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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

    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

    Computer simulation of titration behavior in proteins

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    The pH dependent properties of proteins can be successfully modeled using continuum electrostatic methods provided that a sufficiently detailed and accurate model of the protein system is used. In this work, the effects of conformational changes on calculated pK\rm\sb{a} values in peptide and protein systems are investigated, and it is found that an ensemble of structures may be the best representation of a protein to use for the calculation of pH-dependent properties. Studies of the effects of inclusion of explicit water molecules in the continuum electrostatic model show that this modification may improve results when an optimal number of water molecules is used. A modification to the continuum electrostatics-based multiple site titration theory based on solvent accessibility is proposed, and it is shown that this model results in improved agreement of calculated pK\rm\sb{a} values with experiment when a low protein interior dielectric constant is used. The techniques developed are applied to two large protein systems. A trio of antibody/lysozyme complexes which differ minimally in epitope and paratope structure, but have widely varying association constants, are studied. In addition to electrostatic techniques, results of contact mapping and molecular surface area and volume calculations aid in the understanding of the differing properties of these systems. Several modeled mutant structures of each antibody and lysozyme are also examined. Each of these is predicted to associate less strongly with its counterpart than in the wild type. The photosynthetic reaction center of Rb. sphaeroides is studied, with some success in reproducing its known pH-dependent proton uptake. Mutants in which two critical residues in the secondary quinone binding site of the reaction center are altered are shown to be proton uptake impaired, with respect to the wild type.Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:34:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 9712282.pdf: 11673538 bytes, checksum: dd588369531cfcc16a1cce9fd25875cb (MD5) Previous issue date: 1996Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding ([email protected]) on 2011-05-07T14:56:28Z Item is restricted indefinitely.Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:26:24-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permissionETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permissionU of I Onl

    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

    Developing Bioinformatic Computer Skill

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