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A Conversation with Frank Deford: Writing, Sports, and Frolics (audio)
No full textSportswriter, broadcaster and author Senior writer for Sports Illustrated Author of fourteen books including, An American Summer, Everybody\u27s All-A merican, and Alex: The Life of a Child Commentator on ESPN, NPR\u27s Morning Edition, & HBO\u27s RealSports with Bryant Gumbel Elected to the Hall of Fame of the National Association of Sportscasters and Sportswriter
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
President\u27s Lecture Series: Frank Deford, 31st Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textFrank Deford is the author of 15 books, with his newest, The Entitles, a novel about celebrity, sex and baseball, published in 2007. Deford may be heard as a commentator every Wednesday on NPR\u27s Morning Edition and he is a regular correspondent on the HBO show RealSports with Bryant Gumbel. He is also senior contributing writer at Sports Illustrated. Deford was elected to the Hall of Fame of the National Association of Sportscasters and Sportswriters, and six times was voted by his peers as U. S. Sportswriter of the Year. The American Journalism Review has likewise cited him as the nation\u27s finest sportswriter, and twice he was voted Magazine Writer of the Year by Washington Journalism Review. The recipient of many honorary degrees, Deford also has won the National Magazine Award for profiles, a Christopher Award and journalism Honor Awards from the University of Missouri and Northeastern University
Frank DeFord: Sports: The Hype and the Hoopla
No full textAuthor and commentator, Frank Deford is among the most versatile of American writers. His work has appeared in virtually every medium. The author of 15 books, his newest, The Entitled, a novel about celebrity, sex and baseball, was published in 2007.
On radio, Deford may be heard as a commentator every Wednesday on Morning Edition on National Public Radio and, on television, he is a regular correspondent on the HBO show, RealSports with Bryant Gumbel. In magazines, he is senior contributing writer at Sports Illustrated.
Moreover, two of Deford\u27s books - the novel, Everybody\u27s All-American, and Alex: The Life of a Child, his memoir about his daughter who died of cystic fibrosis - have been made into movies. Another of his books, Casey on the Loose, is being turned into a Broadway musical. Cathy Schulman, producer of 2005\u27s Best Picture, Crash, is producing Deford\u27s next film, a comedy, The Sister-in-Law.
As a journalist, Deford has been elected to the Hall of Fame of the National Association of Sportscasters and Sportswriters. Six times he was voted by his peers as U.S. Sportswriter of The Year. The American Journalism Review has likewise cited him as the nation\u27s finest sportswriter, and twice he was voted Magazine Writer of the Year by the Washington Journalism Review.
Deford has also been presented with the National Magazine Award for profiles, a Christopher Award, and journalism Honor Awards from the University of Missouri and Northeastern University, and he has received many honorary degrees. The Sporting News has described Deford as the most influential sports voice among members of the print media, and the magazine GQ has called him, simply, the world\u27s greatest sportswriter. In broadcast, Deford has won both an Emmy and a George Foster Peabody Award. ESPN presented a television biography of his life and work, You Write Better Than You Play. A popular lecturer, Deford has spoken at more than 100 colleges, as well as at forums, conventions and on cruise ships around the world
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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
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