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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
Diagnostic studies in children with acute infections : Microbes and biomarkers
Full text linkWe did four distinct clinical studies, mainly in the emergency department (ED) setting, to pragmatically evaluate the accuracy, feasibility and characteristics of different diagnostic tests in children with acute infections, and documented the etiology of febrile pharyngitis.
The results of this study show that point-of-care tests (POCTs) for white blood cell count and C-reactive protein (CRP) were feasible and relatively accurate in comparison with standard laboratory methods. The occurrence of discrepant plasma procalcitonin (PCT) and CRP levels in acutely ill children was 29%. We confirmed an earlier finding that PCT rises more rapidly than CRP in bacteremic patients and made a new observation that PCT increases also in patients with acute diabetic ketoacidosis. In addition, a multianalyte antigen detection POCT for respiratory viruses was proven user-friendly and specific. It gave an overall sensitivity of 83% for influenza viruses, 89% for respiratory syncytial virus but only 25% for adenovirus in comparison with the polymerase chain reaction method. Finally, we found that febrile pharyngitis was caused solely by viruses in 59%, by viruses together with group A streptococcus (GAS) in 13% and solely by GAS in 10% of the children. Blood myxovirus resistance protein A (MxA) levels were increased in most of the pharyngitis patients with virus detection further supporting the causative role of viruses.
These results highlight the usefulness of POCTs in ED setting. In addition, we completed the etiological picture of febrile pharyngitis.Tutkimuksia lasten äkillisten infektioiden diagnostiikasta: mikrobeja ja merkkiaineita
Kuumeisen lapsen lääketieteellinen arvio perustuu ensisijaisesti potilaan kliiniseen tutkimiseen. Arvion apuna voidaan tarvittaessa käyttää laboratoriotutkimuksia. Teimme neljä erillistä kliinistä tutkimusta selvittääksemme tiettyjen laboratoriokokeiden käytettävyyttä, tarkkuutta ja ominaisuuksia äkillisiä infektioita sairastavien lapsien diagnostiikassa. Tutkimukset tehtiin käytännönläheisesti ja ne toteutettiin pääsääntöisesti päivystyspoliklinikalla. Lisäksi selvitimme kuumeisen nielutulehduksen aiheuttajat.
Tutkimuksen tulokset osoittavat, että valkosolujen ja C-reaktiivisen proteiinin (CRP) nopeat vieritestit olivat käytettävyydeltään hyviä ja suhteellisen tarkkoja laboratorion vakiomenetelmiin verrattuna. Totesimme myös, että 29 %:lla äkillisesti sairastuneista lapsista prokalsitoniinin (PCT) ja CRP:n pitoisuudet plasmassa ovat keskenään ristiriidassa. Vahvistimme samalla aiemmat havainnot siitä, että PCT-pitoisuus suurenee CRP:tä nopeammin baktereemisilla potilailla. Teimme uuden havainnon PCT:n noususta akuuttia ketoasidoosia sairastavilla lapsilla. Antigeenin osoitukseen perustuva monianalyyttinen hengitystievirusten pikatesti osoittautui käyttäjäystävälliseksi ja tarkaksi. Vertailussa nukleiinihapon osoitukseen perustuvaan menetelmään testin herkkyys influenssaviruksille oli 83 %, RS-virukselle 89 % mutta adenovirukselle vain 25 %. Nielutulehduksen aiheuttajaksi todettiin 59 %:lla lapsista virus, 13 %:lla virus ja A-ryhmän streptokokki (GAS) yhdessä ja 10 %:lla GAS yksinään. Veren myxovirus resistance protein A (MxA) -pitoisuus oli suurentunut suurimmalla osalla viruspositiivisista potilaista tukien ajatusta viruksesta kyseisen taudin aiheuttajana.
Tuloksemme korostavat vieritestien käyttökelpoisuutta päivystyspoliklinikalla. Lisäksi täydensimme tietämystä lasten nielutulehduksen etiologiasta.Siirretty Doriastaei tietoa saavutettavuudest
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
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
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