1,720,990 research outputs found

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

    Get PDF
    The 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

    The transition from diffuse atomic clouds to dense molecular clouds

    Get PDF
    Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-17T16:09:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 2990.pdf: 14011 bytes, checksum: 8ed11cac50ef632a783fea223aa86dd6 (MD5) license.txt: 4802 bytes, checksum: 58353f9dd6876860dd5221f3d7872a95 (MD5) Previous issue date: 6Made available in DSpace on 2018-12-12T22:37:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 4 2990.pdf.txt: 1012 bytes, checksum: 07e56b7e1c7528ccedd37f6908ba77ad (MD5) license.txt: 4802 bytes, checksum: 58353f9dd6876860dd5221f3d7872a95 (MD5) 2990.pdf: 14011 bytes, checksum: 8ed11cac50ef632a783fea223aa86dd6 (MD5) 1097330.pdf: 11348871 bytes, checksum: b014d8eae09f380365b16e14ffd7b6a4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 6We explore the transition from diffuse to dense molecular gas by combining a variety of tracers for density and composition. Observations and chemical modeling of CH, CH+, and CN absorption at visible wavelengths from McDonald Observatory and the European Southern Observatory are combined with ultraviolet observations of CO and H2 absorption from the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer and the Hubble Space Telescope, as well as emission data from the GOT C+ survey with the Herschel Space Telescope. The selected tracers from visible, ultraviolet, and radio wavelengths allow the characterization of neutral diffuse gas, including CO-dark gas. Sight lines, such as those toward h and χ Persei or those toward Chamaeleon provide a opportunity to examine the transition from atomic to molecular gas and help to describe the nature of the gas

    THE TRANSITION FROM DIFFUSE ATOMIC CLOUDS TO DENSE MOLECULAR CLOUDS

    No full text
    We explore the transition from diffuse to dense molecular gas by combining a variety of tracers for density and composition. Observations and chemical modeling of CH, CH+ ⁣^{+}\!, and CN absorption at visible wavelengths from McDonald Observatory and the European Southern Observatory are combined with ultraviolet observations of CO and H2_{2} absorption from the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer and the Hubble Space Telescope, as well as emission data from the GOT C+ survey with the Herschel Space Telescope. The selected tracers from visible, ultraviolet, and radio wavelengths allow the characterization of neutral diffuse gas, including CO-dark gas. Sight lines, such as those toward h and χ\chi Persei or those toward Chamaeleon provide a opportunity to examine the transition from atomic to molecular gas and help to describe the nature of the gas

    The co transition from diffuse molecular gas to dense clouds: Preliminary results

    Get PDF
    The atomic to molecular transitions occurring in diffuse interstellar gas surrounding molecular clouds are affected by the local physical conditions (density and temperature) and the radiation field penetrating the material. The material is closely connected to CO-dark gas, which is not associated with emission from H~\small{I} at 21 cm or from CO at 2.6 mm. Using optical observations of CH, CH+^{+} and CN absorption from McDonald Observatory and the European Southern Observatory in conjunction with UV observations of CO and H2_{2} absorption from FUSE, we explore the changing environment between diffuse and dense gas, emphasizing trends in column density, excitation temperature, gas density, and velocity structure. This presentation will focus on the completed analysis involving H2_{2} and on the preliminary results of CO for our sample.Made available in DSpace on 2017-01-26T21:37:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 1814.pdf: 13838 bytes, checksum: bd4e121a3a849e4f886a22cf43352116 (MD5) 665738.pdf: 12468648 bytes, checksum: 05599d8cca1ec6666545a4ce8b4f147c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-06-2

    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 PDF
    We 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 PDF
    We 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

    Author Index

    No full text
    Nao informado

    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

    No full text
    We 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
    corecore