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Variations on the Author
No full text“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
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Larry O. Spencer, Conference Author Presentation
No full textGen. Larry O. Spencer, USAF (Ret.), author of Dark Horse: A Journey from the Horseshoe to the Pentago
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
Current Research into Applications of Tomography for Fusion Diagnostics
No full textRetrieving spatial distribution of plasma emissivity from line integrated measurements on tokamaks presents a challenging task due to ill-posedness of the tomography problem and limited number of the lines of sight. Modern methods of plasma tomography therefore implement a-priori information as well as constraints, in particular some form of penalisation of complexity. In this contribution, the current tomography methods under development (Tikhonov regularisation, Bayesian methods and neural networks) are briefly explained taking into account their potential for integration into the fusion reactor diagnostics. In particular, current development of the Minimum Fisher Regularisation method is exemplified with respect to real-time reconstruction capability, combination with spectral unfolding and other prospective tasks
A total neutron yield constraint implemented to the RNC emissivity reconstruction on ITER tokamak
No full textThe purpose of the ITER Radial Neutron Camera (RNC) is the measurement of the plasma neutron emissivity profile [neutrons∙s−1 m-3] for burn control purposes. The present RNC design consists of 22 collimated detector systems providing a set of line-integrated neutron measurements [neutrons∙s−1 m-2] with full coverage of the plasma poloidal cross-section; the neutron emissivity can be recovered from the line-integrated measurements by means of dedicated reconstruction techniques (1D spatial inversion, 2D tomography). The present paper focuses on the evaluation of the improvement in the RNC 2D reconstruction of the neutron emissivity obtained by using the total neutron yield value provided by an independent diagnostic as additional constraint in the tomography procedure. The analysis was performed using a tomography code based on the Minimum Fisher Regularization (MFR). A clear improvement of the neutron emissivity reconstruction has been observed when the total neutron yield constraint is considered. The improvement is seen in: extension of the spatial region in which the accuracy of the reconstruction is better than 10 %; better reconstruction of peaked emissivity profiles; and robustness against measurements noise and line of sight data loss
Grafias da luz: a narrativa visual sobre a cidade na Revista Blumenau em Cadernos
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas. Programa de Pós-Graduação em História.O foco desta dissertação é a narrativa visual sobre a cidade de Blumenau por meio da Revista Blumenau em Cadernos, periódico dedicado à história de Santa Catarina. No decorrer da pesquisa, relacionou-se a revista com o seu fundador, José Ferreira da Silva, um intelectual com considerável produção sobre a história de Blumenau enquanto escritor e jornalista, para então estabelecer a trajetória da revista, assim como sua linha editorial. A narrativa visual presente na Revista Blumenau em Cadernos evidencia a presença de alguns personagens constantes nas suas edições, em que são reproduzidas fotografias do final do século XIX e início do século XX. Nelas figuram os primeiros colonizadores e os indígenas, formando uma narrativa sobre a colonização de Blumenau, constituindo o mito fundador local. Faz-se uma leitura da narrativa fotográfica sobre a cidade de Blumenau do século XIX aos anos 50, quando se comemorou o centenário da cidade. Estas imagens dos postais, criadas inicialmente para divulgar a cidade, também evidenciam uma narrativa do progresso em que o presente é compreendido como resultado do passado. Estas imagens perpetuam os espaços de memória da cidade ao serem selecionadas para ilustrar os textos veiculados na Revista Blumenau em Cadernos, nesta narrativa temos a repetição do mito fundador da cidade. The focus in this paper is the visual narrative about Blumenau city through the magazine Blumenau em Cadernos, which is dedicated to the history of Santa Catarina, mainly to the local history. Throughout the research, the magazine was related to its founder, José Ferreira da Silva, an intellectual with considerable production about Blumenau history while writer and journalist, to so establish the magazine trajectory, as well as its editorial line. The visual narrative present in the magazine Blumenau em Cadernos evidences the presence of some constant characters in its editions, in which are reproduced photographs taken between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century. In them are the first settlers and the Indians, forming a narrative about the colonization of Blumenau, constituting the local founder myth. It is made a reading on the photographic narrative about Blumenau from the nineteenth century, the fifties, when it was commemorated the city centennial. This narrative began with three photographic images of Blumenau Settlement and continued with two series of postcards: one from 1900 with 45 cards, and another from the twenties, with 25 cards. These images from the postcards, created initially to spread the city, also evidence a narrative of the progress in which the present moment is understood as a result from the past. These images perpetuate the city memory spaces as they were selected to illustrate the texts published in the magazine Blumenau em Cadernos, in this narrative there is the repetition of the city founder myth
Imigrantes entre a e cruz e a espada :
No full textDissertação (Mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1902-1907
No full textIn this second volume of Author Under Sail Jay Williams investigates the life of Jack London as a professional writer at the turn of the 1900s, as his publications spanned The Call of the Wild to The Iron Heel and The Road. While documenting key life events, especially his rising fame, this biography explores London's necessity to illustrate the inner workings of his own vast imagination through his socialist essays and fiction.Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Howl, O Heav'nly Muse! -- 2. Jesus in the Theater of Socialism -- 3. Jack London's Place in American Literature -- 4. Theater of War, Theater at Home -- 5. Revolution, Evolution, and the Scene of Writing -- 6. The Jack London Show Goes on the Road -- 7. Red Atavisms and Revolution -- 8. Earthquake Apocalypse and Building the City, Boat, and House Beautiful -- 9. The Future of Socialism and the Death of the Individual -- 10. The Road Never Ends -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexIn this second volume of Author Under Sail Jay Williams investigates the life of Jack London as a professional writer at the turn of the 1900s, as his publications spanned The Call of the Wild to The Iron Heel and The Road. While documenting key life events, especially his rising fame, this biography explores London's necessity to illustrate the inner workings of his own vast imagination through his socialist essays and fiction.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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