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Dėl lie. "dangus" etimologijos
No full textTradiciškai baltų kalbų ‘dangaus’ pavadinimas (lie. dangùs, pr. dangus) aiškinamas kaip veiksmažodžio deñgti derivatas, remiantis prielaida, kad dangus buvo suvokiamas kaip tam tikras išlenktas paviršius, dengiantis pasaulį. Tačiau šis tradicinis požiūris iki šiol palieka du klausimus atvirus: (1) kaip paaiškinti žodžio dangus darybą, panašesnę į būdvardžio negu į daiktavardžio; (2) kaip rekonstruoti praindoeuropietišką šios baltų kalbų leksinės šeimos priešistorę. Šio straipsnio tikslas – aptarti tiek morfologinę, tiek semantinę ‘dangaus’ pavadinimo struktūrą ir paaiškinti visas jo ypatybes, siūlant naują žodžio kilmės ir raidos hipotezę. Reikšminiai žodžiai: Etimologija; Istorinė kalbotyra; Etymology; Historical linguisticsTraditionally the Baltic name of the ‘sky’ (Lith. dangùs, Old Pr. dangus) is explained as derived from the verb deñgti ‘to cover’, based on the assumption that the sky was conceived of as a kind of curved surface covering the world. However, this traditional approach has left two questions open until now: (1) how to explain the formation of the word dangus, which is more akin to that of an adjective than to that of a noun; (2) how to reconstruct the PIE prehistory of this Baltic lexical family. The aim of this paper is to discuss both the morphological and the semantic structure of the word dangus and to explain all its features, by proposing a new hypothesis on its origin and development
Dangus senojoje baltų pasaulėvokoje
No full textIn the Baltic mythology and folklore, the sky covering the Earth and its bodies – the Sun, Moon, stars and their constellations are among the most prominent archaic images, comprising rather integral mythical celestial world. This article aims at reconstructing the model of the sky and highlighting at least the most outstanding features of this significant universal. The analysis comprises linguistic data preserving the relics of the ancient worldview, the written sources on the Baltic religion and mythology, and the rich and thriving Lithuanian and Latvian folklore tradition.The Lithuanian word dangus ‘sky’ derives from the verb dengti ‘to cover’. The old Prussians used similar denomination: dangus (acc. dangon, dengon, -an). Latvians, however, use the word debess ‘sky’. This word in Lithuanian denotes the visible atmospheric phenomenon: debesis ‘cloud’. Therefore, only Prussians and Lithuanians had the same lexeme denoting sky, which allows assuming that it was imagined as a certain cosmic cover or lid, placed high above and covering the humans and their earthly living.The article addresses the following subtopics: the etymology of the word dangus ‘sky’ and the notion of the sky; sky as God; the stony sky; the heavenly “pastures”; the levels of the sky; mediators between sky and Earth; sky as an afterworld; the gates of the sky; and the holiness of the sky.The author concludes that the Baltic mythology has preserved the image of the sky as the God, the heavenly Father, and as the light enveloping the human world or a mysterious power and energy affecting it. People used to imagine the sky as a certain entirety, as a transcendental boundless ephemeric space comprising the upper sphere of the mythical world. Observation of the sky and the movements of the celestial bodies used to inspire in the observing people feelings of religious kind, along with inevitable reverence manifested in the traditional social customs and rituals. There existed an entire system of taboos related to the sky and the celestial bodies, which also testifies to the sense of holiness attributed to this space.The reconstructed Baltic images of the sky preserve certain elements of the ancient IndoEuropean worldview. They present an important source for reconstructing not only the Baltic, but also the Indo-European mentality.Nagrinėjama baltų senoji dangaus samprata ir dangaus mitiniai vaizdiniai. Kai kurie iš tų vaizdinių, apie kurių genezę sprendžiama iš lingvistinių duomenų, rašytinių šaltinių, lietuvių ir latvių folkloro, savo kilme yra susiję su indoeuropiečių dvasine kultūra. Dalis jų yra vėlyvesni – bendri baltams ar žinomi tik lietuviams arba tik latviams. Straipsnyje siekiama rekonstruoti senąjį baltų dangaus modelį, jo bendriausius bruožus, jį sudarančius vaizdinius
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
Variations on the Author
No full text“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
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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