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Tacoma Narrows Bridge wrecked by wind, November 14, 1940
No full textArticle from This Week in Engineering and Construction published in the Engineering News-Record, November 14, 1940
enr.com: Engineering News-Record
No full textWith origins dating back to the 1800s, the Engineering News-Record (ENR) has served the construction industry for generations. Now published in an online edition, ENR has information about construction technology, power and industrial issues, environment, and much more. One of the most interesting sections of the site focuses on new projects around the world, describing innovative buildings and structures, transportation systems, or anything related to construction. Each issue has in-depth feature stories, and a recent one assessed the cleanup and rebuilding operations at the World Trade Center site. ENR is an excellent resource for technical and business related news
Article: Reston: The New Town Planned to Stop Urban Sprawl, Anonymous, January 28, 1965.
No full textArticle: 11" x 8.5" (27.9cm x 21.6cm)Article, "Reston: The New Town Planned to Stop Urban Sprawl," Anonymous, printed in Engineering News-Record, reprinted from January 28, 1965. This article uses Reston to illustrate vital planning principals for controlling the chaotic sprawled development that has consumed land with reckless abandon, created traffic jams and driven community costs skyward in the last twenty years. An early look into Reston's Year 2000 plan; developer Robert E. Simon, planner William J. Conklin; and an editorial about Reston. Planned Communitiy Archives Collection, 444.03
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
Reliability of Engineering News-Record international construction data
Full text linkSince the late 1970s, the Engineering News-Record (ENR) has produced annual lists ranking firms involved in development of the built environment on the basis of their international revenues. ENR lists, such as the Top 225 International Contractors and the Top 200 International Design Firms, have become popular datasets for international construction research. Nonetheless, given that the ENR data are self-reported, reviewers for journals and research funding bodies frequently question the reliability of the data. The aim of this research is to ascertain the extent to which the self-report ENR data can be considered reliable for international construction research. Inter-data reliability tests conducted to measure the levels of resemblance between the ENR data and annual report data of 51 sample companies found that, contrary to the prevalent view that companies reporting to the ENR tend to inflate their revenues, there are no systematic errors in the ENR data. Although slight discrepancies were found, ENR data can be confidently used for international construction research. Journal reviewers and editors should be more open to ENR international construction data, rather than taking the default position that the data are inherently and seriously problematic and thus automatically dismissing those studies that use such data.postprin
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
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