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The NCP excavations in the West Mouth
No full textBook synopsis: This book is the companion volume to Rainforest Foraging and Farming in Island Southeast Asia: the Archaeology of the Niah Caves, Sarawak. Together they present the results of new fieldwork in the caves and new studies of finds from earlier excavations, a project that has involved a team of over 70 archaeologists and geographers. Rainforest Foraging and Farming told the story of human activity in the caves over the past 50,000 years and how that story throws light on the history of our species in Island Southeast Asia from the time when modern humans first arrived to recent centuries. Archaeological Investigations in the Niah Caves describes the very wide range of methodologies used by the project to collect its evidence, and the key information from those studies about the changing nature of the rainforest over the past 50,000 years and how it sustained the lives of the people who used the caves for shelter or burying their dead. The deep history of rainforest lives Together, the two volumes affirm the unique importance of the Niah Caves for world heritage
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
The NCP Excavations in Lobang Hangus, Lobang Tulang, Gan Kira and Kain Hitam
No full textOne
of
the
more
persistent
gaps
in
our
knowledge
of
prehistoric
human
adaptation
to
tropical
environments
is
the
lack
of
developed
models
of
early
forager
mobility
and
site
function
in
Southeast
Asia.
This
situation
has
been
perpetuated,
partly
by
the
practical
constraints
that
working
in
the
humid
tropics
places
of
identifying
and
excavating
new
and
well
preserved
sites;
but
partly
also
on
methodological
grounds.
In
particular,
there
has
often
been
a
‘cellular’
approach
to
tropical
subsistence
reconstruction
–
where
‐
by
each
site
locale
is
assumed
to
express
a
complete
and
representative
record
of
a
whole
foraging
economy.
The
archaeological
work
being
undertaken
in
Tràng
An,
Vietnam,
is
beginning
to
address
this
issue
through
its
focus
on
reconstructing
a
foraging
landscape.
In
this
paper
we
present
multi
‐
proxy
data
combining
traditional
and
state
‐
of
‐
the
‐
art
approaches
to
archaeological
and
palaeo
‐
environmental
research
to
further
elucidate
the
issue
of
tropical
forager
mobility
and
habitat
use
during
the
Late
Pleistocene.
Insights
are
drawn
from
the
study
of
a
new
cave
site,
Hang
Tr
ố
ng,
and
the
way
its
record
of
occupation
compares
to
that
obtained
by
our
project
from
a
near
‐
by
and
chrono
‐
culturally
overlapping
site,
Hang
Boi.
Through
the
evidence
presented
we
reveal
a
more
‘compositional’
nature
to
prehistoric
tropical
foraging,
where
‐
by
different
landscape
locales
represent
integrated
parts
of
early
economic
systems
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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