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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
Illuminating Emotional Durability
No full text‘Illuminating Emotional Durability’ explores the emotional connections between us, consumers, and our cherished products with the goal of designing emotionally durable products. When we are attached to a product, we tend to take better care of it and are less likely to replace it prematurely. It’s interesting to focus on sustainability from a human-centered perspective. Often, as designers, we tend to emphasize on technical aspects when designing sustainable products, such as reducing materials and lowering energy consumption. However, this technical approach only considers the product’s physical lifespan and overlooks the possibility that we might dispose of it before it’s worn out. Extending the lifespan of a product has a greater environmental impact than any other measure. Therefore, understanding what encourages attachment to certain products is crucial for making sustainable design choices.
This project provides inspiration for both myself and fellow designers, providing tangible examples of how sustainability can be achieved through emotional durable design. I designed one physical product for each relevant emotional durable driver. It’s important to note that I am unable to cover every driver, I focused only on the drivers relevant to industrial design. For instance, a handmade product created by a loved one holds a unique significance that mass-produced products can’t replicate. From these physical products I learned how to or how not to implement the drivers. This series of products allows fellow designers and me to get a more defined understanding of emotional durability. Lastly, I used the insights gathered from the product series, to design one final piece, an combination of both technical, and emotional durability. This final lamp represents me becoming a more holistic sustainable designer.
Emotional durability
Technical durability involves increasing a product’s physical lifespan and enhancing its sustainability through strategies like Design-for-X. These strategies focus on aspects such as material use, quality, repairability, and energy efficiency. This approach to sustainable design covers the technical side.
‘Lab coated engineers triumphantly exchange high fives as fully operational hairdryers emerge from a five-year landfill hiatus. Is this durable product design or simply the designing of highly durable waste? But durability is just as much about desire, love and attachment as it is about material and energy use.’ Jonathan Chapman
The issue with technical durability alone is that products get replaced even when they’re still working fine.
Emotional durability revolves around forging a stronger, lasting connection between individuals and their belongings. The goal is to shift away from a throw-away society by enhancing the duration of relationships between consumers and their products.
Framework
Currently there exists no established emotional durability framework. That is why I decided to make one for this project. The “Three levels of emotional attachment” from Donald Normans theory enables a starting point to build an emotional durable design framework upon. The experimental framework I made is illustrated below, the framework combines existing theories.
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Nine ambient lamps
A big part of this project is to change the intangibleness of emotional durability by creating physical artifacts for each strategy.
Through practice-based research, I learned by putting each strategy into action by making physical products. This immersive approach helped me train my brain to always think about emotional durability during my design process from now on.
In five weeks, I made one ambient lamp for each of the nine characteristics of the framework.
One final lamp
After doing user tests with the nine lamps the next step is desigining one final lamp. A lamp that integrates both technical and emotional durability. The emphasis for this lamp is on the qualities, listed below, which were identified as the most desired features based on the user feedback.
1. Lamp has to be mechanically interactive
Has to be really simple to do but has to make a big difference (light, color)
2. A simple design that fits everywhere
3. Changing appearance for continuous visual stimulation
Skogsmåne
Skogsmåne manifest playfulness through its effortless interact on and captivating simplicity. Its dynamic appearance, evolving with different perspectives and light intensities, offers a visually stimulating experience. The base of the lamp achieves a floating effect through clever use of negative space.
Technical Durability
While not perfect or flat packaging, every component is easily detachable, reducing transportation volume. The lamp comprises only four materials, (electronical components not included simplifying recycling. The steel shade and glass globe are endlessly recyclable due to the materials, and could aldo be made from recycled materials. All parts can easily be recycled just lift up the glas globe and unscrew all different parts will come loose.submittedVersio
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
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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