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Jacques-Albert Cuttat, La rencontre des religions, avec une étude sur la spiritualité de l'Orient chrétien
No full textDevolder P. D. Jacques-Albert Cuttat, La rencontre des religions, avec une étude sur la spiritualité de l'Orient chrétien. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Troisième série, tome 56, n°52, 1958. pp. 671-672
MeSH term explosion and author rank improve expert recommendations
No full textInformation overload is an often-cited phenomenon that reduces the productivity, efficiency and efficacy of scientists. One challenge for scientists is to find appropriate collaborators in their research. The literature describes various solutions to the problem of expertise location, but most current approaches do not appear to be very suitable for expert recommendations in biomedical research. In this study, we present the development and initial evaluation of a vector space model-based algorithm to calculate researcher similarity using four inputs: 1) MeSH terms of publications; 2) MeSH terms and author rank; 3) exploded MeSH terms; and 4) exploded MeSH terms and author rank. We developed and evaluated the algorithm using a data set of 17,525 authors and their 22,542 papers. On average, our algorithms correctly predicted 2.5 of the top 5/10 coauthors of individual scientists. Exploded MeSH and author rank outperformed all other algorithms in accuracy, followed closely by MeSH and author rank. Our results show that the accuracy of MeSH term-based matching can be enhanced with other metadata such as author rank
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
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
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
Scholarly Communication and Publishing Lunch and Learn Talk #11: The ULS Open Access Author Fee Fund
No full textAt the May 2014 talk, you will learn about the ULS Open Access Author Fee Fund--what it is, why we do it, how it works, and how the program is going so far
Malia. Documentation 3D du Bâtiment Dessenne
No full textLe Bâtiment Dessenne fut découvert en 1960 lors du nettoyage de la Cour Ouest du Palais en vue de l’aménagement du site minoen de Malia pour les touristes qui commençaient à affluer sur le site. Le fouilleur, André Dessenne, nota d’emblée la qualité architecturale de l’édifice, dont les murs étaient soigneusement érigés en blocs de calcaire bleu local et en blocs de grès taillé issu des carrières qui longent le littoral de Malia. Certaines pièces étaient pourvues de plateformes basses enduites de plâtre et longées par des rigoles d’évacuation destinées à récupérer le liquide qui se serait échappé des grands vases de stockage entreposés dans ces ‘magasins’. Malgré l’importance de cette découverte, le décès prématuré d’André Dessenne provoqua l’abandon de la ruine, restée depuis 1960 la proie de la végétation. Cet abandon était d’autant plus regrettable que le Bâtiment Dessenne est régulièrement mentionné dans la littérature archéologique comme l’un des ‘grands ensembles’ maliotes de la période protopalatiale, peut-être la résidence d’individus particulièrement actifs dans la gestion des ressources agricoles ou la participation à des entreprises commerciales, éventuellement avec des régions lointaines. Pour faire face à cette situation, un nouveau projet d’étude et de publication de la ruine fut entamé en 2012 sous la direction de Maud Devolder (Humboldt Research Fellow, Topoi-FU Berlin), par l’École française d’Athènes. Il visait à produire un nouveau plan de l’édifice, à étudier le matériel issu des fouilles de 1960, et à dater la construction du bâtiment. Malheureusement, le mauvais état de conservation des murs, qui menaçaient de s’effondrer, a imposé le remblaiement de la ruine
The R&D Tax Incentives
No full textThis article sets out some background information and reflections of the author on the R&D tax incentive schemes included in the Common Corporate Tax Base (CCTB) Proposal. In particular the author analyzes the stimulus to private R&D through ad hoc tax incentives included in the CCTB Proposal and dives into the actual provisions included in the Proposal highlighting the most relevant issues connected with their design and interpretation. Moreover, the author explores the interaction between the CCTB Proposal and the granting by Member States of domestic R&D tax incentives
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