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The Michigan rag : The latest two step.
No full textGift of Dr. Mary Jane Esplen.Piano. [instrumentation]F major. [key]Intro. [tempo]Ragtime. [form/genre]Respectfully dedicated to "The Wolverine Quartette" [dedication]Adrian Carter, Battle Creek. [dealer stamp
Supplemental Material - Artificial Intelligence in Long-Term Care: Technological Promise, Aging Anxieties, and Sociotechnical Ageism
No full textSupplemental Material for Artificial Intelligence in Long-Term Care: Technological Promise, Aging Anxieties, and Sociotechnical Ageism by Barbara Barbosa Neves, Alan Petersen, Mor Vered, Adrian Carter, and Maho Omori in Journal of Applied Gerontology</p
Integrating Quality, Environment, Health and Safety Systems with Customers and Contractors
No full textThe value of integrated management systems has been underlined in recent years by the development of a set of aligned ISO management standards for quality, environment and health and safety. The history of implementing an integrated management system aligned to these standards within Amec Process & Energy, * an offshore services contractor, is discussed in this paper with particular reference to environmental management. The implementation process was found to have been strongly influenced by a number a factors including: the background experience of the implementation team; communication between team members; input to the implementation process from quality and health and safety management; the contract nature of company business; the integrated nature of interfaces with clients; and the high level of influence exerted over relatively large numbers of subcontractors. A number of conclusions were drawn from this review, mostly emphasising the need for clarity over plans of action and areas of ambiguity and strong lines of communication between key individuals. Adrian Carter is Environmental Adviser at Amec Process & Energy, UK, and has ten years ’ experience of environmental work, covering environmental management systems, environmental impact assessment, environmental education, and coastal/marine ecology. Current areas of interest include oil platform decommissioning and the environmental impact of offshore wind farms
Investment and vested interests in neuroscience research of addiction: why research ethics requires more than informed consent
No full textThis chapter discusses some powerful vested interests in the neuroscience research of addiction, describing why and how they manipulate neuroscience research. The main justification for government investment in neuroscience research on addiction is to reduce the significant economic and personal costs of drug use and gambling. Given the enormous governmental resources poured into neuroscience research, it is reasonable to ask whether there has been an appropriate return on the investment, particularly as other areas of addiction research and treatment have been under-resourced despite evidence of the benefits of such investment. Neuroscience research on addiction has yielded valuable information about the molecular and neuronal changes that occur in the brain in response to the chronic use of addictive drugs and information about how these changes relate to addictive behaviors. The history of medicine is strewn with ideas once thought promising that did not deliver when scrutinized through the lens of evidence-based medicine. Hormone replacement therapy, prostate-specific antigen screening, perimyocardial infarction lidocaine and many other seemingly good ideas, when prematurely implemented, created bubbles of expectation and investment, leaving sponsors disappointed and patients ill-served when reality did not live up to theoretical promise
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
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