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Donald H. Timmer Oral History Interview
No full textDonald H. Timmer was a company interpreter in the 89th Infantry Division, which liberated Ohrdruf on April 4, 1945; it was the first concentration camp discovered by the Americans. After several days of fighting Gotha, Timmer\u27s unit received orders to go to Ohrdruf: on its west side, they came to a fence, which they followed to the camp. Timmer had to see if any of the prisoners were alive. He was still present when Eisenhower came, and acted as the general\u27s interpreter for a short time. Timmer also saw and translated the suicide note left by the town\u27s mayor and his wife. Timmer regularly speaks at local synagogues and has encouraged other liberators to speak about the Holocaust
Fundamentals of Citrus Canker Management
No full textPP-231, a 5-page fact sheet by L. W. Timmer, J. H. Graham and H. L. Chamberlain, provides fundamentals of citrus canker management now that the program to eradicate affected trees has ended. It includes information about protecting canker-free areas through decontamination and inoculum suppression, and for areas where canker is endemic it describes the use of windbreaks, copper sprays, leafminer control, and canker-resistant varieties. Published by the UF Department of Plant Pathology, July 2006
Fundamentals of Citrus Canker Management
No full textPP-231, a 5-page fact sheet by L. W. Timmer, J. H. Graham and H. L. Chamberlain, provides fundamentals of citrus canker management now that the program to eradicate affected trees has ended. It includes information about protecting canker-free areas through decontamination and inoculum suppression, and for areas where canker is endemic it describes the use of windbreaks, copper sprays, leafminer control, and canker-resistant varieties. Published by the UF Department of Plant Pathology, July 2006
Fundamentals of Citrus Canker Management
No full textPP-231, a 5-page fact sheet by L. W. Timmer, J. H. Graham and H. L. Chamberlain, provides fundamentals of citrus canker management now that the program to eradicate affected trees has ended. It includes information about protecting canker-free areas through decontamination and inoculum suppression, and for areas where canker is endemic it describes the use of windbreaks, copper sprays, leafminer control, and canker-resistant varieties. Published by the UF Department of Plant Pathology, July 2006
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
'Landschapsmaïs meer als graan zaaien' (interview met Ruud Timmer)
No full textPPO is verrast door de uitkomsten van het onderzoek naar landschapsmaïs. Door de 1.75 meter lange maïs meer als graan te zaaien en na vier maanden te oogsten, zijn mooie opbrengsten haalbaar. Het lijkt vooral interessant in combinatie met een groenbemester/vanggewas winterroggen en -erwten, goed voor een extra oogst eind me
Effekterna av EU:s förordning om timmer på exporten av träprodukter från Bosnien och Herzegovina
No full textIllegal logging and its related trade is of great concern around the world. The European Union Timber Regulation (EUTR) is a regulatory approach by the EU to prevent illegal timber and timber products to be placed on the European Union inner market. This means the regulation affects both actors in the member countries as well as the actors exporting timber and timber products to the EU from non EU member countries. This study aims to study the implementation process of the EUTR in Bosnia and Herzegovina (B-H), and its preconditions. Institutional theory is used to understand and explain how the EUTR affects B-H organisations’ business environment, and how the organisations choose to respond to the EUTR. Methodologically, the study is based on qualitative interviews with representatives from the B-H exporting industry of processed wood products, authorities and research institutions.
The pressure from the EUTR is realised in B-H on different governmental levels, and there is no responsible authority chosen for the implementation. However, the knowledge of the EUTR is somewhat spread among the respondents, and is expected increasing with time. The respondents’ perception of the EUTR is overall positive, and the EUTR is believed to reduce illegal activities related to forest trade in the region in the future. The lack of human and monetary resources together with an unfair market competition from organisations using illegal wood reduce the legal organisations’ capacity to implement the EUTR. So far, respondents from the authorities and the research institution has responded to the EUTR for example by arranging seminars aiming to spread the knowledge of the EUTR, and more organisations are starting to respond the institutional pressure from the EUTR.
