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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
Efecto antitumoral del selenito sódico solo y en combinación con gemcitabina en cáncer de páncreas: Estudios in vitro e in vivo
Full text linkLos resultados obtenidos pusieron de manifiesto la potente
capacidad antitumoral in vitro del selenito sódico solo y sinérgica en
combinación con gemcitabina. Estos estudios mostraron asimismo que
la actividad antitumoral del selenito no ocasiona paradas destacables en
el ciclo celular y sí afecta a la despolarización mitocondrial. Al analizar
el mecanismo de muerte celular pudo comprobarse que es dependiente
de la activación de la enzima reparadora PARP y de la traslocación
nuclear del factor mitocondrial AIF. Por otro lado, pudo comprobarse que la sinergia entre el selenito y la gemcitabina se encuentra
relacionado con que el selenito es capaz de activar el factor p38 que se
encuentra íntimamente relacionado con la muerte celular tumoral
ocasionada por la gemcitabina. Al analizar parámetros de agresividad
tumoral pudo comprobarse como el selenito tanto solo como en
combinación con la gemcitabina es capaz de disminuir la migración
celular tumoral, la formación de colonias, la formación de esferos de
CSCs, el crecimiento de los MTS y la angiogénesis tumoral.
Todos estos hechos quedaron demostrados con los estudios con
animales de experimentación donde se comprobó que el selenito tanto
solo como en combinación con gemcitabina, en este último caso, de
forma más acentuada, inhibe el crecimiento tumoral, la actividad
tumoral, incrementa la supervivencia de los ratones y además
disminuye in vivo los parámetros de agresividad tumoral como
marcadores proliferativos, de invasividad y angiogénesis.
Es por ello, que el selenito sódico tanto solo como en
combinación con gencitabina posee una prometedora actividad
antitumoral contra el cáncer de páncreas tanto in vitro como in vivo con
animales de experimentación, justificándose por ello la realización de
ensayos clínicos en humanos de cara a confirmar estos hallazgos.The results obtained showed the potent in vitro antitumor
capacity of sodium selenite alone and synergistically in combination
with gemcitabine. These studies also showed that selenite's antitumor
activity does not cause notable cell cycle stops and does affect
mitochondrial depolarization. When analyzing the mechanism of cell
death, it was found that it is dependent on the activation of the repairing
enzyme PARP and the nuclear translocation of the mitochondrial factor
AIF. On the other hand, it was found that the synergy between selenite
and gemcitabine is related to the fact that selenite is capable of activating
factor p38, which is closely related to tumor cell death caused by
gemcitabine. When analyzing tumor aggressiveness parameters, it was
possible to verify how selenite both alone and in combination with
gemcitabine is capable of reducing tumor cell migration, colony formation, CSC spherical formation, MTS growth and tumor
angiogenesis.
All these facts were demonstrated with studies with
experimental animals where it was found that selenite both alone and in
combination with gemcitabine, in the latter case, in a more accentuated
way, inhibits tumor growth, tumor activity, increases survival of the
mice and also decreases in vivo tumor aggressiveness parameters such
as proliferative markers, invasiveness and angiogenesis.
That is why sodium selenite both alone and in combination with
gemcitabine has promising antitumor activity against pancreatic cancer
both in vitro and in vivo with experimental animals, thus justifying the
performance of clinical trials in humans in order to confirm these
findings.Tesis Univ. Granada
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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