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Auld Campaigner:a Life of Alexander Scott
No full text'I like this fellow Alexander Scott - whoever he is', wrote Sydney Goodsir Smith to Maurice Lindsay soon after the Second World war. Literary Scotland certainly came to know who Alexander Scott (1920-89) was. In his day, he was one of the most prominent of Scotland's poets, renowned for witty, passionate, vigorous poems in both Scots and English - poems embodying his high ideals of poetic craftsmanship and carrying forward MacDiarmid's literary Renaissance into the Sixties. They were also among the most entertaining of their time. Scott's achievement, however, stretched wider still: to Edwin Morgan, for example, his legacy is that of 'an excellent man of letters'. His poetry was the centrepiece of a lifetime's commitment to Scotland's literature and culture, a commitment which took many forms and was expressed in many ways. From his appointment in 1948 as Glasgow University's Lecturer in Scottish Literature, Scott took a lead in developing Scottish Literature as a modern subject, laying the foundations for its present prominence in the Scottish academic scene. In 1971, he became the first head of the world's only university department in the subject. In addition, he was a dramatist, actor, anthologist, scholar, critic, editor, broadcaster, columnist and controversialist. He was active, too, in many important and imaginative initiatives following the creation of the Scottish Arts Council in the 1960s. A unique personality, Alexander Scott embodied much that was vital in his country's post-war culture. In his story, the shape of modern Scotland emerges. This is the first major biography of a hugely influential figure in the Scottish literary scene in the 20th century. It will appeal to students of the Scottish renaissance and lovers of twentieth century Scots literature
Thomas Alexander Scott Illustration and Biography
Get PDFThe object includes a book illustration and accompanying text that have been removed from an unknown book (possibly a 19th century book). The illustration is an engraved portrait of Thomas Alexander Scott, appointed in 1861 by President Abraham Lincoln as the U.S. Assistant Secretary of War during the American Civil War, and the text is a short biography of his life and career. Both are printed on white paper and black ink.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-prints/1208/thumbnail.jp
LSTM RNN for classification of AHE
No full textThesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2017.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 37-39).An acute hypotensive episode (AHE) is a life-threatening condition durich which a patient's mean arterial blood pressure drops below 60 mmHG for a period of 30 minutes. This thesis presents the development and evaluation of a series of Long short-term memory recurrent neural network (LSTM RNN) models which predict whether a patient will experience an AHE or not based on a time series of mean arterial blood pressure (ABP). A 2-layer, 128-hidden unit LSTM RNN trained with rmsprop and dropout regularization achieves sensitivity of 78% and specificity of 98%.by Alexander Scott Jaffe.M. Eng
Report of the Committee to Whom was Referred the Petition of Alexander Scott of South Carolina, December 20, 1810 - Accession 1192 - M560 (613)
Get PDFThis collection consists of a booklet titled Report of the Committee to Whom was Referred the Petition of Alexander Scott of South Carolina, December 20, 1810 printed in Washington by A. And G. Way, Printers in 1810. The booklet consists of a report of a United States House of Representatives committee which was referred the petition of Alexander Scott of South Carolina concerning the theft of the property of William Scott, James Pettigrew, and John Pettigrew of S.C. by a party of Cherokee Indians. In June of 1794, the Cherokee attacked these men and killed them and their families. The Cherokee carried away twenty-one slaves and goods and chattel worth more than $1000. The Committee was asked to make a decision on the rights of Alexander Scott to ask for remuneration or return of the property under the Cherokee treaty of 1798.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/2786/thumbnail.jp
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
From spring to stream: water quality analysis in Trout Brook, Dakota County, MN
Get PDFThis research was supported by the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP).Pencak, Edward S; Alexander, Scott C; Alexander, E Calvin. (2018). From spring to stream: water quality analysis in Trout Brook, Dakota County, MN. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/196199
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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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