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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
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
Σχεδιασμός μηχανισμών για προβλήματα ανάθεσης αγαθών: αλγόριθμοι και αρνητικά αποτελέσματα
No full textThe focus of this thesis is the study of resource allocation problems from both an algorithmic and a game theoretic point of view. In particular, we are interested in the following two areas within algorithmic game theory: 1) Fair division of indivisible items, where the goal is to produce allocations that satisfy a certain fairness criterion 2) Multi-item cost sharing problems, where the goal is to provide allocations and cost-sharing methods that achieve economic efficiency, under the constraint of covering the incurred cost. The first part of the thesis regards the domain of computational fair division where the objective is to allocate a set of indivisible resources to a set of agents, when there are no monetary transfers, and in a way that leaves everyone satisfied. We are interested in the connection between the exact and the approximate versions of several recently introduced relaxations of envy-freeness and proportionality. We establish several tight, or almost tight, results concerning the approximation quality that any of these notions guarantees for the others, providing an almost complete picture of this landscape. Moreover, we further explore these problems from a game theoretic perspective, where agents may have incentives to misreport their valuations. We initiate the study of mechanism design for this setting, by focusing on mechanisms that are truthful and provide approximation guarantees or the fairness notions, we are interested in. We explore the case of two agents and produce tight inapproximability results. By doing so, we obtain a clear separation between truthful and non truthful mechanisms in terms of the approximation guarantees that can be achieved. In the second part of the thesis, we study mechanism design for cost sharing settings, where a set of agents is interested in acquiring a set of items and there is also a central authority that decides how the items are shared. The provision of items usually creates a cost to the provider that needs to be covered. The goal is the design of mechanisms that are strategyproof, budget-balanced (i.e. the sum of the payments of the agents must cover exactly the cost of the provider) and achieve guarantees in terms of economic efficiency. We examine multi-item and general demand scenarios, motivated by participatory sensing applications, and we show that under these settings, the well known VCG mechanismcan be implemented in polynomial time. Furthermore we provide a modification of the Moulin-Shenker mechanism that works under the presence of multiple items, while we also propose a new mechanism that although non truthful, its Nash equilibria provide good guarantees regarding economic efficiency. Finally, we further explore cost-sharing methods under richer combinatorial domains, which is a far more challenging problem. We study the special case of symmetric submodular valuations, as well as the setting of general valuations, both under classes of subadditive cost functions. In both cases we provide mechanisms that are either optimal for the setting that we study, or match and even improve upon the guarantees and the properties of mechanisms that are considered the current state of the art.Το επίκεντρο αυτής της διατριβής είναι η μελέτη προβλημάτων ανάθεσης αγαθών τόσο από την αλγοριθμική όσο και από την παίγνιο-θεωρητική πλευρά. Συγκεκριμένα, μας ενδιαφέρουν οι εξής δύο τομείς: 1) Η δίκαιη ανάθεση αδιαίρετων αγαθών, όπου ο στόχος είναι η παραγωγή αναθέσεων που ικανοποιούν ένα συγκεκριμένο κριτήριο δικαιοσύνης 2) Τα προβλήματα διαμοιρασμού κόστους πολλών αντικειμένων, όπου ο στόχος είναι η παραγωγή αναθέσεων και μεθόδων διαμοιρασμού κόστους, που επιτυγχάνουν το κριτήριο της κοινωνικής ωφέλειας, υπό τον περιορισμό της κάλυψης του κόστους.Και για τα δυο αυτά είδη προβλημάτων, παρέχουμε αλγορίθμους που επιτυγχάνουν βέλτιστους ή σχεδόν βέλτιστους προσεγγιστικούς παράγοντες ως προς τα κριτήρια που ανά περίπτωση μας ενδιαφέρουν, δίνοντας έτσι μια ολοκληρωμένη εικόνα του τι είναι δυνατό σε αυτά τα δυο πεδία
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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