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Alberto Garcia-Alvarez & Petar Vuletic (Exhibition review)
No full textReview of Alberto Garcia-Alvarez and Petar Vuletic, Tim Melville Gallery, 1 – 22 September 2012
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
Alberto Garcia oral history recording Part 1
No full textAn audio recording of an oral history of Alberto Garcia, father of Virginia Garcia, a young child who died in 1975 in Washington County. His daughter, Alma, is also present in the interview. Alberto Garcia was born in 1926 in McAllen, (Edinburg?), Texas. Garcia is about 81 years of age at the time of this interview. He began working in the fields at the age of 16 - from picking cotton in 'El West' of Texas, working in the orange groves near his home town, and migrating seasonally to Idaho to harvest potatoes. He talks about meeting his wife Maria, who he married in 1980. Maria had already passed away from leukemia at the time of this interview. They had eight children together; Linda, Jesus, Alma, Estela, Rubi, Martin, Virginia, and Mario (listed from eldest to youngest). Garcia continues to describes his experiences as a migrant worker, detailing the various types of produce that he harvested from place to place, talking about his experience communicating with different employers while having a language barrier, and traveling from place to place with a young family. Before moving to Oregon, the family lived in Santa Ana, California and Washington. At about minute 28:00, Garcia begins to recount the death of his 6 year old daughter, Virginia. After a small pause in minute 30:00, Garcia begins to talk about Virginia, where she was born, and what she lived through as a child. Alma and Alberto cheerfully remember Virginia as an energetic, mischievous child who loved to sing. Virginia was taken to the doctor due to a fever, and both Garcia and Alma reveal that the cause of death was poisoning due to taking an oral capsule of an adult-dose of penicillin, which was prescribed by the doctor (this disputes the popular story of Virginia dying of an infection due to a cut in her leg). At about minute 47:00, Garcia details the events leading to her death and the aftermath. Starting at minute 48:45, Garcia begins to talk about the decision to sue for the medical malpractice, a case that they won. At minute 54:45 begins to tell the story of how the Virginia Garcia Health Center came to be, a clinic that was already being developed before Virginia's death. This interview is in Spanish. Part 1 of 2. ////////////// Una audio grabación de la historia oral de Alberto García, padre de Virginia García, una niña que murió en 1975 en el condado de Washington. Su hija, Alma, también está presente en la entrevista. Alberto García nació en 1926 en McAllen, (Edinburg?), Texas. García tiene alrededor de 81 años de edad durante esta entrevista. Comenzó a trabajar en los campos a la edad de 16 años - desde la cosecha de algodón en 'El West' de Texas, trabajando en los naranjos cerca de su ciudad natal, y su migración temporal a Idaho para cosechar papas. Habla de conocer a su esposa María, con quien se casó en 1980. María ya había fallecido de leucemia en el momento de esta entrevista. Tuvieron ocho hijos juntos; Linda, Jesús, Alma, Estela, Rubí, Martin, Virginia, y Mario (de mayor a menor). García continúa describiendo sus experiencias como trabajador migrante, detallando los diversos tipos de productos que cosechó de un lugar a otro, hablando de su experiencia comunicándose con diferentes mayordomos con la barrera de idioma, y viajando de un lugar a otro con una familia joven. Antes de mudarse a Oregon, la familia vivío en Santa Ana, California y Washington. Alrededor del minuto 28:00, García comienza a contar sobre la muerte de su hija de seis años, Virginia. Después de una pequeña pausa en el minuto 30:00, García comienza a hablar de Virginia, donde nació, y lo que vivió como una niña. Alma y Alberto recuerdan alegremente a Virginia como una niña enérgica y traviesa que le encantaba cantar. Virginia fue llevada al médico debido a una fiebre, y García y Alma revelan que la causa de la muerte era una intoxicación por tomar una cápsula oral de una dosis de penicilina para adultos, la cual fue recetada por el médico (esto disuelve la historia popular de que Virginia murio de una infección debido a un corte en su pierna). Alrededor del minuto 47:00, García detalla los eventos que llevaron a su muerte y lo que ocurrio despues. A partir del minuto 48:45, García comienza a hablar sobre la decisión de demandar por la negligencia médica, un caso que ellos ganaron. Al partir del minuto 54:45, Garcia comienza a contar la historia de cómo llegó a ser el Centro de Salud Virginia García, una clínica que ya se estaba desarrollando antes de la muerte de Virginia. La entrevista es en español. Parte 1 de 2
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
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