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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
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
Author, publisher and bookseller : a tripartite synergy in Nigerian book industry
No full textThis work is about the roles of Author, Publisher and Bookseller in Book development in
Nigeria. The paper started by delving into the history of Book Publishing in Nigeria after
which it proceeded by defining who an author, a publisher, and a bookseller is and
expatiated on the indispensable roles of these key actors in Nigerian Book Industry and in
the emerging Information Society. Furthermore, the various constraints to book
development were identified while the paper advised on how the Book Industry can be
further promoted in Nigeria. However, the paper concluded and made recommendations
on how the Book sector can help in enhancing scholarship in the country
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #2]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
[Report to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author #1]
No full textReport to Chief J. E. Curry, by an unknown author. The report contains a list of officers who gave depositions to the United States Attorney
O bairro Sítio Cercado na ótica das crianças : seus usos e significados
No full textOrientador: Profa. Dra. Valéria Milena Rohrich Ferreira.Monografia (graduação) - Universidade Federal do Paraná, Setor de Educação, Curso de Graduação em PedagogiaInclui referências : p. 86-88Resumo : Objetivou-se investigar como as crianças do Sítio Cercado vivenciam e utilizam o bairro e quais os significados que atribuem a ele. Sobre o referencial teórico foram explorados temas como a concepção de infância nos distintos períodos históricos, a sociologia da infância e alguns dos seus principais autores e concepções de bairro e de cidade. A coleta de dados foi realizada em uma escola da rede municipal de Curitiba, no bairro Sítio Cercado. A escolha dessa escola foi realizada de maneira aleatória, obedecendo ao critério de estar localizada dentro de um bairro periférico da cidade. Por meio de um roteiro semiestruturado foram realizadas conversas com 7 crianças dos quartos e quintos anos da escola. Para a coleta dos dados qualitativos foi realizada também uma pesquisa sobre o bairro Sítio Cercado para compreender a realidade das crianças participantes da pesquisa. Pode-se notar que o bairro é o que apresenta o menor índice de áreas verdes públicas da cidade de Curitiba, porém apresenta um número elevado de praças quando comparado com os demais bairros e que as crianças fazem uso frequente desse espaço dentro do bairro. A pesquisa demonstrou ainda que as crianças atribuem significados diferentes dos de seus pais com relação à segurança e demonstram um posicionamento crítico sobre os problemas do bairro.Abstract : This research aimed at both investigating how children in Sítio Cercado live and use the neighborhood and what meanings they ascribe to it. About the theoretical framework, themes such as the childhood concept through history, sociology of childhood as well as some of its most important authors, and some concepts of neighborhood and city were explored. The data collection was made at a local school in Sítio Cercado, Curitiba. This school was chosen at random, with the criterion of being located in the outskirts of town. Conversations with 7 children from the fourth and fifth grades were made through a semi-structured script. In order to collect qualitative data, a research about the neighborhood was made aiming at comprehending children’s reality there. It is possible to observe that the neighborhood presents fewer public green areas than the others in Curitiba. On the other hand, Sítio Cercado presents more squares when compared to the other neighborhoods and children use these places often. The research also demonstrated that children ascribe meanings that are different from their parents concerning safety and that they state a critical position about the problems in the neighborhood
Mining e-mail content for author identification forensics
No full textWe describe an investigation into e-mail content mining for author identification, or authorship attribution, for the purpose of forensic investigation. We focus our discussion on the ability to discriminate between authors for the case of both aggregated e-mail topics as well as across different email topics. An extended set of e-mail document features including structural characteristics and linguistic patterns were derived and, together with a Support Vector Machine learning algorithm, were used for mining the e-mail content. Experiments using a number of e-mail documents generated by different authors on a set of topics gave promising results for both aggregated and multi-topic author categorisation
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