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Abode And Point To The Eye (Saygun Dura's exhibition at Millî Reasürans Art Gallery, Istanbul)
No full textWhile Dura puts emphasis on the concept of migration on the show “Abode And Point To The Eye”, his experiential engagement with his subject is also phenomenological. Migration is constituted of three phases, leaving the home, a liminal or transitional phase and finally, arrival. The wealth of Dura’s technical experience is evident in this body of complex, large-scale colour photographs taken underwater, at varying depts.
There are two distinct series of large-scale photographs in the show, looking at the frenzy of activities on the surface and the eery, otherworldly calmness at the bottom of the lake. One of the series represents the migration of the pearl mullet, known to be the only species to inhabit Lake Van in Eastern Turkey.
Whereas there is a plethora of subtexts in the depiction of this almost ritualistic act of survival, the images are primarily concerned with matters of urgency, presenting the universal codes of nature to reproduce, adapt and evolve.
The second body of works depicts microbialites, the pearl mullet’s natural habitat in the lake's shallow ends. Yet in this case, they are depicted as empty or abandoned by their tenants. Possessing the largest organosedimentary deposits (microbialites) reaching several meters in height, Lake Van is quite unique (Kempe et al., 1991). The scenes are eerie and ghostly. The images simultaneously capture the contrasting feelings of serenity, silence, and drama existing at the bottom of the lake
'Alterity' at the 29th International Adana Golden Ball Film Festival 2022
No full textAlterity
2011 / 18’ 54” / Black and White / Turkey and United Kingdom
Director: Ergin Çavuşoğlu
Screenplay: Ergin Çavuşoğlu (based on converging conceptual elements from Robert Bresson’s “Au Hasard Balthazar” (1966) and “Crystal & Flame” (2010) by Ergin Çavuşoğlu)
Director of Photography: Emre Erkmen
Music: Music Schubert - Piano Sonata No. 20 and Esben Tjalve
Performed by Esben Tjalve
Editing: Ergin Çavuşoğlu
Sound Edit: Jonathan Cronin
Cast: Dilay Tüzün, Hazel Ece Tüzün, Umut Yontar, Hasan Kaşıkçı, Ahmet Bedel, Yavuz Deveci, İsmet Çavuşoğlu, Zeki Alemdar, Söner Deniz, Şaban Kokaş
Producer: Ergin Çavuşoğlu and RAMPA, Istanbul
Line Producer: İsmet Çavuşoğlu
Distribution: Ergin Çavuşoğlu
Summary:
Alterity was produced in 2011 as a gesture of conceptual engagement and clarification bridging two converging cinematographic ideas. On the one hand, the film reinforces the influence of “brute reality and the asininities of destiny” (Steven Bode and Sara Raza; 2011; Ergin Cavusoglu – Alterity), alluding to Robert Bresson’s film ‘Au Hazard, Balthazar’. On the other hand, it invokes directly in its iconography and symbolism a key element in Çavuşoğlu’s video work from 2010 entitled Crystal & Flame (2010). One screen of this multichannel video installation shows a narrator telling a story about an alternate economy and illicit trade of smuggling that employs children to transport black market goods on donkeys’ backs between the landmine-strewn Turkish and Syrian border, resulting in inevitable death. In Bresson’s film, a humble donkey enacts its own “lumpen via dolorosa, as it is passed on from owner and subjected to increasing indignities” (Bode and Raza; 2011). Alterity thus fuses the two tales intentionally bypassing the ill fate of the children in both stories to depict the donkey as the martyred central protagonist in a suspense-ridden tale of morality and treason set against the rural and rugged scenes of nature. The film was produced in Bressonian ascetic style working with non-professional actors on location in Malkara. The landscape is reminiscent of the one in Bresson’s film - the Pre-Pyrenees in France
MeSH term explosion and author rank improve expert recommendations
No full textInformation overload is an often-cited phenomenon that reduces the productivity, efficiency and efficacy of scientists. One challenge for scientists is to find appropriate collaborators in their research. The literature describes various solutions to the problem of expertise location, but most current approaches do not appear to be very suitable for expert recommendations in biomedical research. In this study, we present the development and initial evaluation of a vector space model-based algorithm to calculate researcher similarity using four inputs: 1) MeSH terms of publications; 2) MeSH terms and author rank; 3) exploded MeSH terms; and 4) exploded MeSH terms and author rank. We developed and evaluated the algorithm using a data set of 17,525 authors and their 22,542 papers. On average, our algorithms correctly predicted 2.5 of the top 5/10 coauthors of individual scientists. Exploded MeSH and author rank outperformed all other algorithms in accuracy, followed closely by MeSH and author rank. Our results show that the accuracy of MeSH term-based matching can be enhanced with other metadata such as author rank
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
Scholarly Communication and Publishing Lunch and Learn Talk #11: The ULS Open Access Author Fee Fund
No full textAt the May 2014 talk, you will learn about the ULS Open Access Author Fee Fund--what it is, why we do it, how it works, and how the program is going so far
The R&D Tax Incentives
No full textThis article sets out some background information and reflections of the author on the R&D tax incentive schemes included in the Common Corporate Tax Base (CCTB) Proposal. In particular the author analyzes the stimulus to private R&D through ad hoc tax incentives included in the CCTB Proposal and dives into the actual provisions included in the Proposal highlighting the most relevant issues connected with their design and interpretation. Moreover, the author explores the interaction between the CCTB Proposal and the granting by Member States of domestic R&D tax incentives
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