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Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe 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
Michael Pearson, 26th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textMichael Pearson is the director of the creative writing program at Old Dominion University. He has published essays and stories in The New York Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Boston Globe, The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, The Washington Post, The Journal of American Culture, and Creative Nonfiction, among others. He is author of four books of nonfiction. His first book, Imagined Places: Journeys into Literary America, was listed as one of the notable books of the year by the 1992 New York Times Book Review. His most recent book, Dreaming of Columbus: A Boyhood in the Bronx, was published in 1999. Willie Morris, former editor of Harper\u27s, said, Michael Pearson is one of our nation\u27s finest memoirists. Dreaming of Columbus should give him the reputation among American writers he so richly deserves. Pearson\u27s first novel, Shohola Falls, will be published by Syracuse University Press in fall 2003
Michael Pearson, 23rd Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textMichael Pearson is the director of the Creative Writing Program at Old Dominion University. He has published essays and stories in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The Southern Literary Journal, and Creative Nonfiction, among others.
He is the author of four books. His first book, Imagined Places: Journeys Into Literary America (1991) was listed by The New York Times Book Review as one of the notable books of the year. His new book, Dreaming of Columbus: A Boyhood in the Bronx, was published in 1999. Willie Morris, the former editor of Harper’s, said, Michael Pearson is one of our nation’s finest memoirists. Dreaming of Columbus. . . should give him the reputation among American writers he so richly deserves
Michael Pearson, 22nd Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textMichael Pearson is the director of the creative writing program at Old Dominion University. He has published essays and stories in The New York Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The Journal of American Culture, The Southern Literary Journal and Creative Nonfiction, among others. He is the author of four books. His first book, Imagined Places: Journeys Into Literary America was published in 1991 and listed by The New York Times Book Review as one of the notable books of the year. His new book, Dreaming of Columbus: A Boyhood in the Bronx, was published in 1999. Willie Morris, the former editor of Harper\u27s, said, Michael Pearson is one of our nation\u27s finest memoirists. Dreaming of Columbus...should give him the reputation among American writers he so richly deserves
1993-1994 T. R. Pearson
No full textT. R. Pearson, a.k.a. Rick Gavin, was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He was a student at North Carolina State University, where he gained a B.A. and M.A. in English. He was the first recipient of the John and Renée Grisham Writer in Residence Fellowship. He is the acclaimed author of fourteen novels, including A Short History of a Small Place and Warwolf, and a dozen screenplays. Top of the Rock is his fifth nonfiction book. He lives in Virginia and Brooklyn, New York. (Photo credit: Marian Young)https://egrove.olemiss.edu/grisham_res/1026/thumbnail.jp
Seize the day Lester B. Pearson and crisis diplomacy
No full textIn this uniquely insightful and informed account of Lester B. Pearson's foreign policy in the year 1948-1957, his son Geoffrey Pearson places the "Golden Age" of Canadian diplomacy in perspective. Holding the necessary balance between nationalism and realism in a particularly unstable time emerges as Pearson's overriding achievement as Secretary of State for External Affairs. It was a time when Canadian influence was felt around the world, and it culminated with a Nobel Peace Prize for Pearson. The author examines his father's politics in the context of Cold War stand-off, relations with the United States, the pressures for collective security, and the threat of nuclear war. Research into cabinet documents, combined with more personal sources, provides an especially strong picture of the Pearson legacy and its future implications for Canadian foreign policy
Principles of economics : Pearson Horizon Edition
No full textThis is a specially adapted edition of an established title widely used by colleges and universities throughout the world and may not lawfully be sold in the USA or Canada. Pearson published this exclusive edition solely for the benefit of students outside the United States and Canada, and if you purchased this book within the United States or Canada you should be aware that it has been illegally imported without the permission of the Publisher or the Author
Properties of Binary Pearson Codes
No full textWe consider the transmission and storage of data that use coded symbols over a channel, where a Pearson-distance-based detector is used for achieving resilience against unknown channel gain and offset, and corruption with additive noise. We discuss properties of binary Pearson codes, such as the Pearson noise distance that plays a key role in the error performance of Pearson-distance-based detection. We also compare the Pearson noise distance to the well-known Hamming distance, since the latter plays a similar role in the error performance of Euclidean-distance-based detection.Discrete Mathematics and Optimizatio
Pearson codes design with error-control capabilities
No full textIn mass storage systems or certain transmission channels, such as optical data storage and non-volatile memory (flash), noise or interference is not the only disturbance during the data transmission, the error performance sometimes can be seriously degraded by the phenomena of unknown channel offset (drift) or gain mismatch, this is because the conventional minimum Euclidean distance decoding, where the receiver picks a codeword from the code book to minimise the Euclidean distance with the received codeword, doesn't offer resistance for the offset and gain mismatch. As a alternative to the minimum Euclidean distance detection, a new distance called Pearson distance and the Pearson-distance-based detection are introduced by Immink and Weber, where the error performance is immune to unknown offset and/or gain mismatch but more sensitive to the noise than the traditional Euclidean distance detection. In addition, the Pearson-distance-based decoding can only productively used for sets of q-ary codewords with some specific properties, which is a new class of code called Pearson code. Therefore, to make the Pearson-distance-based detection more applicable against the channel noise, it is crucial to improve the error control capabilities of Pearson code. In this thesis, we will investigate the performance of different Pearson codes in the Pearson-distance-based detection for offset-only mismatch case and offset-and-gain mismatch case. We will analyze the factors that can reflect or affect the performance of the Pearson code by studying the relations between Pearson distance and Hamming distance. The simulation results will be compared and discussed, the advices for improving the error control capability of the Pearson code will be given according the factors we found.Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer ScienceIntelligent System
Michael Patrick Pearson, 46th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textMichael Patrick Pearson, for many years a professor of creative writing and literature at Old Dominion University, has published essays and reviews in The Boston Globe, The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Southern Literary Journal, Shenandoah Review, Chautauqua, The Morning News, Creative Nonfiction, The New York Journal of Books, and others. He is the author of many books – among them Imagined Places: Journeys into Literary America (1991 –a NYT Notable Book), Dreaming of Columbus: A Boyhood in the Bronx (1999),Innocents Abroad Too (2008 -- a narrative about two journeys around the world by ship), Reading Life -- On Books, Memory, and Travel (2015), and Shohola Falls (2003 -- a coming-of-age novel that imagines the hidden life of Mark Twain and the journal of Thomas Blankenship (the real-life Huck Finn). His new book, The Road to Dungannon (2023), is a narrative about his maternal grandfather, Irish history and literature, and the writer\u27s travels around the island. Willie Morris, the former editor of Harper\u27s, said, Michael Pearson is one of our nation\u27s finest memoirists
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