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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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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
Urban Earth. Possible applications of clay in urban housing constructions in Vienna
Get PDFLehm zählt zu den ältesten Baustoffen der Architekturgeschichte und diente auch im deutschsprachigen Raum lange als wichtiges Baumaterial. Historisch betrachtet kam Lehm vor allem in Zeiten der Not zum Einsatz, da er billig zu beschaffen war und vom Menschen aus eigener Kraft zu Gebäuden verarbeitet werden konnte. Mit der Industrialisierung und dem wachsenden Wohlstand geriet dieser uns lange vertraute Baustoff jedoch zunehmend in Vergessenheit – das Bauen mit Lehm beschränkt sich in Österreich heute vorrangig auf kleine Bauwerke vereinzelter Lehmliebhaber, während der mehrgeschossige Wohnbau sowie andere Großprojekte vorrangig aus energie- und ressourcen-intensiven Baustoffen realisiert werden. In Anbetracht der wachsenden Hitzeinseln in Städten, der Verknappung endlicher Ressourcen und des zunehmenden Problems steigender Abfallmassen im Bausektordarf dem Streben der Bauwirtschaft, immer mehr und immer günstiger zu bauen, zukünftig nicht mehr uneingeschränkt nachgegeben werden. Angesichts des wachsenden Zuzugs in Städte und des dort zusätzlich entstehenden Wohnbedarfs ist es notwendig, nachhaltigen Baustoffen wie Lehm insbesondere auch im städtischen Gefüge mehr Präsenz zu verleihen.Der Baustoff kämpft jedoch seit der Entwicklung von Produkten wie Stahlbeton mit seinem Image als Krisenbaustoff, der nicht die notwendigen Eigenschaften aufweist, moderne High-Tech Architektur zu schaffen. Diesem Vorurteil gilt es angesichts der wachsenden Klimakrise entgegenzuwirken. Die vorliegende Diplomarbeit soll daher einen Beitrag dazu leisten, das Potential von Lehm als Baustoff aufzuzeigen und ein Bewusstsein für seine Einsatzmöglichkeiten zu schaffen. Aufbauend auf der Entwicklung verschiedener Lehmbauteile für den urbanen Wohnungsbau erfolgt ein konkreter Vergleich dieser mit aktuell vorherrschenden Bauweisen am Beispiel der Wiener Wohnbauten. Durch die Gegenüberstellung der Bauteilaufbauten hinsichtlich ihrer bauphysikalischen, ökologischen und ökonomischen Qualitäten wird in dieser Diplomarbeit beurteilt, welche Rolle Lehmbaustoffe zukünftig im städtischen Wohnbau einnehmen können. Konkrete Berechnungen technischer und ökologischer Kennwerte erlauben dabei unter der Berücksichtigung wirtschaftlicher Aspekte greifbare Schlussfolgerungen über die Konkurrenzfähigkeit von Lehm gegenüber anderen Baustoffen. Diese sollen eine Argumentationsgrundlage bilden, dem Lehmbau wieder Raum im Bausektor zu geben.Clay is one of the oldest building materials in the history of architecture and was alsoused in German-speaking countries for a long time. Historically, clay was mainly used during crises, as it was cheaply obtainable and could be processed into buildings by people on their own.With industrialization and growing prosperity, however, this building material has increasingly been forgotten – nowadays, building with clay in Austria is quite rare and primarily restricted to small construction projects by very few clay lovers. Multi-storeyresidential buildings and other large-scale projects on the other hand are mostly made from highly energy- and resource-consuming building materials.Considering the growing heat islands in cities, the scarcity of finite resources and the increasing problem of waste volumes in the construction sector, the striving to build more and more and to build as cheaply as possible can no longer be balanced with sustainable architecture. Given the growing influx into cities and the additional need for housing, there is an urgent necessity to give sustainable building materials such as clay a greater presence in urban areas.However, since the development of products like reinforced concrete, clay has struggled with its image as a material of crisis that lacks the necessary qualities to create modern high-tech architecture. Considering climate change and its future threat to the world, this prejudice has to be counteracted urgently. The following diploma thesis is therefore intended to help demonstrate the potential of clay as a buildingmaterial and to raise awareness of its possible uses.To do so, various construction components made of clay are developed and contrasted to building elements currently used in Viennese residential buildings. By comparing the different types of construction methods with regard to their physical,ecological and economic qualities, this diploma thesis assesses the position that clay can take in future urban housing. Taking economic aspects into account, calculations of technical and ecological parameters allow tangible conclusions to be drawn about the competitiveness of clay against other building materials. These shall provide a basis for argumentation on why clay deserves to be acknowledged in the construction sector again
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