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Andrew Baker and Brian Lawry, 1994
No full textLeft: Andrew Baker, joint winner of the F. W. Green prize for best Engineering student in the final year of the Engineering Degree and joint winner of the H. E. R. Steele prize for the student with the best academic performance in the course leading to a degree of Electrical Engineering. Right: Brian Lawry, winner of the W. P. Brown prize awarded by the Institution of Engineers Australia to the best all-round student in the final year of Bachelor of Engineering and ESSO Prize for the student with the best academic performance in the Bachelor of Engineering with major studies in Mechanical Engineering. Swinburne Staff News 29 September 1994
Ian Friend: cryptic architecture
Get PDFReproduced with the permission of Andrew Baker and Ian FriendIt is often assumed that structure is the antithesis of chaos, that architecture must define itself against nature’s randomness. But things are not that simple. The Italian Rationalist architects of the 1930s, for example, argued that a mathematical equation known as the Golden Section was visible in nature. The fact that the structure of nautilus shells adhered to this formula was read as evidence that order pervaded the natural world. Similarly, chaos theory has told us that what seems like disorganized activity in nature conforms to patterns that have shape and form
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
Horror Has A Face
No full textThe title of this photographic series refers to the film Apocalypse Now, which was loosely based on Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness. Over time, like a bowerbird, I've collected bits and pieces of historical information, quotes and archival images. Set in the late-1800s, the resulting artworks are vignettes of narratives I found. Through the use of detailed costuming and precise set designs, my photographs offer re-enactments of selected incidents.
This series is focused on two central characters: Archibald Meston and Ernest Gribble — and the succeeding narratives ripple out from them. These two protagonists strode onto the historical stage and became central to Queensland's The Aboriginals Protection and Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act, 1897. Archibald Meston became the Southern Protector of Aborigines and Reverend Ernest Gribble was instrumental in running Anglican missions across the state. Meston and Gribble had active roles in shaping the destinies of many Aboriginal lives through their ideologies, experiments and methods of isolation. Rendered herein, featuring a largely Aboriginal cast, are some of my thoughts on Colonial vice and profiteering.
The various scenes address themes of daily life, control, addiction, assimilation, fear, survival and strength of character. Until 1897, opium use in Queensland was both widespread and legal. Major and minor narrative threads are plotted throughout, repeatedly using props such as a wooden box and a kangaroo skin. In one photograph, Meston settles in a bush camp where his gun is “shown” in order to exercise control. This scene is permeated by wafts of arrogance — as pervasive as smoke from the campfire. My research has revealed that Meston was a man of contradictions. Significant Colonial attitudinal changes occurred within his lifetime and he progressed from potshot killer to Protector of Aborigines.No Full Tex
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
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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