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Mythologizing the Vietnam War - Introduction
Full text linkThe Vietnam War is evolving from contemporary memory into history. Fifty years on, it still serves as a benchmark in the history of war reporting and in the representation of conflict in popular culture and historical memory. However, as contemporary culture tries to come to terms with the events and their political, psychological and cultural implications, the 'real' Vietnam War has been appropriated and changed into a set of mythologies which implicate American and Vietnamese national identities specifically, and ideas of modern conflict more broadly, particularly in shaping the mediation of the twenty-first century 'War on Terror'. This collection of interdisciplinary critical essays explores the cultural legacies of the US involvement in South East Asia, considering this process of 'mythologising' through the lenses of visual media and tracing the war's evolution from contemporary reportage to subsequent interpretation and consumption. It reassesses the role of visual media in covering and remembering the war, its memorialisation, mediation and memory
My Transformative Summer of Running: Replication of Four Studies Relating to Running Outside of a Laboratory Setting
No full textThe objective of this project is to ascertain whether a person could improve their running performance by replicating a set of four scientific studies on running back-to-
back over a six-week period outside of a laboratory setting. The studies in question deal with the effects of pre-workout caffeine consumption, pre-workout beetroot consumption, sprint interval training, and Pilates training. Additionally, various challenges that come with reproducing these studies outside of a laboratory setting, personal fitness triumphs and complications, and reflections on this journey are recorded daily in a colloquial register throughout the process. Varying degrees of success are achieved with each trial, and upon completion of the four trials, the author reflects upon significant personal and fitness growth that she has accomplished through this endeavor
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
Resurrecting Tyrannosaurus rex
No full textAfter the first successful extraction of ancient DNA from a fossilized Quagga in
1984, the subsequent development of PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) technology
opened up a plethora of possibilities in the field of molecular paleontology. Supplied with
fragmented ancient genomes, some scientists acted as if the days of resurrecting
dinosaurs were a few technical difficulties away. Theories surfaced on the possible
applications of ancient DNA technology, and some, such as creating tactical dinosaurs for
the U.S. military, were outrageous. A less ridiculous idea surfaced in the form of Michael
Crichton’s Jurassic Park, published in 1990. Coupled with Steven Spielberg’s 1993
feature film adaption, the Jurassic Park series created a world in which geneticallyengineered
dinosaurs roamed once again as theme park attractions on a billionaire’s
private island, and explored the possible outcomes of a “Jurassic Park” experiment.
Jurassic Park ignited scientific debate over the technological feasibility, environmental
impact, and ethical questions of a “Jurassic Park” experiment. This thesis continues that
conversation by asking, could resurrecting a dinosaur be a productive environmental
enterprise, other than a mere display of power over Nature? Focusing on Tyrannosaurus
rex, this thesis combines a brief survey the current state of dinosaur genetic research, with
analyses of rewilding with large predators, to discuss whether or not scientists should
ever attempt to re-create a T. rex in the future
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
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