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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
Gramática na antiguidade tardia : Prisciano e sua Institutio de nomine et pronomine et verbo
Get PDFOrientador : Prof. Dr. José Borges NetoCo-rientador : Prof. Dr. Rodrigo Tadeu GonçalvesDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do Paraná, Setor de Ciências Humanas, Letras e Artes, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras. Defesa: Curitiba, 06/03/2012Bibliografia: f. 101-104Área de concentração: Estudos linguísticosResumo: Este trabalho trata da relação entre a gramática antiga e o ensino de língua estrangeira na antiguidade. O objeto de estudo é uma gramática de latim de Prisciano (séc. VI): a Institutio de nomine et pronomine et uerbo. Essa gramática contém apenas uma descrição detalhada da morfologia flexional da língua latina e por isso é caracterizada como uma gramática de estilo regulae, de modo que seria usada junto com gramáticas mais extensas, complementando o aprendizado. Prisciano a compôs em Constantinopla e certamente seu público alvo era de falantes de grego, o que pode ser percebido através da expressiva presença de nomes gregos entre os exemplos, de traduções para o grego de termos latinos e através do uso da língua grega como recurso para a explicação da gramática latina. Este trabalho investiga ainda as motivações do ensino de latim como língua estrangeira no leste do Império, estabelecendo uma relação entre o prestígio da língua latina, usada como variante super-alta, e a aristocracia burocrática, que alcançava cargos administrativos e buscava legitimação através do domínio da língua.Abstract: This thesis deals with the relation between ancient grammar and foreign language teaching in Antiquity. The object of this study is a Latin grammar written by Priscian (6th century): Institutio de nomine et pronomine et uerbo. This grammar contains nothing but a detailed description of the inflectional morphology of Latin and, for that reason, it is classified as a grammar of regulae type, so that it should be used conjointly with more extensive grammars, as a learning supplement. Priscian has written it at Constantinople and his target certainly was Greek speakers, which can be observed in the expressive presence of Greek names among the examples, in the presence of Greek translations of some Latin terms and in the use of the Greek language as a tool for the explanation of Latin grammar. This work also investigates the motivation of teaching Latin as a foreign language in the Eastern Roman Empire, establishing a connection between the prestige of Latin, which was used as a super-high variant, and the aristocracy of service, who reached the administrative posts and sought legitimacy through language proficiency
A pluralidade linguística na Antiguidade Tardia e seus efeitos na Gramática Antiga
Get PDFThis paper deals with the influence of plurilingual contexts on Ancient Grammar. It analyses a particular context, bringing into focus the coexistence of Latin and Greek in Late Antiquity, in the Eastern Roman Empire. The relationship between Latin and Greek is discussed, specifically considering them competing varieties of high prestige, and it concludes Latin was available as a super-high variety, to be used in situations demanding a high level of formality. Finally, this status of prestige variety that was assigned to Latin motivated the teaching of Latin as a foreign language in Constantinople. In this subject, this paper shows that Priscian’s Institutio de nomine et pronomine et verbo was used to cope with the demand by foreign language learners, as a regulae grammar could do.Este artigo trata da influência dos contextos plurilíngues na Gramática Antiga. Analisa um contexto específico, focalizando a convivência entre latim e grego na Antiguidade Tardia, no Império Romano Oriente. É discutida aqui a relação entre o latim e o grego especificamente enquanto variantes de prestígio concorrentes, concluindo que o latim estava disponível como variedade super-alta, para ser utilizado em situações de alto grau de formalidade. Por fim, essa sua condição de variedade prestigiada motivou o ensino de latim como língua estrangeira em Constantinopla. Tratando-se de ensino de latim como língua estrangeira, o artigo demonstra que a gramática Institutio de nomine et pronomine et verbo, de Prisciano, era utilizada nesse contexto para atender a demanda de aprendizes de língua estrangeira, caracterizando-se como uma gramática regulae
Tese é complicado : a leitura de situação em sentenças copulares com concordância não marcada
