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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
The 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
Estudio de Coherencia y Transporte Cuánticos en las Dinámicas Energéticas duranta la Captación de Energía Lumínica en Sistemas Fotosintéticos
The photosynthesis is one of the most studied biological processes through history. Its capacity to fix carbon into nutritional molecules is the base of all food chains. Its efficient exploitation of the solar energy inspires application such as solar cells, or synthesis of biologically important compounds.
During the first miliseconds of the photosynthesis, sunlight is harvested and transfered to a reaction center, were it powers the conversion of carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and other fuel molecules. The understanding of the dynamics in this process is essential for the design of similar systems.
In the last decades, ultrafast multidimensional electronic spectroscopy techniques have revealed the presence of quantum phenomena, such as quantum coherence and transport, during the energy transport in the photosynthesis, which are suggested to contribute to its unusually large efficiency.
Although the presence of quantum phenomena in photosynthetic complexes can be probed empirically, its application is limited by the technique difficulty, highly expensive equipment, complex data analysis and its low transferability to in vivo samples. As such, in silico techniques provide a platform to study these phenomena without this experimental limitations.
In this work, the study of the presence of quantum coherence and quantum transport in a protein-pigment complex is presented through fully computational methods. First, a methodology is developed and validated for the calculation of highly accurate spectroscopical parameters of the complex. From these, quantum master equations are used to obtain the dynamics of the excitation energy transport, and probe for the quantum effects and its prevalence, in order to elucidate mechanisms and factors that may extend their lifetime.La fotosíntesis es uno de los procesos biológicos más ampliamente estudiados en la historia. Su capacidad para fijar carbono en moléculas nutritivas es la base de toda cadena trófica, y su eficiente explotación de la energía solar inspira aplicaciones como las celdas solares o la síntesis de compuestos de importancia biológica.
Durante los primeros milisegundos de la fotosíntesis, la luz solar se absorbe y transfiere a un centro de reacción, donde provee de energía a la conversión de dióxido de carbono en carbohidratos y otras moléculas combustibles. La comprensión de las dinámicas energéticas en este procesos es esencial para el diseño de sistemas similares. En las últimas décadas, técnicas de espectroscopía electrónica ultrarápida y multidimensional han revelado la presencia de fenómenos cuánticos, como el transporte y la
coherencia cuántica, durante el transporte de energía en la fotosíntesis; estos se sugieren que
contribuyen a su eficiencia inusualmente alta.
A pesar de que la presencia de fenómenos en complejos fotosintéticos puede ser investigada empíricamente, su aplicación es limitada debido a la dificultad de la técnica, alto precio de los equipos, análisis de datos complejo y poca aplicabilidad en muestras in vivo. En consecuencia, las técnicas in silico proveen una plataforma para el estudio de estos fenómeno sin estas limitaciones experimentales.
En este trabajo, se presenta el estudio de la presencia de coherencia y transporte cuánticos
en un complejo proteína-pigmento a través de métodos completamente computacionales. Primeramente, se desarrolla y valida una metodología para el cálculo de parámetros espectroscópicos con alta exactitud.
A partir de estos, se utilizan ecuaciones cuánticas maestras para obtener las dinámicas de transporte energético, para analizar fenómenos cuánticos y su prevalencia en aras de dilucidar mecanismos y factores que puedan extender su vida media.UCR::Vicerrectoría de Investigación::Sistema de Estudios de Posgrado::Ciencias Básicas::Maestría Académica en Químic
Variations on the Author
“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
We 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
We 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
We 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.
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
In 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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