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Andrew Thomson, O.B.E. (1893-1974)
Full text linkThe many friends and colleagues of Dr. Thomson, former Director of the Canadian Meteorological Service and a Fellow of the Arctic Institute since 1954, will be saddened to hear of his death on 17 October 1974 in Toronto. He was 81. Andrew Thomson was born near Owen Sound, Ontario, on 18 May 1893. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1915 in Honours Physics, and later earned a Master\u27s degree from the same institution. In 1958, he was awarded an honorary doctorate in science by McGill University. Following a lengthy period abroad, during which time he worked with the Carnegie Institute in the United States, and in the South Pacific as director of the geophysical observatory at Apia in Western Samoa, Dr. Thomson returned to Canada in 1931. In January 1932, he was appointed head of the Physics Division of the Meteorological Service of Canada. Despite a reduced budget during the depression years, he was the prime organizer and promoter of Canadian participation in the second International Polar Year. He was also responsible for the organization of a post-graduate course in meteorology at the University of Toronto, which was given in cooperation with the Meteorological Service of Canada. Shortly after the outbreak of the war in 1939, the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan was conceived and Dr. Thomson became the main organizer and administrator of the extensive meteorological programme that was required. For his contributions to the war effort, Dr. Thomson was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1948. Following the war, Dr. Thomson undertook the reorganization of the Canadian Meteorological Service on to a peace-time basis. He was appointed Controller (later Director) of the Meteorological Service in 1946. In this capacity, he planned and supervised the installation of the Joint (U.S.-Canada) Arctic Weather Stations, and also promoted Canada\u27s active participation in international meteorological affairs. By the time he retired in 1959, Dr. Thomson had presided over a rapid and remarkable period of growth for meteorology in Canada, one during which there were marked advances in climatology, forecasting, research, instrument design, and training methods. Dr. Thomson was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Institute of Physics of Great Britain. He was also Vice-President of the American Meteorological Society and a member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, of the Royal Canadian Institute and of the Washington Academy of Science. A pleasant, kindly man, Andrew Thomson was known for his quick mind and keen intelligence. A unique figure in Canadian meteorology for more than forty years, he was in many ways responsible for the stature the Meteorological Service has attained, both in government circles and in the public view
Supplemental Material, sj-zip-1-jcr-10.1177_0022002719883684 - The Ties That Bind: Ethnicity, Pro-government Militia, and the Dynamics of Violence in Civil War
No full textSupplemental Material, sj-zip-1-jcr-10.1177_0022002719883684 for The Ties That Bind: Ethnicity, Pro-government Militia, and the Dynamics of Violence in Civil War by Luke Abbs, Govinda Clayton and Andrew Thomson in Journal of Conflict Resolution</p
Supplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-jcr-10.1177_0022002719883684 - The Ties That Bind: Ethnicity, Pro-government Militia, and the Dynamics of Violence in Civil War
No full textSupplemental Material, sj-pdf-1-jcr-10.1177_0022002719883684 for The Ties That Bind: Ethnicity, Pro-government Militia, and the Dynamics of Violence in Civil War by Luke Abbs, Govinda Clayton and Andrew Thomson in Journal of Conflict Resolution</p
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
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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