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Lessons Learned Establishing a Dialogue Between the Energy Industry and the Meteorological Community and a Way Forward
No full textForging a Dialogue Between the Energy Industry and the Meteorological Community
Full text linkThe interplay between energy and meteorology (based on its broad meaning of weather, water and climate) has been steadily growing. For this relationship to continue flourishing, a formal structure for stakeholders to interact effectively is required. The process of formation of the World Energy & Meteorology Council (WEMC), an organisation aimed at promoting and strengthening such a relationship, is discussed in this chapter. Such a process involves building many diverse relationships, something which has been happening over several years, alongside the adoption of more formal practices such as stakeholder surveys. While the focus of this chapter is clearly on WEMC, this process could be used as a stimulus for analogous activities in the broader energy and meteorology area, specifically those at the national and regional levels, as well as similar activities straddling diverse disciplines, such as those promoted by the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS)
TEAL WCA: climate data platform for planning solar photovoltaic and wind energy resources in West and Central Africa
No full text<p>This data platform entitled '<strong>TEAL WCA: climate data platform for planning solar photovoltaic and wind energy resources in West and Central Africa' </strong>is a presentation of climate and energy resources data for two Sub-Saharan African regions. Climate change is now a fact and African countries are more vulnerable. To better prepare for mitigation and adaptation, projection information is needed. The challenge of climate model data output is that they are available at the global level and are associated with some biases. This makes studies at the country or sub-county level difficult especially impact study. This study aims to (i) downscale, (ii) bias-adjust, (iii) aggregate at country and sub-country levels, and (iv) estimate the wind power and solar power potential. Moreover, a database platform is built to make the prepared climate data and estimated energy potential dataset freely available for researchers, universities, and decision-makers in West and Central African countries. This manuscript presents the performance of the approach and the distribution of climate and energy variables. </p>
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
Mononchoides macrospiculumn. sp. (Nematoda: Neodiplogastridae) and Teratorhabditis synpapillata Sudhaus, 1985 (Nematoda: Rhabditidae): nematode associates of Rhynchophorus ferrugineus(Oliver) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in Italy
No full textSeveral juvenile and adult nematodes were isolated after dissection of pupae and adults of the red palm weevil,
Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, recovered from an infested Phoenix canariensis Chabaud exemplar in Bari, Italy. Two species of
nematodes were recovered, Teratorhabditis synpapillata and Mononchoides macrospiculum n. sp. which is described herein. The
mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I (COI), the ITS-containing region, the 18S rRNA gene (SSU) and the D2-D3 expansion
domains of the 28S rRNA gene (LSU) were amplified and sequenced. The new species, M. macrospiculum n. sp., is described at
morphological and molecular level. Phylogenetic analyses using SSU and LSU sequences placed M. macrospiculum n. sp. together
with M. composticola and M. striatus. The sequences of the Italian population of T. synpapillata are identical to those of T. synpapillata
from Japan. This is the first report on the association of M. macrospiculum n. sp. and T. synpapillata with the red palm weevil in
Europe
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
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