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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
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
The expression of 16KDa γ-zein in Arabidopsis induces proliferation of ER membranes and the formation of unconventional structures
No full textProlamins represent the major seed storage proteins in cereals and are peculiar of these plants, unlike the 7/11S globulins and 2S albumins present in all plants (1). Many prolamins form large insoluble polymers, termed protein bodies (PB), within the ER lumen, where they accumulate (2). In particular, maize prolamins (zeins) are grouped into four classes (α, β, γ, δ) being γ and β evolutively the most ancient and synthesized before α and δ during seed development (3). Three genes encode γ-zein polypeptides, of 16, 27 and 50 kD. The 27 kD γ-zein forms ER-located PB also when expressed in vegetative tissues of transgenic plants, indicating that it contains all the required information to form a PB (4). Its C-terminal region has high homology to 2S albumins, with four conserved intra-chain disulfide bonds, while the N-terminal region contains an amphypathic repeated domain and seven Cys residues (4, 5, 6). The insolubility of 27 kD γ-zein is related to the number of Cys residues in the first domain, that form inter-chain disulfide bonds; substitution of all these Cys with Ser residues leads to full solubility and secretion (7). The role of other structural determinants, such as the repeated domain is however less clear. 16 kD γ-zein almost completely lacks the amphypathic repeats has only four Cys in the N-terminal domain. It may lack also one of the intra-chain disulfide bonds in the C-terminal domain.
Arabidopsis plants constitutively expressing the 27 or the 16 kD polypeptides were produced. Biochemical analysis of leaves showed that 16 kD γ-zein forms polymers that remain in the ER but, unlike the 27 kD polypeptide, is does not form the insoluble PBs with high efficiency.
Comparative ultrastructural observations by TEM showed substantial differences in the ability of the two prolamins to form PBs. As expected, the 27 KDa γ-zein was able to form canonical, round shaped, compact PBs in the ER. Similar structures were rarely seen in leaves expressing 16 kD γ-zein, which instead formed layers of different thickness leaning ER membranes, as also confirmed by immunolabeling experiments. Intriguingly, these membranes abnormally proliferated to form large membranous bodies of different size up to 10-20 μm long in mesophyll cells. Occasionally, in the center of these membranous systems compact structures were present, however very irregular in shape. No other apparent ultrastructural changes were observed in the transformed plants in comparison with wt Arabidopsis.
The above results indicate that 16 KDa γ-zein is competent to polymerize, hence be retained in the ER. However, its polymerization mostly occurs in layers leaning ER membranes, which are somehow induced to proliferate to sustain this unusual process.
1. Shewry et al (1995) Plant Cell 7: 945-956; 2. Herman (2008) Curr Opin Plant Biol 11:672–679
3. Xu and Messing (2009) Theor Appl Genet 119:1397–1412; 4. Geli et al (1994) Plant Cell 6: 1911-1922; 5. Vitale et al (1982) Jof Exp Bot 33: 439-448; 6. Mainieri et al (2004) Plant Physiol 136:3447-3456: 7. Mainieri et al (2014) Front Plant Sci 5:33
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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