1,720,970 research outputs found
Recommended from our members
Atomic Afterlives: Visualizing Nuclear Toxicity in U.S. Art and Visual Culture
No full text“Atomic Afterlives: Visualizing Nuclear Toxicity in U.S. Art and Visual Culture” examines how four underrepresented American artists grapple with the legacies of nuclear harm across ecological, temporal, and affective registers. Focusing on the work of Patrick Nagatani (1945–2017), Sharon Gilbert (1944–2005), Jack Malotte (Washoe/Western Shoshone, b. 1953), and Will Wilson (Diné, b. 1969), the dissertation argues that these artists have uniquely made visible what dominant histories seek to suppress: the slow violence of contamination, the disregard for affected communities, and the entanglement of nuclear activity with systems of militarization and settler-colonial control.
Through diverse aesthetic strategies, these artists trace how atomic afterlives sediment across landscapes and lives while imagining alternative ways of seeing and knowing. Rather than treating the Cold War as a closed or bounded historical moment, their work frames nuclearity as a persistent condition, one that resists linear periodization and unfolds across multiple scales of experience. In turn, this analysis follows the transhistorical and durational nature of nuclear violence, extending from the long logics of settler-colonial conquest to ecological futures still taking shape.
Working across photography, installation, print media, and collage, Nagatani, Gilbert, Malotte, and Wilson transform documentary and conceptual strategies into critical inquiries. Rather than offering passive representations of contamination, their works interrogate what I call dominant forms of nuclear-science visuality: state-sanctioned image systems that render nuclear harm abstract, sanitized, and distant. In response, these artists foreground the human and more-than-human costs of the atomic age through layering, counter-mapping, and speculative visuality
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
Art of the Interregnum in Canada’s Chemical Valley
No full textThis chapter examines few contemporary, experimental photo, video, and performance works that speak to the interregnum as it relates to a small corner of southern Ontario, Canada, which houses a dense area of petrochemical factories. In Canada, oil and gas industries are today almost synonymous with the province of Alberta, with its infamous tar sands, as well as with the various contested pipelines in it and other Western provinces. Less acknowledged is southern Ontario’s important role in this industry. The extractivist dreams and erasure of Indigenous peoples in what is today southern Ontario has a much longer history. The temporality of the photographs and video evoke the last 165 years of oil development in the area as something both historical and contemporary, foregone and still present. The photographs reference not only Lambton County’s past as an oil frontier town, but also, with the inclusion of modern-day infrastructure, the present
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
- …
