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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
Biological qualification of cryopreserved ovarian tissue grafts. : contribution to the codification of re-use techniques in cases of neoplastic disease
No full textLa cryoconservation de cortex ovarien est la seule technique envisageable pour les patientes pré-pubères et les femmes dont la pathologie nécessite l’administration d’un traitement hautement gonadotoxique dont l’initiation ne peut être différée. L’autotransplantation est jusqu’à présent la seule méthode disponible de réutilisation du tissu ovarien cryoconservé, et a permis d’obtenir plus de 130 naissances dans le monde, dont trois au CHRU de Besançon. Toutefois, en cas de pathologie néoplasique à risque de localisation métastatique ovarienne, cette technique peut présenter un risque de réintroduction de cellules malignes susceptibles d’être présentes dans le greffon. Des méthodes alternatives à l’autogreffe de tissu ovarien cryopréservé fondées sur l’utilisation de follicules ovariens isolés sont actuellement en développement. L’objectif de cette thèse a été de développer un protocole permettant l’isolement et la qualification de follicules ovariens qui pourront être utilisés en thérapie cellulaire à usage humain. Dans un premier temps, une validation de la technique d’isolement de follicules ovariens a été réalisée à partir de la dissociation de fragments de cortex ovarien, issus de patientes ayant subit une résection percœlioscopique, à l’aide d’une collagénase NB6 produite selon les bonnes pratiques de fabrication. Les follicules ainsi obtenus ont été analysés en termes de viabilité (immédiate et après culture in vitro), rendement, morphologie et état prolifératif. Dans un deuxième temps, la sécurité carcinologique des suspensions folliculaires obtenues après isolement a été évaluée par cytométrie en flux multicouleurs à l’aide d’une modélisation ayant consisté en la contamination de suspensions folliculaires avec des cellules leucémiques issues de patients souffrant de leucémies aigües myéloïdes (LAM) ou lymphoblastiques (LAL) d’immunophénotype connu. La collagénase NB6 a permis l’isolement d’un grand nombre de follicules vivants, principalement au stade primordial, et dont la majorité était non activée, même après trois jours de culture in vitro dans un gel de fibrine. La technique d’isolement suivie de trois lavages a permis d’éliminer les cellules leucémiques préalablement ajoutées aux suspensions folliculaires dans 23 cas sur 24, sans endommager les follicules isolés. La cytométrie en flux multicouleurs est une technique d’analyse efficace pour évaluer la contamination, par des cellules leucémiques, de suspensions contenant des follicules ovariens isolés. Le protocole d’isolement de follicules ovariens humains, ayant été réalisé avec la collagénase NB6 de grade clinique, peut être envisagé pour une reconstruction ovarienne à visée thérapeutique humaine.The cryopreservation of ovarian cortex is the only technique available for prepubertal girls and women when their pathology requires the administration of a highly gonadotoxic treatment whose initiation cannot be delayed. Autotransplantation has so far been the only available method to re-use cryopreserved ovarian tissue, and has resulted in more than 130 births worldwide, including three at the Besançon Hospital. However, in cases of neoplastic disease with a risk of ovarian metastatic localization, this technique may present a risk of reintroducing malignant cells likely to be present in the graft. Alternative methods to cryopreserved ovarian tissue autograft based on the use of isolated ovarian follicles are currently under development. The aim of this thesis was to develop a protocol allowing the isolation and the qualification of ovarian follicles that can be used in cell therapy for human purposes. In a first step, a validation of the technique to isolate ovarian follicles was carried out from the dissociation of cortical ovarian fragments, taken from patients undergoing a laparoscopic ovarian drilling, using collagenase NB6 which is produced according to good manufacturing practices. Follicles thus obtained were analyzed in terms of viability (before and after in vitro culture), yield, morphology and proliferative state. In a second step, the carcinologic safety of follicular suspensions obtained after isolation was evaluated by multicolor flow cytometry using a model involving the contamination of follicular suspensions with leukemic cells from patients suffering from acute myeloid leukemia (AML) or acute lymphoblastic leukemia (LAL) with known immunophenotype. Collagenase NB6 has allowed the isolation of a large number of viable follicles, mostly at the primordial stage and the majority of which were unactivated even after three days of in vitro culture in a fibrin matrice. Our isolation technique followed by three washes has allowed the elimination of leukemic cells previously added to follicular suspensions, in 23 out of 24 cases, without damaging isolated follicles. Multicolor flow cytometry is an effective analytical technique for assessing leukemic cell contamination of suspensions containing isolated ovarian follicles. The protocol to isolate human ovarian follicles, performed with the clinical grade collagenase NB6, may be considered for an ovarian reconstruction to human therapeutic purposes
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
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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