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Memoir by Anthony Mooyaart, Commandeur of Jaffnapatam, for the information and guidance of his successor, Noel Anthony Lebeck, 1766. Translated by Sophia Pieters, Dutch translator. With an introd. and notes by the Govt. Archivist.
No full textElectronic reproduction. Canberra, A.C.T. : National Library of Australia, 2012
Jeldert Jansz Groot: Beknopt en Getrouw Verhaal, van de Reys van Commandeur Jeldert Jansz Groot, uit Texel na en in Groenland [ca. 1779]
No full textBeknopt en Getrouw Verhaal, van de Reys van Commandeur Jeldert Jansz Groot, uit Texel na en in Groenland &c. Deszelfs Verblyf op de Kust van Oud-Groenland, naa het Verongelukken van deszelfs onderhebbend Schip, tusschen Ysland en Staatenhoek. Voorgevallen in Ao. 1777 en 1778. Gedrukt voor den Autheur, En te bekomen by de Wed. van A. van Ryschooten en Zoon, op de Haarlemmerdyk, by de Kleine Vismarkt, te Amsterdam; En by Pieter Quakkelstein, te Zaandam. [c. 1779
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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe 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
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
The construction of Karen Karnak: The multi-author-function
No full textThis thesis is situated within the comparatively recent developments of Web 2.0 and the emergence of interactive WikiMedia, and explores the mode of authorship within a Read/Write culture compared to that of a Read/Only tradition. The hypothesis of this study is that the role of the audience has become merged with the author, and as such, represents new functions and attributes, distinct from a more conventional concept of authorship, in which the roles of audience and author are more separate. Read/Write and participatory culture, as defined by this study, is focused on collaboration, and includes the influences of D.I.Y. culture, Open-Source practices and the production of text by multiple authors. Multi-authorship presents a re-thinking of several concepts which support the notion of the individual author, since the focus of multi-authorship is not on attribution and ownership of a finished text, but on the continued malleability of a text. Modes of multi-authorship, demonstrated in the use of the pseudonyms Alan Smithee and Karen Eliot, represent declarative authors whose names signify multiple origins, whilst concurrently indicating a distinct body of work. The function of these names form an important context to this study, since primary research involves the construction of an experimental mode of multi-authorship utilising WikiMedia technology and the interaction of thirty nine participants, who are invited to create a body of work under the collective pseudonym Karen Karnak. The data generated by this experiment is analysed using aspects of Michel Foucault's author-function to identify and determine power structures inherent in the WikiMedia context. The interplay of power structures, including concepts such as identity, ownership and the body of work, affect the resulting mode of authorship and contribute to the construction of Karen Karnak, suggesting further areas of research into the emerging multi-author
Contribution of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Country’S H-Index
No full textThe aim of this study is to examine the effect of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) development on country’s scientific ranking as measured by H-index. Moreover, this study applies ICT development sub-indices including ICT Use, ICT Access and ICT skill to find the distinct effect of these sub-indices on country’s H-index. To this purpose, required data for the panel of 14 Middle East countries over the period 1995 to 2009 is collected. Findings of the current study show that ICT development increases the H-index of the sample countries. The results also indicate that ICT Use and ICT Skill sub-indices positively contribute to higher H-index but the effect of ICT access on country’s H-index is not clear
Footprint decomposition combined with point cloud segmentation for producing valid 3D models
No full textFor the creation of three-dimensional (3D) city models, extrusion of building footprints is widely applied. Extrusion results in block shaped buildings. The main problem with these 3D models is that they do not represent height differences within a building. This thesis presents a method to improve building footprints by subdivision into parts describing height differences and roof shapes. These improved building footprints are used for creating 3D models by separate extrusion of each of these parts. Applying this method results in 3D building models with multiple heights. Several subjects are discussed in this thesis: generalization, decomposition, segmentation, 3D geometry reconstruction and their validation. This research is based on the combination of two existing methods, one for generalization and decomposition of building footprints, and one for segmentation of point clouds. These methods are extended and problems are solved by including: (1) direction of lines, (2) best fitting line, (3) adjacent buildings, (4) preservation of holes, (5) handling of slant lines, (6) quality statistics and (7) validation. The existing generalization method creates topology errors which are reduced by including knowledge from adjacent buildings. Decomposed building footprints are merged based on the segmented point cloud. The resulting decomposition is a subdivision describing multiple roof shapes and height jumps, based on linear features in the building footprint. Reconstruction of the actual 3D geometry is performed by extrusion of the decomposition cells. The resulting reconstruction is a Level of Detail 1 (LoD) model with height differences. To test the usability of the improved footprints for reconstruction of a LoD2 model, parametric shape fitting is applied. These tests are executed using a small set of roof shapes proving the usability. All reconstructed 3D building geometries are validated using Oracle Spatial 11g. In order to analyze, test and improve the developed algorithms, a prototype is implemented in C++. This prototype is tested intensively with several real-world data sets. Results from these tests are proving proper functioning of the developed method and support the conclusions.GeomaticsGIS TechnologyOTB Research Institute for the Built Environmen
Fille ou garçon ? : moyen de prédire le sexe de l'enfant avant sa naissance / par le commandeur Jean-Paul
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