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Gjenbruk av plast
No full textSom faglærer i utdanningsprogrammet Kunst, Design og Arkitektur, hvor vi har et stort fokus på bærekraft, ønsket jeg med denne masteravhandlingen å lære mer om gjenbruk av plast som et formbart materiale.
Jeg håper ved å samle kunnskap om gjenbruk av plast, kunne gi elever og lærere en større forståelse av potensialene som ligger i materialet. Slik at de kan se gjenbruk i en større sammenheng enn bare redesign arbeid med bærekraft. Kanskje det å arbeide med gjenbruk av plast som et formingsmateriale, vil gi et annerledes perspektiv rundt
det å tenke form. Slik at elever i en formingsprosess former materialet til ønsket form, og ikke bare bruker formen på det valgt materiale slik det er.
Jeg har arbeidet kvalitativt og med tre hovedfokusområder har jeg sett på gjenbruk av plast som et formbart materiale, gjenbruk av plast i en formingsprosess mot et produkt med forlenget levetid, og bruk av gjenbruk av plast innenfor helse, miljø og sikkerhet.
Jeg har vekselvis arbeidet i tre faser. Samlet informasjon om forskjellige plastvarianter, ha en eksperimentell materialutforskning i egen formingsprosess, og undersøkt nye perspektiver på plast som formbart materiale i elevers skapende prosess. Jeg har forsket på egen arbeidsplass med videregående skoleelever i programvalgfaget Design og Bærekraft.
I et eksperimenterende møte med materialet har jeg tatt utgangspunkt i
erfaringsbasert teori, hvor elevene og jeg har arbeidet problemløsende.
Med en metodologisk a-r-t-ografisk tilnærming har jeg samlet data, som så er analysert for å finne svar på problemstillingen: Hvilke formbare potensialer har gjenbruk av plast som materiale i en bærekraftdidaktisk sammenheng?
Ved å innhente kunnskap om de forskjellige plastvariantene har jeg kunnet ta gode valg med tanke på å ivareta helse, miljø og sikkerhet, i arbeid med gjenbruk av plast i et didaktisk undervisningsopplegg og eget skapende arbeid. Observert elevene i sin formingsprosess, med mange muligheter og etiske valg mot et produkt med lenger leveti
Survey By Play: Pro-ecological understandings of outdoor landscapes
Full text linkThe research presents the hypothesis that play is our primary human mode of environmental relationality, and playfulness is our most vital human survey modality. The thesis presents a “survey by play” that is explored through qualitative methodologies in two suburban neighbourhoods in Norway and the United States. The research aims to contribute to play theory and sustain pro-ecological ways of relating to outdoor landscapes as ecological neighbourhoods in the context of systemic global ecosystem change, habitat loss and species extinction. It is intended for both academics and urban realm professionals. The research question asks how humans relate to outdoor landscapes through play and playfulness. The theoretical frame of the research focuses on decentering the human from stories of the world. A survey by play theory is underpinned by posthuman and vital materialism epistemologies. An abductive analysis approach is used to assemble surprising, temporal, dynamic, situated and partial perspectives of the world. Theories of play are presented, encompassing disruption, imagination, sensation and affect. These are examined as ways to challenge the powerful omniscience of rapid advancements in digital survey technologies, including remote sensing, robotic surveyance and satellite cartography powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning. Critical cartographic and deep mapping methodologies are used to address the complexity of surveying outdoor landscapes through play and playfulness. A range of methods are used: visual and multi-sensory methods, walking and play interviews, participatory observation and movement, wondering and wandering, art making and performative improvisation. A methodology of “returning differently” was also crucial to the research, allowing for temporal and dynamic understandings. The multifaceted and complex findings are assembled as four identifiable themes: 1) the importance of play and playfulness as affective geographies which offer accounts of relationships between humans, more than humans and lively matter, including water and rock, 2) the influence of individual and collective “play cultures”, formed intergenerationally over time as situated meaning making and value creation, 3) play as part of the “porosity” of matter which disrupts notions of distant or unrelated “others” and makes explicit both our human material interchange with plants trees, water, soil and insects as well as the continuous mix of meaning making through languages, physical movement and imagination and 4) playfulness as the radical foundation of a reflexive and ecological neighbourliness. These themes are translated into considerations for how those with agency and power might engage with a theory of “survey by play” toward pro-ecological approaches to outdoor landscapes. The thesis concludes with proposed starting points for the practical implementation of “survey by play” relevant to the practice of landscape policymakers, urban realm designers and geospatial engineers, along with limitations and suggestions for future research.publishedVersio
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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