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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
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
Theory and numerics of gradient-extended damage coupled with plasticity
No full textNumerical simulations for predicting damage and failure of materials and structures are of fundamental importance in many engineering disciplines, since they usually reduce the number of costly and time-consuming practical experiments and allow for deeper insights into processes that would otherwise not or only hardly be possible. The significance of such simulations depends to a large extent on the quality of the applied material models which are themselves constantly being further developed to take more and more phenomena and effects into account that occur in real materials. In this context, the coupled modeling of the complex material phenomena 'damage' and 'plasticity' can be mentioned as a challenging and practically relevant subject the scientific literature has been dealing with for quite some time already. There is still a pressing need for further research in this scientific field. The present cumulative dissertation aims at making a valuable contribution in this regard. It essentially represents a compilation of several published works of the author (and his coauthors) related to the topic. The overall goal is the development and investigation of novel gradient-extended damage-plasticity material models, both for the geometrically linear and nonlinear regime, which are based on a so-called 'two-surface' approach. The latter means that damage and plasticity are modeled as truly distinct (but coupled) dissipative mechanisms by taking separate damage loading and plastic yield criteria as well as loading / unloading conditions into consideration, respectively. Nonlinear Armstrong-Frederick kinematic hardening, nonlinear Voce isotropic hardening and nonlinear damage hardening are also accounted for by the models that can quite flexibly be adapted to various situations in which the considered real material shows either a (quasi-)brittle-type, ductile-type or possibly a mixed-type damaging behavior. The gradient-extension of damage (based on a micromorphic approach) is used to avoid pathological mesh sensitivity issues in finite element simulations that otherwise typically occur when using conventional models involving material softening behavior. After an introductory part with a literature overview and a more detailed clarification of the research-relevant questions, the thesis begins with two works that are concerned with a numerical comparison of two different and competing kind of formulations for large deformation plasticity: hypo- and hyperelastic-based plasticity formulations that rely upon an additive decomposition of the rate of deformation tensor or a multiplicative split of the deformation gradient. At this point, no damage is being considered, yet. The main purpose for the thesis is to clarify whether one of the two formulations should generally be preferred when it later comes to an extension of the geometrically linear gradient-enhanced damage-plasticity model to large deformations. Various simulations with single finite elements finally reveal that the results, which are obtained using the respective modeling approaches, can indeed significantly differ from each other under extreme conditions and that an incautious use of hypoelastic-based plasticity formulations can even lead to physically implausible model behavior. However, in more application-oriented structural simulations these problems are nearly insignificant and the results show a good agreement which suggests that, in principal, both formulations are well-suited for the development of new material models involving large plastic deformations. Afterwards, two works are presented that deal with the theory and numerics of two slightly different two-surface gradient-extended damage-plasticity models for the geometrically linear regime. Among other things, the following topics are discussed: the application of the micromorphic approach to achieve the gradient-extension of the models, the derivation of the strong and weak form of the underlying boundary value problem, the thermodynamically consistent derivation of the evolution equations, the models' implementation into finite element codes, the algorithmic handling of the discretized equations at the integration point level and the computation of the consistent tangent operators which are necessary to retain a quadratic rate of convergence of the Newton scheme at the global finite element level. The results of numerous structural simulations demonstrate the good practical performance and mesh regularizing properties of the models in finite element simulations involving material softening. In the last part of the thesis, the model formulation is extended for its application to geometrically nonlinear problems. For this, a hyperelastic-based plasticity framework is used which relies upon an additional multiplicative split of the plastic part of the deformation gradient in order to allow for the modeling of nonlinear Armstrong-Frederick kinematic hardening at large deformations and which utilizes exclusively symmetric internal variables. Besides the theory, also many numerically relevant topics are discussed, such as a suitable time integration scheme for the evolution equations that preserves both the plastic incompressibility and symmetry of the tensorial internal variables, or the implementation of the model formulation into finite element codes. Finally, the functionality of the geometrically nonlinear model is exemplified by a structural finite element simulation
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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