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Transformations and City Extensions: Some Observations of Copenhagen's City Form at a Time of Global Change
Get PDFAs someone who has known the city of Copenhagen for the last 30 years, the author of this paper observes an apparent discord between the various new projects and the existing spatial patterns of the inner city. In particular, the author discusses the controversy over Orestad, a new region being created to serve the global economy.Walks through Copenhagen, discovery of old city maps, and visits to picture galleries have unearthed traces of historic transformation that are still visible in the city. Through these first-hand observations and discoveries, the author lays out principles that might be brought to bear on how current city transformations and expansions could be directed.Analyzing the city from various perspectives, the author notes that major transformations and expansion of Copenhagen have generally followed significant changes in society. Worldwide, the current urge to serve global commerce has affected many cities. No city can afford to be left outside the global economy. However, the structures built under this trend have produced sameness and areas that separate people without giving them a sense of place.The author offers alternatives by which Copenhagen might remain receptive to global influences and still retain its handsome city design, its sense of history, and its hospitable nature to people of diverse cultural backgrounds
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
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City-Building Practices in Riyadh, A Case of Master Planning from the Gulf
Get PDFThis research primarily investigates Riyadh’s 1972 master plan, designed by the Greek urbanist Doxiadis. The larger goal is forming a solid analysis of master-planning approaches in the Gulf region. The 1972 plan has been previously discussed in numerous research endeavors, but often it is treated as an isolated project, in ways that reveal only dimensions of “What?” What were its specific features? What were its productive impacts on Riyadh? And what undesirable consequences did it unintentionally have? However, the work in hand takes a different lens. It moves beyond the “What” to understand the “Why” or the “How.” Why was the plan developed in the way that was finally approved? How did it reach that shape? And why did it impact the city in the way it evidentially did? Those questions sit at the heart of this dissertation.Specifically, it aims to inspect the 1972 master plan as a product of negotiations between many influential players and the culmination of dynamics that were in place long before the work on the plan had even started, and which were significant in shaping its outcome. Rapid developments, occurring internally in Saudi Arabia and externally on the global stage, were instrumental in determining the plan’s final form. This dissertation concretely connects those relationships to the plan for the first time. The work’s main contribution is thus to analyze the range of factors surrounding the decision to construct the plan and show how they influenced the creation process.
Throughout this research, many field visits and interviews were performed, archival material was recovered and examined, maps were evaluated, observations collected, and media analyzed. The research also depended on the collection of oral histories from a number of sources; some are original, others were never connected to this topic. What this research revealed is that contrary to the familiar narrative, the plan’s process was not linear or one-dimensional, nor did it unfold in a vacuum or emerge from a lab. Rather, it was arrived at following a complex, multilayered process, and unpacking those layers is essential to fully comprehending and judging it. Finally, the 1972 plan may be seen as representing a timely response to a city that urgently needed a vision for its future, one that absorbed the enormous challenges it faced and created a system for instilling order through a period of unprecedented urban population and territorial expansion
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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