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#aroomofonesown: how social media made space for young women’s poetry and why publishers ‘liked’ it.
No full textThe purpose of this dissertation is to understand how young women’s contemporary
poetry has been democratised by social media, and its commodification by traditional
publishers. Technology has disrupted gendered barriers to publication: young women
now write and share digital poetry that subverts established forms. The curation and
monetisation of such poetry in printed books thereby reconnects a publisher’s role in
the circuit of production and dissemination. There is a wealth of cultural discourse
surrounding the female poets who participate in this fast-changing phenomenon.
However, a lack of scholarly analysis into young women’s unprecedented engagement
with a conventionally niche genre identifies a timely need for this research. Using
literary theory and cultural discourse, this dissertation also aims to explore the
commercial challenges faced by traditional publishers. These issues will be analysed
and interpreted using statistical and social media data, first-person narratives,
observational research and a paratextual case study. Theoretical arguments and
empirical research support the conclusion that the publication of poetry on social
media is both a highly valued and highly valuable resource for young female audiences
and publishers alike. This research recommends that publishers remain responsive to
societal and cultural shifts, and further leverage the symbolic capital of the book. This
will provide opportunities to retain and develop the audience for young women’s
poetry by embedding the current trend as a prospective mainstream genre
The chemistry of iron in hydrothermal plumes
No full textThis thesis investigates the role of submarine hydrothermal vents in the global marine Febudget. While debate continues over the sources of dissolved Fe to the global deep-oceandissolved Fe budget, it had been presumed, until recently, that all the Fe emitted fromhydrothermal vents precipitates and sinks to the seafloor close to the vent source.However, in the open ocean, dissolved Fe exists at concentrations greater than thepredicted solubility because of the presence of organically complexed Fe. If similarcomplexes were formed in the hydrothermal systems then there would be the potential fordissolved Fe export via hydrothermal plumes to the deep-ocean.To investigate the fate of hydrothemally sourced Fe, samples were collected from hightemperaturehydrothermal vent-field plumes at 9°N on the East Pacific Rise and at 5°S onthe Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The samples from the East Pacific Rise were analysed for Fe anddissolved and particulate organic carbon. Although hydrothermal systems are presumed tobe inorganically dominated, elevated concentrations of dissolved organic carbon comparedto background seawater were detected in near-field buoyant plumes and the concentrationof organic carbon appeared to relate to the total Fe concentration, consistent with thepresence of some organic-Fe interaction.Non-buoyant plume samples from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge were analysed for totaldissolvable and dissolved Fe and Mn as well as speciation studies on a subset of thedissolved Fe samples using Competitive Ligand Exchange – Cathodic StrippingVoltammetry. The dissolved Fe concentrations in the dispersing plume were higher thanpredicted from dissolved Fe(II) oxidation rates alone. Further investigation into thespeciation of the dissolved Fe revealed the presence of stable Fe-ligand complexes, similarto those detected in the open ocean, but with higher concentrations. If these Fe-ligandcomplexes were representative of all hydrothermal systems, submarine venting couldpotentially provide between 11 to 22% of the global deep-ocean dissolved Fe budget.Buoyant plume samples from the same vent site were analysed for total dissolvable anddissolved Fe and Mn as well as particulate Fe, Mn, P, V, Cu, Zn and the rare earthelements. Fe isotopes were also analysed in the particulate fraction, as a potential tool fortracing the biogeochemical cycle of Fe in the ocean. The forms of particulate Fe wereelucidated using the particulate trace element data, enabling the isotope fractionationcaused by Fe sulfide precipitation to be determined. A diagnostic isotope signature for apotential stabilised dissolved Fe fraction was predicted to be isotopically heavier than theoriginal vent fluid, potentially enabling Fe inputs from hydrothermal vents to be tracedthroughout the ocean
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
Crowdsourcing remote co-design towards improving the validity and reliability of mHealth application development – a case study on sleep solved: a mHealth app designed virtually with teens
No full textIntroduction: co-design has become a fundamental pillar of formative digital health research. Typically, this approach involves in–person workshops that involve a rich but limited amount of data. Virtually crowdsourcing co-design, however, provides the promise of rapid and vastly increased data. This is a novel, exploratory approach in mHealth design that may appease common health research concerns surrounding reliability and validity, whilst providing swifter feedback to meet product development timelines.Objectives: the objective of this exploratory single case study was to explore the virtual, crowdsourced, co-design of Sleep Solved, an educational mHealth sleep app designed with teens. In doing so, we wished to learn which virtual methods were used to engage teens in the co-design and to explore how these virtual co-design methods can be adapted for large-scale ideation and testing.Methods: we conducted an enquiry-based iterative case study utilising the Bayazit 3-stage model. 85 teens participated over 11 months. Data was thematically analysed over several design iterations.Results: rapid virtual feedback allowed for quick pivots in a short time frame. Four stages of feedback from teens led to iterative changes to scientific information contextualisation and user experience, from lo-fidelity mock-ups through to a coded app beta.Conclusion: the co-design of Sleep Solved exemplified the potential of virtually crowdsourcing teens in mHealth. Key to this evolution will be the ability to leverage big data utilising AI and machine learning approaches to data collation and synthesization, such that meaningful and contextual findings can be applied in line with software development timelines
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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