The implementation of the EUTR is hampered by a complicated administration and a lack of funding and knowledge. There is however a positive attitude towards the regulation among the respondents, as they are taking the issue seriously, and believe the EUTR will contribute to a reduction of illegal activities in the future.Illegal avverkning och handel är av stor vikt runt om i världen. European Union Timber Regulation (EUTR), EU:s förordning om timmer, är en förordning med syfte att förhindra illegalt timmer och produkter från illegalt timmer att placeras på den EUs inre marknad. Det innebär att förordningen påverkar både medlemsländerna i EU och icke EU-länder som exporterar timmer och produkter från timmer till ett EU-land. Den här studien syftar till att studera den pågående implementeringsprocessen av EUTR i Bosnien och Herzegovina (B-H) och förutsättningarna för detta. Institutionell teori används för att förstå och förklara hur EUTR påverkar organisationers företagsklimat och hur organisationerna väljer att reagera på EUTR. Studien baseras på kvalitativa intervjuer med representanter från den bosniska exportindustrin av träprodukter, myndigheter och forskningsinstitutioner.
Resultatet visar att EUTR realiseras i B-H på olika styrande nivåer och det finns just nu ingen myndighet som är ansvarig för implementeringen av EUTR. Kunskapen om EUTR är däremot relativt utspridd bland respondenterna i studien, och förväntas öka med tiden. Respondenternas uppfattning av EUTR är positiv och förordningen anses kunna bidra till en minskad illegal aktivitet relaterad till skogsindustrin i landet. Bristen på kompetent arbetskraft och finanser tillsammans med en osund marknadskonkurrens från företag som använder illegalt virke minskar de legala företagens förmåga att implementera EUTR. Hittills har respondenterna från myndigheter och forskningsinstitut svarat på pressen från EUTR genom att arrangera seminarier som ska sprida kunskaperna om förordningen och allt fler organisationer börjar svara på den institutionella pressen från EUTR.
Implementeringen av EUTR hämmas av en komplicerad administration och brister i finansiering och kunskap inom ämnet. Det finns ändå en positiv syn på EUTR bland respondenterna, då många tar frågan på stort allvar och tror att EUTR kommer bidra till att minska användningen av illegala metoder i framtiden
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe 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
No full textWe 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
The construction of Karen Karnak: The multi-author-function
No full textThis thesis is situated within the comparatively recent developments of Web 2.0 and the emergence of interactive WikiMedia, and explores the mode of authorship within a Read/Write culture compared to that of a Read/Only tradition. The hypothesis of this study is that the role of the audience has become merged with the author, and as such, represents new functions and attributes, distinct from a more conventional concept of authorship, in which the roles of audience and author are more separate. Read/Write and participatory culture, as defined by this study, is focused on collaboration, and includes the influences of D.I.Y. culture, Open-Source practices and the production of text by multiple authors. Multi-authorship presents a re-thinking of several concepts which support the notion of the individual author, since the focus of multi-authorship is not on attribution and ownership of a finished text, but on the continued malleability of a text. Modes of multi-authorship, demonstrated in the use of the pseudonyms Alan Smithee and Karen Eliot, represent declarative authors whose names signify multiple origins, whilst concurrently indicating a distinct body of work. The function of these names form an important context to this study, since primary research involves the construction of an experimental mode of multi-authorship utilising WikiMedia technology and the interaction of thirty nine participants, who are invited to create a body of work under the collective pseudonym Karen Karnak. The data generated by this experiment is analysed using aspects of Michel Foucault's author-function to identify and determine power structures inherent in the WikiMedia context. The interplay of power structures, including concepts such as identity, ownership and the body of work, affect the resulting mode of authorship and contribute to the construction of Karen Karnak, suggesting further areas of research into the emerging multi-author
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