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Letter, Elliot C. Cowden to Salmon P. Chase, September 2, 1862
Get PDFThis handwritten letter, dated September 2, 1862, is written from Elliot C. Cowden to Salmon P. Chase discussing the incompetence of the newly elected U. S. Collector for the 4th District of New York, John Mack, and requests Chase to investigate a possible removal. The letter is written on Elliot C. Cowdin and Co. letterhead.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-manuscripts-original-manuscripts/1129/thumbnail.jp
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
The correct sequence of the porcine group C/Cowden rotavirus major inner capsid protein shows close homology with human isolates from Brazil and the U.K.
No full textAmino acid sequence alignments between the human group C/Bristol and the published porcine group C/Cowden VP6 proteins have revealed a region of extreme sequence divergence. We have been unable to confirm the nucleotide sequence of the Cowden VP6 gene corresponding to this region of divergence. Direct sequencing of a PCR-amplified cDNA pool has revealed a frame shift, and three nucleotide changes, within the published sequence of the porcine (Cowden) VP6 gene. The corrected sequence of the porcine protein revealed a closer homology with VP6 from the Bristol strain and two new human group C rotavirus isolates. Atypical rotaviruses have been detected in the feces of children living in Belém, Brazil, and Preston, U.K. Direct sequencing of PCR-amplified cDNA corresponding to the VP6 gene of one isolate from each location confirmed the presence of a group C rotavirus. The complete nucleotide sequences of the VP6 genes from the group C/Belém and C/Preston rotaviruses contained an open reading frame of 1185 nucleotides (395 amino acids; deduced M(r) 44,669 Da). The Belém VP6 gene demonstrated 97.9% nucleotide homology with the human group C/Bristol VP6 gene and 83.4% nucleotide homology (91.6% deduced amino acid homology) with the corrected porcine group C/Cowden sequence. The Preston VP6 gene demonstrated 99.6% nucleotide homology with the human group C/Bristol VP6 gene and 84.0% nucleotide homology (91.6% deduced amino acid homology) with the corrected porcine group C/Cowden sequence. Remarkably, the deduced amino acid sequence of the Brazilian strain was identical to that of the U.K. isolates
Letter, Salmon P. Chase to Elliot C. Cowden, September 2, 1862
Get PDFThis handwritten letter, dated September 8, 1862, is from Salmon P. Chase to Elliot C. Cowden as a response to Cowden\u27s letter to Chase on September 2. Chase informs Cowden that Mr. John Mack\u27s appointment was made by the President on the recommendation of some of the best the citizens of New York and is not under the purview of the Secretary of the Treasury. Chase goes on to encourage that perhaps experience will prove the selection not so injudicious as you think it now. A Treasury Department envelope postmarked Washington, D. C. Sep. 9, 1862 and addressed to Elliot C. Cowdin, Esq. in New York is included with the letter.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-manuscripts-original-manuscripts/1130/thumbnail.jp
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
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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