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Peer-to-Peer Decentralized Social Media Platform Using Second-Layer Blockchain Technology
No full textCurrent social media platforms built on specialized blockchains exist, but have failed to reach mainstream adoption. These decentralized alternatives have not been able to successfully migrate users from the existing offering of centralized platforms due in part to their decisions to create their own specialized currency and blockchain. This study proposes the idea of an algorithmically decentralized social media platform running via a second-layer extension of the blockchain as a solution that would alleviate the failures of previous blockchain iterations, and return social media to a peer-to-peer platform open to everyone as a way to dissipate knowledge, and provide services regardless of political constraints, borders, or personal beliefs. By analyzing this new technology, this thesis explores the opportunities and advantages that second-layer blockchain protocol solutions provide to address the vital concerns, and criticisms of the current internet while addressing which group of users are more likely to understand and favor them. Tweets were extracted and analyzed, finding that individuals are increasingly becoming interested in Bitcoin and second-layer technologies rather than dedicated and segregated projects that have been decreasing in online popularity. The study’s geographic, historical, and economic analysis suggests that in order for decentralized social media platforms to stay truly decentralized and to reach mainstream adoption, they will need to integrate with the Bitcoin blockchain to build on the already established momentum. The second-layer solution being proposed by this study solves technological complications and increases the likelihood of mainstream adoption
A Grimm Reminder: Representations of Female Evil in the Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
No full textAlthough Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm wrote their fairy tales in the early 19th century, their stories have maintained their popularity and have been continuously adapted and reimagined. The importance of this popularity should not be underestimated: the analysis of the tales and their characters is essential to understand the potential to perpetuate negative female fairy tale archetypes. This essay will examine the ways three popular Grimm fairy tales construct evil women through a close reading of their characteristics, their roles, and their motivations. As readers, it is important to be suspicious of the rewards given at the closure of these tales. The fates of these older women perhaps indicate what is to befall the young heroines in the future; once their beauty is diminished, will they too become evil, undesirable, and jealous crones? Indeed, although there is no instance of marriage portrayed as happy in any of the three stories, the plots culminate in the marriage of the heroines to the handsome princes. If the examples in the stories are to be trusted, why should the audience believe the notion of “happily ever after?” Is the “reward” of marriage truly a reward at all? Or could marriage be an introduction into a life consumed by jealousy, competitiveness, and bitterness, perhaps as a result of no longer being desirable to men?Creative and Critical Studies, Faculty of (Okanagan)UnreviewedUndergraduat
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
Dissemination as cultivation: scholarly communications in a digital age
Full text linkParticipatory web platforms have greatly enhanced the means by which students, scholars, and practitioners engage in arts and humanities research. Intuitive interfaces and content delivery systems have brought about paradigm shifts in the ways in which scholars connect and communicate, removing the need for advanced technical expertise when conducting a range of scholarly activities. Collaborative networks of both research and communications are now facilitated across ubiquitous systems that interact to form a transdisciplinary and dynamic interconnection of thought and practice. This chapter introduces readers to the underlying principles of scholarly communications and publishing in the digital age, uncovering the affordances and limitations of online public scholarship. The relationship between form and content is discussed, drawing upon relevant case studies to demonstrate how scholars should consider cultivating the habits and practices of thick collegiality. From here, an overview of relevant platforms is offered, before strategies for social media are detailed, all of which are supplemented by this chapter’s corresponding electronic materials
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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