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DTB 027 Erica Thomas Maull 6-8-2022
Get PDFIn this interview, Erica Thomas Maull is interviewed by Jada Jones and Ryan Morini at her home in Mobile, Alabama. Ms. Maull discusses growing up Down the Bay, and relates some of her family history—including her parents’ florist shop, which they built in their backyard. She also discusses some of the businesses she remembers, both downtown and Down the Bay, and describes how her family navigated the segregated Mobile she grew up in
Erica (Thomas) Switzer
No full textErica (Thomas) Switzer, class of 2000, grew up in Maywood, in Cook County. She did very well in school growing up, went into an accelerated learning program, and still wanted more of a challenge. An IMSA recruiter visited her school and she immediately did everything she could to attend.
Switzer met her best friend the summer before starting at IMSA and they became roommates. Despite not always getting along in the first year, they learned a lot from the experience. Academically, Switzer felt challenged at first, but learned to ask for help. She loved her chemistry classes and enjoyed humanities and world languages as well. English classes helped her to flourish as a writer, an interest she\u27d had from a young age, and she even learned to love writing papers.
Outside of classes, Switzer actively participated in all sorts of cultural events and especially enjoyed Diwali and Lunar New Year. She was a part of the poetry club, the Poetry in Motion dance club, sang in the choir, and did comedy with Club Pseudo.
Switzer attended Lake Forest College and thought she would study business, but she switched to majoring in English. She then got a Masters in English Literature from DePaul University. For a while she worked in a corporate job and, facing personal challenges, she then found her way back into writing and comedy. She spent 4 years in China where she taught English literature, and also took up public speaking and comedy again.
Switzer has since returned to the Chicago area and she is a comedian. She credits IMSA with her inquiry-based approach to life and learning. Even in comedy, she describes the scientific approach to testing out jokes and observing reactions. She remembers her IMSA experience fondly and says she wouldn\u27t change a thing.
Interviewer: Sara Goek. Duration: 19:59https://digitalcommons.imsa.edu/oral_histories/1029/thumbnail.jp
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
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
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