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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
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
Single-cell analysis of bacterial extracellular filament regulation and assembly
Get PDFIm Laufe der Evolution haben Bakterienarten äußerst vielfältige und ausgeklügelte extrazelluläre Strukturen entwickelt, die es ihnen ermöglichen, Substrate in ihre Umgebung abzugeben oder Wirtszellen während einer Invasion anzugreifen. Diese Sekretionssysteme sind an vielen bakteriellen Mechanismen wie Biofilmbildung, Zellmotilität, Virulenz oder Gentransfer und Verbreitung von Antibiotikaresistenzen beteiligt. Das Verständnis des Aufbaus und der Regulierung dieser Strukturen ist angesichts der zunehmenden Entwicklung multiresistenter Bakterien von entscheidender Bedeutung. Darüber hinaus geht der Aufbau solcher Strukturen unweigerlich auf Kosten wertvoller zellulärer Energieressourcen, was einen spannenden Parameter darstellt, um zu untersuchen, wie Bakterien den optimalen Mechanismus zum Ausgleich zwischen zellulären Mechanismen und Energieverbrauch wählen. Diese Arbeit konzentriert sich auf den Aufbau und die Regulierung bakterieller extrazellulärer Filamente, insbesondere des flagellaren Typ-III-Sekretionssystems (T3SS).
Im ersten Kapitel werden Defekte in der Zellmorphologie aufgezeigt, die durch die Deletion des FlhE-Proteins während des Zusammenbaus der Flagellen verursacht werden, was die Bedeutung der Regulierung des Membranpotentials verdeutlicht. Das zweite Kapitel zeigt, dass der Assemblierungsmechanismus der Flagellen-Filamente, welcher dem Injektions-Diffusions-Modell entspricht, im Vergleich zu anderen Sekretionssystemen schneller ist und für die Energieerhaltung optimiert ist. Das dritte Kapitel untersucht die Rolle des Pilus beim Plasmid-Transfer, der mit einem Typ-IV-Sekretionssystem (T4SS) assoziiert ist, und liefert zusätzliche Hinweise darauf, dass der Pilus als Kanal für den Plasmid-DNA-Transfer dienen kann. Im letzten Kapitel wird ein neuer Biosensor zur Messung des Gehalts an bis-(3'-5')-zyklischem Diguanosinmonophosphat (c-di-GMP) entwickelt, einem entscheidenden Molekül in bakteriellen Mechanismen, die Zellmotilität und Biofilmbildung miteinander verbinden.
Insgesamt bietet diese Arbeit Einblicke in die Regulation des flagellaren T3SS und des T4SS-Pilus, ein neues Werkzeug zur Untersuchung von c-di-GMP und Einblicke, wie Bakterien entscheidende Überlebensparameter und die Optimierung eines energiesparenden Aufbaus abwägen.Through evolution, bacterial species have developed highly diverse and sophisticated extracellular structures enabling them to secrete substrates in their environment or to target host cells during invasion. Those secretion systems are involved in many bacterial mechanisms such as biofilm formation, cell motility, virulence or gene transfer and antibiotic resistance dissemination. Understanding the assembly and regulation of these structures is crucial due to the increasing development of multi-drug resistant bacteria. Moreover, the assembly of such structures inevitably comes at the cost of valuable cellular energy resources, representing an exciting parameter to study how bacteria selected the optimal mechanism to balance cellular mechanisms and energy consumption. This thesis focuses on the assembly and regulation of bacterial extracellular filaments, notably the flagellar type III secretion system (T3SS) flagellum .
The first chapter reveals cell morphology defects caused by the deletion of the FlhE protein during flagellum assembly, highlighting the importance of membrane potential regulation . Chapter two illustrates that the flagellar filament assembly mechanism, following the injection-diffusion model, is faster compared to other secretion systems and optimized for energy conservation. The third chapter investigates the role of the pilus in plasmid transfer, associated with a type IV secretion system (T4SS), and gives additional evidence that the pilus may also act as a channel for plasmid DNA transfer. The final chapter develops a new biosensor for measuring bis-(3’-5’)-cyclic diguanosine monophosphate (c-di-GMP) levels, a crucial molecule in bacterial mechanisms linking cell motility and biofilm formation.
Overall, this thesis provides insights into the regulation of the flagellar T3SS and the T4SS pilus, a new tool to study c-di-GMP, and how bacteria balance crucial survival parameters and energy-conserving assembly optimization
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
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Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn 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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