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The effectiveness and the spatiality of volunteered geographic information in disaster response: A Case study of information platforms for Typhoon Morakot
No full text本研究以莫拉克網路災情平台為案例，從網路力量與民間動能的觀點，分析民間建置之災情資訊網路平台在救災應用上的實際效能，並檢視平台所提供之災情資訊在人力、物資配派上的貢獻；另一方面，探究災情資訊的空間性，釐清其空間上的聚集特性或無疆界的特徵。本研究主要採用半結構式訪談的研究方法，訪談消防署與中央災害防救科技中心等政府救災單位，慈濟、紅十字會與世界展望會等民間救災團體，及媒體記者等三個部門，從組織動員方式、情資取得之管道等面向來評估災情平台的效能；另以莫拉克災情地圖、莫拉克災情網路中心、莫拉克災情資料表等平台建置者為訪談對象，藉由災情資訊取得與篩選方式、資訊之空間定位等議題，釐清災情資訊的空間特性。根據訪談結果再輔以相關文獻進行分析與討論，進一步了解自發性地理資訊在災難中所扮演的角色，作為救災體制修正參考。研究發現，自發性地理資訊的空間特性受到資通訊與社會網絡的限制而非毫無疆界，而其在救災應變上的實質效能則可協助尋人與物資配派以補政府救災體系之不足。本文在學術研究上的創新在於，災害管理關於自發性地理資訊的研究尚屬缺乏，同時亦補充自發性地理資訊研究欠缺探討救災應變實質效能、空間特性、資訊流與資訊關係人之研究向度。This study uses the information platforms for Typhoon Morakot as a case study to assess the effectiveness and spatiality of volunteered geographical information in disaster response. The major research tasks are to evaluate their contributions to information dissemination and resource distribution and to explore the spatial characteristics of disaster information delivered on those platforms. Semi-structured qualitative interviews are adopted as the primary research method. Key informants in three sectors that have information in need for disaster responses are interviewees to justify the usefulness and effectiveness of volunteered geographic information. The first one is the government agency including the National Fire Agency and the National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction, the second is the NGO containing Tzu Chi, the Red Cross Society of the Republic of China, and World Vision, and the last group is the media such as reporters. Afterwards this research conducts in-depth interviews with the people who established the disaster information platform for the issues of information obtaining, sieving and positioning to demonstrate the spatial characters of disaster information. Not only the spatial distributes of information on the platforms are analyzed, but also the role that the civil geographical information played in disaster recovery is further discussed. This study finds that the spatiality of volunteer geographic information is not boundless because of the limitation of ICT and social networks; however, the information platform indeed could help to find missing people and distribute rescue goods more efficiently. Concluding, this study contributes to the knowledge gap with regard to the scientific discussion of the volunteer geographical information in disaster management; at the meanwhile the actual effectiveness and the spatial characteristics of the volunteer geographical information, as well as the relationship between the information flow and informants are examined
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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