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    Marriage record of Smith, Duval M. and Poage, Ida May

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    Marriage license for Duval M. Smith and Ida May Poage. W.M. Poage was the officiant

    Visite au canal de suez et observations sur ses derniers travaux

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    Duval M. Visite au canal de suez et observations sur ses derniers travaux. In: Le Globe. Revue genevoise de géographie, tome 8, 1869. pp. 113-128

    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

    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

    Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis

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    We 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

    Experimental Comparison of Orthogonal Moments as Feature Extraction Methods for Character Recognition

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    The selection of a good feature extraction technique is very important in any classification problem. Moments, especially orthogonal moments, seem to be a powerful option in the case of digital image compression, description and recognition. Nowadays, there is a considerable amount of orthogonal moments reported in the literature, each one with some advantages and drawbacks. In this paper, we carry out an experimental comparison of several orthogonal moments for the character recognition problem. Firstly, we compare orthogonal moments with other kinds of feature extraction methods and after that, we compare the different orthogonal moments taking into account different evaluation parameters. Experiments were made by using printed and handwritten digit datasets and the well-known measures: precision, recall and accuracy were used to validate the results. This experimental study corroborates the good performance of orthogonal moments. Besides, more specific results obtained in different kinds of experimentations allow coming to conclusions that could be very useful for the community of image recognition practitioners

    Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts

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    We 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

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    La datación por Resonancia Paramagnética Electrónica de materiales cuaternarios

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    This paper intends to provide an overview of the basic principles, potential and current limitations of the Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) dating method. Like Luminescence dating, ESR is a palaeodosimetric method based on the evaluation and quantification of the radiation dose absorbed by a sample resulting from its prolonged exposure to natural radioactivity. Despite a lower precision compared to other more established methods like14 C, U-series or Ar/Ar, ESR offers an unbeatable versatility. It can date a wide range of materials (e.g., carbonates, phosphates, silicates or sulfates), although ESR dating of fossil teeth and quartz grains are by far the most popular applications. Finally, beyond geochronology, ESR is also of special interest in other kinds of Quaternary studies rather focused on thermochronometry, palaeotemperature evaluation or sediment provenance, among others.Full Tex
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