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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
ITINERAIRE THERAPEUTIQUE DES EPILEPTIQUES DANS L'ARRONDISSEMENT DE DJIDJA (DEPARTEMENT DU ZOU) AU BENIN
No full textEpilepsy is a universal and chronical disease but unequally from various causes. This disease has also some mystical causes which are misunderstanding by people.Thus, the access to antiepileptic drugs is difficult so that people suffering of this disease do not treat it.In order to identify therapeutic way a transversal investigation has been done from January 10th and February 11th 2005 at DJIDJA, ZOU department.The results are:• At the first seizure, 76.3% take care early of that disease.• 55.3% have seen the traditional healer.• The traditional treatment has many components such as: by medicine and some spices, have their meals without certain food.• About antiepileptic drugs, only Phenobarbital 50mg was accessible in the drugs stores, which worker.• The weak on the socioeconomic level, the socio cultural aspects of the disease and the far distance between the village and the hospital are the limits of the use of antiepileptic drugs.The results suggest that epilepsy is considered as natural disease; but people to recover by traditional healer most of the time. So the medical treatment comes secondarily. Then it's urgent to make sensibilisation in order to promote use of antiepileptic drug. This will help enormously epilepsy treatment in villagesL'épilepsie est une affection chronique, universelle mais sûrement inégalitaire d'étiologie et de pronostics variés. Cette affection est encore chargée de mythes dans la majeure partie de la population. L'accessibilité aux antiépileptiques n'est pas facile et une forte proportion de ces épileptiques se retrouve sans traitement.Une enquête transversale à visée descriptive s'est déroulée du 10 Janvier au 11 février 2005 dans le but d'identifier l'itinéraire thérapeutique des épileptiques dans l'arrondissement de DJIDJA, département du ZOU.Il ressort de cette que :• Dès la première crise, 76,3% des malades avaient recours aux soins • 55,3% des patients avaient recours aux tradipracticiens pour la consultation initiale• Le traitement traditionnel était fait de potions à prendre tout le temps mais aussi d'interdits alimentaire et de désenvoûtement selon le cas.• Le phénobarbital était le seul antiépileptique disponible dans la zone d'étude ; il coûtait 5 FCFA le comprimé de 50mg. • Le faible niveau socio-économique des épileptiques dont 59,3% étaient agriculteurs et 22,2% inactifs, constituait un facteur limitant l'accessibilité aux soins antiépileptiques.Ces résultats suggèrent que l'épilepsie est de plus en plus considérée comme une maladie naturelle pourtant ce sont les tradipracticiens qui sont les plus consultés. Le traitement médical est ainsi relégué au second plan. Il est urgent de renforcer la sensibilisation de la population et de promouvoir l'usage des médicaments antiépileptiques. Ceci afin d'améliorer la prise en charge des malades dans nos villages
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
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
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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