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In Sugar Beet Land: Rediscovering Rübenplätze between sugar production, settlement and landscape
Full text linkDie österreichische Zuckerproduktion ist in Bewegung. Wirtschaftliche, klimatische und rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen ändern sich rasant und haben zur Folge, dass sich der Anbau der Zuckerrübe für Landwirt:innen längst nicht mehr als besonders lukrativ erweist. Anbauflächen nehmen rapide ab, Rübenhalden auf den Lagerplätzen schrumpfen sichtlich und den Zuckerfabriken fällt Stück für Stück ihr wichtigster Rohstoff weg. (vgl. Statistik Austria 2020)Mit dem sogenannten Zuckerpakt konnte der seit 2015 anhaltende Trend für die Kampagne 2021/22 vorläufig gestoppt und die Leopoldsdorfer Zuckerfabrik vor der bevorstehenden Schließung bewahrt werden. (vgl. Marihart & Karpfinger 2020) Langfristig stellt sich dennoch die Frage, wie die Zukunft der österreichischen Zuckerproduktion aussehen wird. Für Planer:innen impliziert das, sich frühzeitig mit den räumlichen Aspekten dieser Veränderungsprozesse auseinanderzusetzen und sie mitzugestalten.Diese Abschlussarbeit widmet sich daher dem Rübenplatz. In Österreich stehen aktuell rund 60 solcher Plätze der Rübenlogistik als Sammel-, Lager- und Verladestation zur Verfügung. (vgl. Agrana 2018) In Hinblick auf die Entwicklungen in der Zuckerproduktion und im Sinne eines effizienten Umgangs mit der Ressource Boden ist es notwendig, den Nutzen des Rübenplatzes kontinuierlich zu beurteilen. Und genauso notwendig erscheint es mir, dort neue Perspektiven zu eröffnen, wo Rüben sich vom Platz zu lösen beginnen:Was soll mit dem Rübenplatz geschehen, wenn er nicht mehr für die Zuckerproduktion gebraucht wird? Zur Beantwortung dieser zentralen Fragestellung gilt es zunächst Umwelt, Räume und Prozesse der Zuckerproduktion in Österreich zu verstehen und daraus Thesen für den (derzeitigen und potentiellen) Nutzen des Rübenplatzes abzuleiten. Welche (räumlichen) Qualitäten machen den Standort für andere Nutzungen interessant? In Bezug auf eine Neuausrichtung der Rübenplätze ist es hilfreich, neue Lesarten für diese Orte zu entdecken. Daher werden 18 Rübenplätze im westlichen Weinviertel unter Berücksichtigung planerischer Kriterien bewertet und in eine „Rübenplatz-Typologie“ übersetzt.Und wie können Rübenplatz-Transformationen konkret aussehen? Abschließend wird der Fokus auf jene Fälle in der Untersuchungsregion gerichtet, die als besonders oder gegensätzlich erscheinen. Für diese Auswahl werden Szenarien konstruiert, die konkret und motivierend aufzeigen, was es für die Transformationen benötigt und wie ein „Rübenplatz der Zukunft“ aussehen kann.Austrian sugar production is in motion. Economic, climatic and legal conditions are changing rapidly and have meant that sugar beet cultivation has long since ceased to be particularly lucrative for farmers. Cultivation areas are decreasing rapidly, beet piles in storage areas are visibly shrinking and sugar factories are losing their most important raw material bit by bit. (cf. Statistik Austria 2020)With the so-called Zuckerpakt, the trend that has been continuing since 2015 was temporarily halted for the 2021/22 campaign and the sugar factory in Leopoldsdorf was saved from imminent closure. (cf. Karpfinger & Marihart 2020) In the long term, however, the question arises as to what the future of Austrian sugar production will look like. For planners, this implies designing the spatial aspects of these processes of change at an early stage.This thesis is therefore dedicated to the so-called Rübenplatz. In Austria there are currently about 60 of these places available for beet logistics as collection, storage and loading stations. (cf. Agrana 2018) In view of the developments in sugar production and in the sense of an efficient use of soil, it is necessary to continuously assess the benefits of the Rübenplatz. And it seems to me just as necessary to open up new perspectives where the sugar beet begins to break away from its storage place:What should happen to the Rübenplatz when it is no longer needed for sugar production? To answer this central question, it is first necessary to understand the environment, spaces and processes of sugar production in Austria and to derive theses for the (current and potential) use of these storage sites. What (spatial) qualities make the location interesting for other uses? With regard to a reorientation of the Rübenplatz, it is helpful to discover new readings for these places. Therefore, 18 cases located in the western part of the Weinviertel are evaluated and translated into a “typology of the Rübenplatz” taking planning criteria into account.And what can Rübenplatz transformations look like in concrete terms? Finally, the focus is directed to those cases in the study region that appear to be special or contrasting. For this selection, constructed scenarios are showing in a concrete and motivating way what it takes for a transformation and what a "Rübenplatz of the future" may look like
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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