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Melodic Continuation in Three Dimensions
No full textMentor: Andrew J. OxenhamOn hearing a sequence of pitches, listeners develop expectations for how that sequence will continue. Research on melodic continuation generally supposes two kinds of factors: the top-down influence of perceived tonality, and the bottom-up influence of melodic contour (relative size and direction of the intervals). For bottom-up, contour-based factors, there is converging evidence that melodies with good continuation tend to have small intervals between notes and narrow overall ranges. Since melodic contour can also be perceived in sequences of notes varying in brightness (an aspect of timbre or sound quality) or loudness instead of pitch, it is reasonable to suppose that the same contour-based expectations that apply to pitch sequences also apply to brightness and loudness sequences. The present study found that perceptive continuation ratings for brightness and loudness sequences generally conform to the same contour-based expectations as pitch sequences, though some differences between dimensions were found.
This is compatible with the hypothesis that perception of melodic contour is a general auditory phenomenon that is not unique to pitch. The ratings for brightness and loudness sequences were more similar to each other than to ratings for pitch sequences, and it is likely that the factors that set pitch apart from other auditory dimensions are closely related to perceived tonality.This research was supported by the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP).Graves, Jackson. (2012). Melodic Continuation in Three Dimensions. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/123132
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Portrait of banker and author Jackson Alpheus Graves, ca.1910-1920
No full textPhotographic portrait of banker and author Jackson Alpheus Graves (Jackson C.? Graves), ca.1910-1920. Viewed from the chest up. He is wearing a long polka-dot tie with tie-pin, light-colored shirt, and pin-stripe jacket. He has short white hair with a receding hairline. He has a short mustache. He is turned slightly to his left. He lived from 1852 to 1933.; Graves authored the book "My seventy years in California, 1857-1927"
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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