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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
Remodeling of Cortico-Cortical Long-Range Connectivity in the Development of Uni- and Multi-Sensory Processing
Get PDFMammals are born with immature sensory systems which develop postnatally. Despite their continuing maturation, developing sensory systems provide crucial inputs for neonatal mammalian development, the maturation of neural circuits and adult behavior. Rodents are born with functional olfactory, somatosensory, as well as gustatory systems, which continue to develop postnatally. However, the auditory and visual systems are only functional at P11 and P14, respectively. Therefore, rodent early sensory experience largely depends on olfaction and somatosensation.
This dissertation is dedicated to understanding the developmental long-range corticocortical communication and its impact in brain dynamics and sensory maturation using the mouse as a model system. My first doctoral project focused on the development of the whisker somatosensory system of mice. Specifically, I studied the development of the functional connectivity and interaction between the primary and secondary whisker somatosensory cortex (wS1 and wS2, respectively). The second main project of my thesis focused on the developmental interaction of the whisker somatosensory with the olfactory system. During my doctoral studies I also contributed to other projects, with one being the output connectivity of subdomains within wS1, barrels versus septal to wS2 and primary motor cortex (M1), as well as the local interneuron distribution within these same domains.
The first project focuses on the developmental engagement of wS2 and communication from wS1 to wS2. Using in vivo wide-field calcium imaging and multi-electrode recording techniques, we discovered the wS2 developmental timeline of bottom-up input from the thalamus and cortico-cortical input from wS1. wS2 processes bottom-up information from the thalamus from birth, while it begins to receive wS1 input only at the end of the first postnatal week and switches to more inhibitory inputs after the second postnatal week. Here we uncovered a developmental window when information transfer between wS1 and wS2 reaches mature function.
The second project is about olfaction and somatosensation. We reveal that olfactoryevoked activity propagates to a large part of the cortex during the first postnatal week in mice and enhances whisker-evoked activity in wS1. This odor-enhancement effect is only observed in neonatal mice and disappears in adult mice due to the loss of neonatal excitatory connectivity from the olfactory cortex to wS1. By olfactory-depriving the neonatal mice and performing electrophysiological and behavioral experiments in adults, we find olfactory information provides important transient regulation of wS1 sensory driven neural dynamics and somatosensation. Our work discovered a critical window for somatosensory functional maturation regulated by olfaction.
The third project studied the anatomical output of wS1 barrel vs septa domains to downstream S2 and M1 as well as their interneuron distribution. By using the retrograde virus tracing technique, CLARITY and 3D light-sheet imaging, we quantified the cell numbers in the barrel and septal domains across all the layers. We found the differential distribution and projection between L4 barrel and septal neurons.
With three different projects using wS1 as a sensory modal to study the development of mammal sensory systems, we discovered critical windows before the second postnatal week which are related to other late-developed sensory systems (auditory and visual systems) coming online. The timing of all the sensory systems working together affects deeply the brain’s developmental states
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
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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