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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
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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe 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 removal of the consideration requirement, and the consequent clarification on duress, for verbal modifications to Irish construction contracts
No full textThis thesis studies the consideration requirement for verbally-made contract
variations in Irish construction contracts, and proposes how this specific
circumstance can be best served by the law of contract. Construction is a
complex and uncertain industry; and an effective construction industry is
important and necessary for Ireland: it is a key driver of a functioning, developed
economy, and it requires a sustainable level of activity to maintain infrastructure
and develop new assets, consistent with what is expected of a developed nation.
Yet it often involves projects of financial and technical vastness; and operates in
an environment of risk, contractual risk allocation and residual uncertainty. The
law of contract is essentially applied in the same way by the courts, regardless of
whether the transaction is one of a major or minor nature. This contract paradigm
is a straightforward and rigid system, which is designed for simple contracts
involving equally-met parties, conducting non-complex transactions.
Construction is an industry which operates within this contract paradigm, even
though construction contracts are rarely as straightforward as those envisaged by
the contract paradigm. When agreeing a construction contract, parties attempt to
foresee all possible risks which could occur in the transaction, even though, in the
case of construction, it is often impossible to foresee all the risks. This thesis
studies the nature of the construction industry in general, and the Irish industry in
particular; it examines the characteristics of risk and risk allocation in
construction contracts, and then, by analysing the consideration requirement for
contract modifications, as well as the doctrines of promissory estoppel and
duress, looks at the alternatives to contract law requirements for the presence of
consideration in situations of verbal modifications to existing, properly-formed
construction contracts, where fresh consideration is absent. The thesis
recommends that, in order to simplify the process which exists in the Irish
construction industry, the consideration requirement be removed solely from this
specific circumstance, for the categories of construction activity covered by the
Construction Contracts Act 2013, and provided that duress is not present
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
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
An examination of how the methods employed by the Criminal Assets Bureau move Ireland in a new direction of crime control
No full textThis work examines how the concept and operational outcomes achieved by the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) reflect a new model of crime control that has emerged and developed to a stage where it is a significant contributor to crime control in Ireland. The approach developed and implemented by CAB is not designed to produce a socially engineered solution to make the deviant better by correctionalist intervention and normalisation. Rather it is an actuarial approach to criminal wrongdoing, one which employs civil, administrative and regulatory mechanisms. The instruments employed by CAB attempt to permanently alter the criminogenic networks that exist around the individual and thereby neutralise the criminal threat. Following a doctrinal and socio-legal methodology this thesis examines the framework and conceptual underpinnings that lead to the establishment of CAB dealing with the long and short causal factors that lead to a refocusing of the overall approach to criminality. It adopts an operation analysis approach to consider the tri-part elements of forfeiture, revenue powers and social welfare powers that form the central tenants of the civil approach that CAB adopts. In highlighting the operational approach and actual outcomes achieved by CAB it provides a case study of a modern criminological tool of disruption and discontinuity that operates against the financial base of crime as opposed to the criminal actor
“The Whiplash Capital of the World”:Genealogy of a Compensation Myth
No full textOne of the most persistent refrains in the current debate about the so-called compensation culture is that the UK has become ‘the whiplash capital of Europe’ – or even, on some accounts, ‘the world’. This article explores the origins of the claim and subjects it to critical analysis and provides some wider reflections on the rhetoric employed, at the same time as placing the claim in the context of the wider debate and the UK’s ongoing civil justice reforms
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