1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453497303321

Autore

Holland Peter <1939->

Titolo

Home in the howling wilderness : settlers and the environment in Southern New Zealand / / Peter Holland

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Auckland, New Zealand : , : Auckland University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-86940-781-4

1-77558-497-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 p.)

Disciplina

630.9937

Soggetti

Agriculture - New Zealand - South Island - History - 19th century

Colonists - New Zealand - South Island

Human ecology - New Zealand - South Island

Nature - Effect of human beings on - New Zealand - South Island

Electronic books.

South Island (N.Z.) Environmental conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (page 236-243) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION: The New Land: Imagined from Afar, Experienced at First Hand; ONE: Maori Environmental Knowledge: An Imperfectly Realised Resource; TWO: Settlers Learning about Wind, Warmth and Rain; THREE: Exceptional Challenges: Flood and Drought, Ice and Snow; FOUR: Away with the Old: What Place for Native Plants and Animals?; FIVE: In with the New: Introduced Plants and Grazing Animals; SIX: Emerging Environmental Problems: Erosion and Declining Soil Fertility, Pest Animals and Weedy Plants

SEVEN: Opportunities to See, Hear and Compare: Meetings, Sales, Competitions and ExhibitionsEIGHT: Rural People Continuing to Learn about their Environments; APPENDIX: Words about Home: Diaries and Letters, Commercial Transactions, Newspapers and Magazines; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

During the nineteenth century European settlers transformed the environment of New Zealand's South Island. They diverted streams and



drained marshes, burned native vegetation and planted hedges and grasses, stocked farms with sheep and cattle and poured on fertiliser. In Home in the Howling Wilderness Peter Holland undertakes a deep history of that settlement to answer key questions about New Zealand's ecological transformation. Did the settlers pursue farming regardless of the ecological consequences? Did they impose European plants, animals and farming methods on a very different enviro

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910298973603321

Titolo

Measuring Scholarly Impact : Methods and Practice / / edited by Ying Ding, Ronald Rousseau, Dietmar Wolfram

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

3-319-10377-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (351 p.)

Disciplina

004

006

006.312

025.04

519.5

Soggetti

Information storage and retrieval

Statistics

Data mining

Artificial intelligence

Mathematics

Visualization

Information Storage and Retrieval

Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

Artificial Intelligence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Community detection and visualization of networks with the map equation framework -- Link Prediction -- Network analysis and indicators -- PageRank-related methods for analyzing citation networks -- Systems Life Cycle and its relation with the Triple Helix -- Spatial scientometrics and scholarly impact: A review of recent studies, tools and methods -- Researchers’ publication patterns and their use for author disambiguation -- Knowledge integration and diffusion: Measures and mapping of diversity and coherence -- Limited dependent variables models and probabilistic prediction in informetrics -- Text mining with the Stanford CoreNLP -- Topic modeling: Measuring scholarly impact using a topical lens -- The substantive and practical significance of citation impact differences between institutions: Guidelines for the analysis of percentiles using effect sizes and confidence intervals -- Visualizing bibliometric networks -- Replicable science of science studies.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is an authoritative handbook of current topics, technologies and methodological approaches that may be used for the study of scholarly impact. The included methods cover a range of fields such as statistical sciences, scientific visualization, network analysis, text mining, and information retrieval. The techniques and tools enable researchers to investigate metric phenomena and to assess scholarly impact in new ways. Each chapter offers an introduction to the selected topic and outlines how the topic, technology or methodological approach may be applied to metrics-related research. Comprehensive and up-to-date, Measuring Scholarly Impact: Methods and Practice is designed for researchers and scholars interested in informetrics, scientometrics, and text mining. The hands-on perspective is also beneficial to advanced-level students in fields from computer science and statistics to information science.