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The Latin and French antecedents of the Spanish lives of St. Mary Magdalene and St Martha in ms Escorial h.I 13.
No full textPhDThe Spanish Magdalene and Martha lives in MS Escorial
h. I. 13 are translations of Old French texts represented by
MSS C and F respectively, and not of any other Latin or
French source. The C French and D Franco-Provençal versions
of the Magdalene life are independent translations of the
Latin B text, and the F and C5 French versions of the Martha
life are independently executed versions of the Latin E text.
There are, however, some puzzling affinities between the
Latin and Spanish texts.
The shorter Latin Magdalene life A. is the original
version, which was elaborated to form the longer Latin life
B. The C French translation is shorter than B. but its
source is the longer B rather than the shorter A. text, the
differences between original and translation being
explained by the adaptive translation process. Comparison
between the more complete D translation and the simplifying
C text shows that the two versions C and D were intended
for very different uses.
The two-French Martha translations, F and C5 are from
Latin originals much closer to the E Latin text than to the
Sanctuarium. F is a simplifying translation, intended, like
the C Magdalene text, for oral delivery, while, C5 is a more
complete rendering, intended for private reading by
aristocratic ladies.
The Spanish MS could not have contained complete,
translations of both the Magdalene and the Martha lives,
since the missing, four folios would not have been sufficient
for the material involved. The distribution of non-standard
linguistic features shows that the two Spanish texts are
the work of two different translators. The Spanish
translations are both, in general, accurately and
competently executed, but the differing numbers of errors,
additions, omissions and changes in each confirms that they
are the work of two different translators
Spatial land cover pattern analysis
No full textIn the previous chapters we introduced land cover classifications, fractional cover and time-series analysis. All these approaches aimed to extract ecological relevant information based on the spectral signal. However differentiating a tree plantation (spatially regularly planted trees of same species, age, height) from a natural forest based on the spectral signal only might be quite challenging since the spectral signals might be quite similar but their spatial heterogeneity is different. A tree plantation will not have a high spatial variation in its spectral signal due to the same age and height of the trees while a natural forest will have different tree heights with casting shadows or even tree fall gaps, hence such a forest will show up with a higher spatial variation. Such information can be retrieved using texture metrics based on remote sensing data sets e.g. the NDVI
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
From Spectral to Ecological Information
No full textThe interpretation of spectral information is at the very core of remote sensing data analysis. However, the spectral signal carries much more information about the land surface than just what is readily accessible to the human eye. In order to harness this information the original bands are often transformed into new synthetic bands, so-called spectral indices, by mathematical operations combining multiple bands. These spectral indices combine several advantages over just using the original reflectance. Firstly, they can dramatically enhance the separability of certain specific land cover types in visual or automated image interpretation, e.g. vegetation versus open soil. Secondly, many indices involve mathematical division of bands which has a normalizing effect on illumination variability within a single scene and also between scenes. This can reduce terrain or cloud-induced illumination effects, improve multi-temporal comparability in a time-series and may even reduce the need for precise atmospheric correction. Thirdly, spectral indices are usually geared towards describing actual physical measures of the land surface, such as the degree of vegetation cover or water stress within vegetation. These are measures which allow interpretation in an ecological context, while it is hard to reason what e.g. a reflectance of 20% in the green band actually means
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
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