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A study of university students’ attitudes towards contemporary music in Guangxi Arts University in Nanning, China / Feng Yue
Get PDFThe purpose of this study was to investigate the students’ attitudes toward contemporary music in university. A sample of 100 music students from Guangxi Arts University in Nanning, China participated in this study. The survey designed for this study contained a set of questions that investigated on the students’ attitudes toward the contemporary music. The data analysis included descriptive statistics, T-test and analysis of variance (ANOVA) to evaluate the music students’ attitudes. In general, the findings revealed that the attitude scores did not differ significantly by gender and music courses that have been taken in university, but was found to differ significantly by music students’ years of music learning experience. Implications for contemporary music learning and research were discussed in this paper. Recommendations for further investigation were included
Phascolarctos stirtoni Bartholomai 1968
No full textPhascolarctos stirtoni Bartholomai, 1968 Holotype. QMF5707, right maxillary fragment with P 3, M 1–2, Cement Mills, Gore, southeastern Queensland (Late Pleistocene; Price et al., 2009). Diagnosis. See Bartholomai (1968).Published as part of Price, Gilbert J., Zhao, Jian-xin, Feng, Yue-xing & Hocknull, Scott A., 2009, New Records of Plio-Pleistocene Koalas from Australia: Palaeoecological and Taxonomic Implications, pp. 39-48 in Records of the Australian Museum 61 (1) on page 44, DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.61.2009.1518, http://zenodo.org/record/529788
Optimum seismic design of cable-stayed bridges based on multi-objective particle swarm optimization
No full textTo address the challenges of optimizing cable-stayed bridges under seismic loading, a multi-objective particle swarm optimization (PSO) procedure to optimize load-bearing components of cable-stayed bridges is presented. The procedure integrates numerical computing software MATLAB with finite element analysis software ANSYS. The final goal is to identify the optimal cross-sectional dimensions of towers and girders, as well as the optimal cross-sectional areas of cables and their corresponding pre-tension forces. The goal is achieved by coupling the PSO for global searching, time history analysis or spectrum analysis for dynamic evaluation, and the influence matrix method for determining the cable pre-tension forces. The effectiveness of proposed procedure is validated through a two dimensional (2D) and a three dimensional (3D) symmetric layout bridge. Following that, the design procedure is utilized in the preliminary design of a single tower bridge without backstays located in Pescara, Italy. The results demonstrate that the proposed optimization procedure could be an useful tool to optimize cable-stay bridges under seismic loading
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
Late Quaternary Fossil Vertebrates of the Broken River Karst Area, Northern Queensland, Australia
No full textPrice, Gilbert J., Cramb, Jonathan, Louys, Julien, Travouillon, Kenny J., Pease, Eleanor M. A., Feng, Yue-Xing, Zhao, Jian-Xin, Irvin, Douglas (2020): Late Quaternary Fossil Vertebrates of the Broken River Karst Area, Northern Queensland, Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 72 (5): 193-206, DOI: 10.3853/j.2201-4349.72.2020.1723, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.72.2020.172
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