Get PDFOrientadora: Profa. Dra. Maria José FoltranTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal do Paraná, Setor de Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras. Defesa : Curitiba, 24/11/2018Inclui referências: p.103-107Resumo: Este trabalho analisa a interpretação de sentenças copulares com concordância não marcada, buscando explicar por que essas sentenças são associadas a uma leitura de situação que se distingue da leitura das sentenças copulares com concordância regular. O objeto de análise inclui sentenças em que o adjetivo predicativo ocorre na forma não marcada para gênero e para número e o verbo se mantém na terceira pessoa do singular, como (1) "Criança é complicado", em oposição a sentenças em que a concordância se dá normalmente e ocorrem as marcas de número e gênero quando houver um sujeito com os traços pertinentes, a exemplo de (2) "Criança é complicada". Defendemos que nas sentenças do fenômeno descrito em (1) ocorrem apenas adjetivos avaliativos, devido à natureza subjetiva da construção. A partir de testes com sentenças julgadas por introspecção, mostramos que esses adjetivos são avaliativos porque não têm uma denotação fixa, desencadeiam desacordo sem erro e continuam vagos mesmo diante da saturação do grau do predicado. Mostramos a partir de adjetivos participiais que é importante para a construção que o predicado disponha de um argumento experienciador. Defendemos também que as sentenças do tipo (1) são sentenças genéricas e envolvem a instanciação de um nome de espécie em uma situação (s). No caso das sentenças com concordância não marcada, a leitura de situação se deve ao fato de que a predicação se aplica à situação s que instancia os indivíduos da espécie e não aos indivíduos instanciados. Na concordância regular, por sua vez, são os indivíduos instanciados que recebem a predicação. Como consequência dessa análise, observamos que essas sentenças recebem uma interpretação semântica que se assemelha a sentenças habituais. Assim como sentenças habituais triviais indicam uma generalização baseada na recorrência de predicados episódicos, apontamos que as sentenças com predicados de experiência como os que ocorrem na construção não marcada indicam uma generalização baseada em situações recorrentes da aplicação do adjetivo avaliativo. Concluímos, então, que as sentenças com concordância não marcada são genéricas, com propriedades habituais, e ocorrem com predicados avaliativos. Palavras-chave: Adjetivos avaliativos. Sentenças copulares. Concordância. Semântica. Genericidade. Predicados subjetivos.Abstract: This study discusses the interpretation usually associated to copular sentences with unmarked agreement, pursuing an explanation to why these sentences receive a situation reading different from the reading attributed to copular sentences with regular agreement. Our object in this study concerns sentences in which the adjective bears no mark for gender neither for number, represented by sentences like (1) "Criança é complicado", in opposition to sentences in which agreement occurs regularly, with marks for gender and number whenever there is a subject with the relevant features, as in (2) "Criança é complicada". The verb is presented always in the third person singular form. We argue that sentences like (1) are compatible with evaluative adjectives only, due to the subjective nature of this construction. Following a series of introspective tests, we show that these adjectives are evaluative for a fact, since they do not have a fixed denotation, they trigger faultless disagreement and they remain vague even when the degree of the predicate is saturated. We also analyze participle adjectives of the type -ado and -nte, and show that the predicate must have an experiencer argument in order for the unmarked forms to be licensed. We still argue that sentences like (1) are generic sentences and that they require the instantiation of a kind in a situation (s). For sentences with unmarked agreement, the situation reading must come from the fact that predication is applied to that situation s which instantiates the kind individuals and not to the instantiated individuals themselves. For sentences with regular agreement, on their side, predication applies to the instantiated individuals. As a consequence, we conclude that these sentences, both with unmarked and regular agreement, get a semantic interpretation which is similar to habitual sentences. Just like regular habitual sentences offer a generalization over the iteration of episodic predicates, sentences with experience predicates like these mean a generalization over the iteration of previous experiences in which the evaluation of the adjective was verified. We finally conclude that copular sentences with unmarked agreement are generic sentences with habitual properties, and that they are compatible with evaluative predicates only. Keywords: Evaluative adjectives. Copular sentences. Agreement. Semantics. Genericity. Subjective predicates
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
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