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No full textdicker v....if you was independent enough you take your own voyage an' carry it into St. John's an' dicker with somebody or another- a Spaniard or somebody, then _ an clear of it that way. (bargain?)YesJ.D.A WIDDOWSON JUL 1973not usedNot usedWithdraw
Obesity is a chronic progressive relapsing disease of particular interest for internal medicine
No full textMeSH 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.
Comment Construire un Roman d’après La Vérité sur l’Affaire Harry Québert de Joël Dicker
No full textتتناول هذه المقالة رواية «الحقيقة حول قضية هاري كيبير» لجويل ديكر. فتطرح بداية كيفية مقاربة خفايا الكتابة والإستراتيجيات المختلفة بغية نشر رواية ناجحة. ففي حين يدور هذا البحث الروائي حول سؤال البنية الروائية، فأن شخصيتيه الرئيسيتين، وهما ههنا الأستاذ والكاتب، تنطلقان في الوقت نفسه في بحث شبه روحاي. فالحبكة الروائية التي تدور حول نشر تحقيق بوليسي يورط هاري كبير المتهم بجرعة قتل تطرح أيضا على لسان الراوي ماركوس غولدمان تسالات تتعلق بالتكوين السردي. فبغية كتابة هذه الرواية، قام جويل ديكر علاقاة الوسائل الإعلامية المختلفة، ومطابقة المراحل الزمنية ووجهات النظر، مزيلا بحذق ما بعده حذق الحدود بين الحقيقة والخداع. ولعل القاريء حين اطلاعه على هذه الرواية يشعر وكأنه يطلع أيضا على شهادة عصر باكمله، لا بل على ملخص موسوعي حقيقي.Cet article se propose d'aborder les arcanes de l'écriture et les différentes stratégies pour publier un roman à succès d'après « La Vérité sur l'affaire Harry Québert » de Joël Dicker. En effet, dans ce récit, tout tourne autour d'une question fondamentale : « Comment construire un roman ? ». D 'ailleurs, les personnages principaux sont un professeur et un écrivain qui se lancent dans cette quête quasi- mystique. De plus, l'intrigue tourne autour de la publication d'une enquête policière qui implique Harry Québert, suspecté de meurtre. Le texte en entier baigne dans les interrogations du narrateur Marcus Goldmann sur la construction narrative. Pour rédiger ce roman, Joël Dicker a croisé divers supports médiatiques, a superposé les périodes et les points de vue, a subtilement flouté la frontière entre la vérité et le mensonge. Le lecteur a ainsi l'impression de lire le témoignage de toute une époque mais aussi un véritable condensé encyclopédique.Cet article se propose d'aborder les arcanes de l'écriture et les différentes stratégies pour publier un roman à succès d'après « La Vérité sur l'affaire Harry Québert » de Joël Dicker. En effet, dans ce récit, tout tourne autour d'une question fondamentale : « Comment construire un roman ? ». D 'ailleurs, les personnages principaux sont un professeur et un écrivain qui se lancent dans cette quête quasi- mystique. De plus, l'intrigue tourne autour de la publication d'une enquête policière qui implique Harry Québert, suspecté de meurtre. Le texte en entier baigne dans les interrogations du narrateur Marcus Goldmann sur la construction narrative. Pour rédiger ce roman, Joël Dicker a croisé divers supports médiatiques, a superposé les périodes et les points de vue, a subtilement flouté la frontière entre la vérité et le mensonge. Le lecteur a ainsi l'impression de lire le témoignage de toute une époque mais aussi un véritable condensé encyclopédique
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
Internal medicine in the 21st century: Back to the future
No full textHealthcare systems face multiple challenges arising from demographic factors (population aging) and epidemiological factors (rise of chronic diseases and patients with multimorbidity) as well as threats to their financial sustainability when maintaining equitable access to medical and technological advances. Current healthcare models, based on specialized medical care, lead to fragmented care that can be harmful to the patient and is inefficient for the system due to the overuse of redundant, low-value medical acts. Internal medicine is the hospital-centered general medical specialty par excellence, providing a comprehensive and holistic vision that is centered on the patient and not on the disease. Internists should be the leading physicians in the hospital setting for complex patients with or those with an uncertain diagnosis. Internists must play a key role, as hospitalists do, in the continued care of acute patients hospitalized for medical or surgical diseases, establishing shared care models in multidisciplinary teams. Likewise, to guarantee continuity of care for chronic patients, internists must establish mechanisms for collaboration with primary care and nursing, participating in the development of new out-of-hospital care models that use the available technological resources. Internal medicine should play a leading role in graduate and postgraduate medical education to promote a holistic vision among medical students and residents in medical subspecialties
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
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