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    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

    Hybrid nanocomposite films from mono- and multi-functional POSS copolyacrylates in miniemulsion

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    The synthesis of aqueous dispersions of hybrid acrylic copolymer particles with either a monofunctional or a multifunctional polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane methacrylate comonomer has been performed by free radical heterophase polymerization. The miniemulsion process gives stable latexes, whereas the less controlled emulsion route results in colloidal instability of the products. The thermal and mechanical properties of the nanocomposite latex films have been preliminarily investigated

    Synthesis and Surface Properties of Microphase Separated or Nanostructured Coatings Based on Hybrid and Fluorinated Acrylic Copolymers

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    Coating materials characterised by intrinsic inhomogeneity or nanostructured morphology can display unique interfacial (e.g. surface and adhesion) and bulk (e.g. mechanical, thermal) properties, when heterophasic or self-segregating components are obtained by suitable design of the constitutive copolymers' structure. With the purpose of obtaining intrinsically photostable low-surface energy coating materials characterised by good penetration into porous substrates and variable response of the adhesive and polymer-air interface, fluorinated acrylic-based copolymers and water-borne acrylic-organosilane hybrids have been considered. For the latter, dispersed phase polymerisation procedures based on combined emulsion copolymerisation and hydrolysis-polycondensation of organosilane precursors have been adopted

    Variations on the Author

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    “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
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