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Centrifuge modelling to assess consolidation following keying of directly embedded plate anchors
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"Dead Blossoms": Land, Language & Memory in Chaim Grade's Reconstruction of Jewish Vilna
No full textThis thesis explores two ways that Lithuanian-born Yiddish writer Chaim Grade (19101982) deconstructs Jewish history and tradition in order to restore a sense of permanence and center to a community that was destroyed during the Holocaust. The:first way he accomplishes this is through the rich texturing of land and the natural environment in his narratives. While the relationship between Jews and land throughout the centuries has been a fractured one, Grade's points to their coexistence, both on a historical and spiritual level. In essence, Grade shows that the natural world should not be subordinated to the world of rabbinic study. Additionally, the parallelism found in Grade's writing between nature and women, as well as his featuring of numerous female protagonists, demonstrates the need for women, as well as nature, to achieve equality within the patriarchal tradition of Jewish culture. The second way that Grade invests Jewish Vilna with a sense of permanence is by its reconstruction through the material power of memory and language. Moreover, his decision to write exclusively in Yiddish, in a style reminiscent. of social realism brings his readers closer to the culture he desires to keep alive. Additionally, Grade's choice, save for his memoirs, to write only about his native Vilna and environs as they were before the Shoah, sidesteps the recent tendency of Holocaust writing to dwell in genocide to the point of desensitization. Instead, his intimate portraits of the community in between the two world wars allow his readers to appreciate what Eastern European Jewish life was like before it was destroyed. Finally, the social equality evoked by Grade's writing about the natural world, along with the unavoidable fact that Grade's world no longer exists, allow for the re-imagining of a Jewish homeland that does not negatively affect the rights and land of others, thereby avoiding the perpetual cycle of political and cultural violence that has come to characterize the Zionist project
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
Parallel computation in low-level vision
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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
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