation is exactly what is needed, in order to address one of the biggest challenges humankind is facing – climate change. Many environmental artists have chosen the topic in their work and want to raise awareness – but how successful are they and what impact does their art have on people? Results of this psychological dissertation show that environmental art affects its viewers emotionally, and their thinking. When seeing a piece of climate change art, people begin to reflect on the connection between their own life and behaviour and climate change. These reflections are very important for people to feel motivated to make changes in their daily lives and to reduce their carbon footprint. It appears that the difference between a piece of climate change art and other ways of communicating about climate change, is the personal space the art gives to people. It does not provide information and instructions on how to act, but it opens the possibility for people to make a personal and emotional connection with climate change. To find the psychological mechanism with which environmental art “works”, scientists and artists collaborated within the Climart project. For Climart several studies were done with questionnaires and statistical analyses of the data, on a wide range of art. This approach made it possible to look beyond cases of specific art and at the whole genre of environmental art, enabling identification of effective characteristics of such art. The Climart team also collaborated with the internationally renowned artist, Michael Pinsky, who created the installation “Pollution Pods”. This immersive installation was rigorously evaluated, adding to the findings of Climart and the present dissertation. Recommendations for artists and climate change campaigners are given on how to increase the impact of their creative practice or campaigns. “Pollution Pods” was first exhibited in Trondheim in 2017, then London in 2018 and has since travelled the world, inspiring people to take action against climate change and air pollution

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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

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    We 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

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    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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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