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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

    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

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    Anestesiavalvonnan vastaavan hoitajan työnkuvan kehittäminen Scrum-tuotekehitysprosessilla Oulun yliopistollisen sairaalan keskusleikkausosastolle

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    Tämän opinnäytetyön tarkoituksena oli kehittää tuotekehitysprosessin avulla anestesiavalvonnan vastaavan hoitajan työnkuva Oulun yliopistollisen sairaalan keskusleikkausosastolle. Työnkuvan kehittämisessä käytettiin menetelmänä Scrum-tuotekehitysprosessia. Kehittämisprosessiin keskeisesti osallistui toimeksiantajan organisaatiosta kuusi sairaanhoitajaa kehitystiimin jäseninä. Kehittämisprosessin lähtökohtina olivat tuleva muutos fyysisessä toimintaympäristössä sekä tarve selkeyttää heräämön ja anestesiavalvonnan vastaavan hoitajan työtehtäviä. Opinnäytetyö oli toimintatutkimus, joka toteutettiin tuotekehitysprosessilla. Scrum-tuotekehitysprosessi on menetelmä ja viitekehys monimutkaisten tuotteiden kehittämiseen. Kehitysprosessin aikana muodostui viisi kehitysjonoa ja kaksi tuotteen demoversiota ennen lopullisen anestesiavalvonnan vastaavan hoitajan työnkuvan hyväksymistä. Tuotekehitys käynnistyi alkutilanteen kartoituksella, joka tehtiin sitä varten kehitetyn lomakkeen avulla. Alkukartoituslomakkeista kerätyn tiedon avulla saatiin muodostettua ensimmäinen kehitysjono. Aineisto kerättiin kehitetyllä matriisilomakkeella kehitystiimin jäseniltä niin, että viikkopalaverien välisenä aikana kehitystiimin jäsenet itsenäisesti tekivät kehitystyötä ja viikkopalavereissa reflektoimalla kehitysjonosta saatiin muodostettua seuraava kehitysjono. Jokaisessa kehitysjonon vaiheessa tuotetta testattiin ja tuotteen hahmo alkoi valmistua. Scrumin jälkikatselmuksessa esiteltiin demoversio. Lopullinen tuote valmistui tuoteomistajan, heräämön apulaisosastonhoitajan ja opinnäytetyön tekijän viimeisteltyä sitä. Valmis tuote otettiin käyttöön toimeksiantajan organisaatiossa ja se liitetään osaksi toimintayksikön toimintakäsikirjaa. Tuotekehitysprosessissa saatiin tuotettua tietoa anestesiavalvonnan vastaavan hoitajan työnkuvaan, johon muodostui kuusi avaintehtäväaluetta: anestesiavalvonnan kliininen hoitotyö, hallinto, koordinointi, perehdytys, vastaavan hoitajan koulutus, perehdytys ja toiminnan kehittäminen sekä anestesiavalvonnan poikkeustilanne. Avaintehtäville kehittyi eri tehtäviä ja niille kehitettiin tehtävien sisältöjen kuvaukset. Jatkossa kehitystyötä anestesiavalvonnan hoitajan työnkuvaan toimeksiantaja tekee avaintehtävän vastaavan hoitajan koulutus, perehdytys ja toiminnan kehittämisen osalta, koska tätä aluetta ei sovitusti kehitetty tämän tuotekehitysprosessin aikana enempää, vaan jätettiin uuteen kehitysprosessiin.The purpose of this thesis was to develop a job description for the nurse in charge in the PACU of Oulu University Hospital. The job description used the development method of the Scrum development process. The development process centrally involved in the client organization, let alone buy six nurses from the developing team members. The starting point of the development process was the future change in the physical environment and the need to clarify daily jobs of the nurse in charge of the PACU. The study was action research which was carried out R & D process. Scrum development process is a method and framework for the development of complex products. During the development process produced five product backlog and two demo version before the final job description of the nurse in charge of the PACU was approval. Product development started in the initial assessment which was developed for the form of the survey of the starting point. From the form for the survey of the starting point the data collected using was formed first of the product backlog. The data was collected using matrix of the form and developed by development team members so that weekly scrum between the development team members independently made the development works. During the weekly scrum the data of the product backlog was reflecting and was formed for the next the product backlog. In each development phase the product was tested in the product backlog and the product’s character began to graduate. Scrum was introduced the demo version in the sprint review. The final product was completed the product owner and assistant head nurse of PACU and the author to finish it. The finished product was introduced for the client organization, and it is incorporated into the unit's operating manual. Product development process was produced theory of the nurse in charge of the PACU job description, which consisted of six key areas of interest: PACU clinical nursing, administration, coordination, orientation, nurse training, orientation and development of operations, as well as the PACU exception. Key tasks have evolved in different tasks, and those tasks were developed content descriptions. In the future, the development manager job description of the nurse in charge of PACU the client makes a key task of a responsible manager training, orientation and development of the work

    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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