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Supplemental Material - Bioavailability of Orally Administered Drugs in Critically Ill Patients
No full textSupplementary Material for Bioavailability of Orally Administered Drugs in Critically Ill Patients by Johanna Forsberg, Emma Bedard, and Sherif H. Mahmoud in Journal of Pharmacy Practice.</p
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
A Deduced Method for Assessing Safety and Security Perception: Case Study of Biblioteca Degli Alberi Park in Milan, Italy
No full textUrban greening initiatives have taken many innovative forms over time, from large urban parks planning and preservation to ecosystem-based approaches such as Nature-based Solutions (NBS). Even though implementing NBS and vegetation are accompanied mainly by positive impacts, a considerable body of scientific evidence demonstrates the negative consequences of urban green areas on the subject of reducing safety and safety perception in terms of impacts on visibility and fear of crime. Considering vegetation as a critical element of the urban landscape, identifying the safety perception while implementing greenery interventions requires a deep study of their characteristics about space functionality.
This chapter aims to implement a methodology for assessing the safety and security perception of urban green spaces. The methodology is based on safety and security principles and indicators selected from an extensive literature review of scientific research and design guidelines for safer cities and relying in particular on the concept of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED). Assembling data regarding the case study’s safety perception is conducted through a survey-based approach and an online questionnaire. Case-study application for testing the methodology was the Biblioteca degli Alberi di Milano (BAM) park in Milan, Italy
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
Nature-Based Solutions for Resilient and Thriving Cities: Opportunities and Challenges for Planning Future Cities
No full textThis chapter explains the importance for nature-based solutions as resilience
infrastructure of cities. It sets the scene for the challenges and opportunities
presented by a city-wide uptake and implementation of nature-based solutions as
integrative and systemic solutions to planning for urban resilience and sustainability.
We present not only the origins and the reasons for preferring nature-based solutions
over conventional grey infrastructure for dealing with climate change pressures
but also how different planning aspects of nature-based solutions need to be reconsidered,
reimagined and thereafter, transformed. In conclusion, an outlook towards
future cities is given on revolutionizing urban planning practice through naturebased
solutions
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