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    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    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

    Variations on the Author

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    “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

    Domain Adaptation and Domain Generalization with Representation Learning

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    Machine learning has achieved great successes in the area of computer vision, especially in object recognition or classification. One of the core factors of the successes is the availability of massive labeled image or video data for training, collected manually by human. Labeling source training data, however, can be expensive and time consuming. Furthermore, a large amount of labeled source data may not always guarantee traditional machine learning techniques to generalize well; there is a potential bias or mismatch in the data, i.e., the training data do not represent the target environment. To mitigate the above dataset bias/mismatch, one can consider domain adaptation: utilizing labeled training data and unlabeled target data to develop a well-performing classifier on the target environment. In some cases, however, the unlabeled target data are nonexistent, but multiple labeled sources of data exist. Such situations can be addressed by domain generalization: using multiple source training sets to produce a classifier that generalizes on the unseen target domain. Although several domain adaptation and generalization approaches have been proposed, the domain mismatch in object recognition remains a challenging, open problem – the model performance has yet reached to a satisfactory level in real world applications. The overall goal of this thesis is to progress towards solving dataset bias in visual object recognition through representation learning in the context of domain adaptation and domain generalization. Representation learning is concerned with finding proper data representations or features via learning rather than via engineering by human experts. This thesis proposes several representation learning solutions based on deep learning and kernel methods. This thesis introduces a robust-to-noise deep neural network for handwritten digit classification trained on “clean” images only, which we name Deep Hybrid Network (DHN). DHNs are based on a particular combination of sparse autoencoders and restricted Boltzmann machines. The results show that DHN performs better than the standard deep neural network in recognizing digits with Gaussian and impulse noise, block and border occlusions. This thesis proposes the Domain Adaptive Neural Network (DaNN), a neural network based domain adaptation algorithm that minimizes the classification error and the domain discrepancy between the source and target data representations. The experiments show the competitiveness of DaNN against several state-of-the-art methods on a benchmark object dataset. This thesis develops the Multi-task Autoencoder (MTAE), a domain generalization algorithm based on autoencoders trained via multi-task learning. MTAE learns to transform the original image into its analogs in multiple related domains simultaneously. The results show that the MTAE’s representations provide better classification performance than some alternative autoencoder-based models as well as the current state-of-the-art domain generalization algorithms. This thesis proposes a fast kernel-based representation learning algorithm for both domain adaptation and domain generalization, Scatter Component Analysis (SCA). SCA finds a data representation that trades between maximizing the separability of classes, minimizing the mismatch between domains, and maximizing the separability of the whole data points. The results show that SCA performs much faster than some competitive algorithms, while providing state-of-the-art accuracy in both domain adaptation and domain generalization. Finally, this thesis presents the Deep Reconstruction-Classification Network (DRCN), a deep convolutional network for domain adaptation. DRCN learns to classify labeled source data and also to reconstruct unlabeled target data via a shared encoding representation. The results show that DRCN provides competitive or better performance than the prior state-of-the-art model on several cross-domain object datasets

    Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis

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    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

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    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

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    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    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

    Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902

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    In Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.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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