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The Crushing Bite of Tyrannosaurids
No full textJorn H. Hurum, Phillip J. Currie (2000): The Crushing Bite of Tyrannosaurids. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20 (3): 619-621, DOI: 10.1671/0272-4634(2000)020[0619:tcbot]2.0.co;2, URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/452413
An approach to scoring cursorial limb proportions in carnivorous dinosaurs and an attempt to account for allometry
No full textW. Scott Persons IV, Philip J. Currie (2016): An approach to scoring cursorial limb proportions in carnivorous dinosaurs and an attempt to account for allometry. Scientific Reports 6: 19828, DOI: 10.1038/srep1982
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
Leonard J. Currie: An Exhibition of His Photographs
No full textThis document includes the labels and panels of an exhibition about Currie's career that was displayed in the Virginia Tech Art and Architecture Library during the 2020-2021 academic year. The photos are from his slide collection.
Leonard J. Currie (1913-1996) was an architect, administrator, and educator. He studied architecture at Harvard with Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer during their first year of teaching together. In 1941 he participated in the reconstruction of the Maya ruins at Copán in Honduras and remained engaged with Latin America for the rest of his life. In 1951 he accepted the position as founding director of the Inter-American Housing Center (CINVA) in Bogotá, an Organization of American States program to alleviate a housing crisis for the poor in Latin America.
From 1956 to 1962, Currie served as head of the Virginia Tech architecture department in Blacksburg, Virginia. He built several houses in Blacksburg, including the award-winning Currie House for his own family. In 1962 he moved to Chicago to become founding dean of the University of Illinois at Chicago’s (UIC) new College of Architecture and Art. At the time, UIC was transitioning from a two-year campus on Navy Pier to a four-year university at the new Chicago Circle campus designed by SOM.
Currie retired from UIC in 1981. He returned to Blacksburg, where he set up a private architectural practice to design houses, churches, and business buildings. He served architectural needs of the poor through Habitat for Humanity and his pro-bono architecture clinic
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
FIGURE 1. A-C in The Crushing Bite of Tyrannosaurids
No full textFIGURE 1. A-C, Tarbosaurus bataar ZPAL MgD-I/4, the lower jaw in lateral view (A), the lower jaw in medial view (B), the splenial bone reconstructed after ZPAL MgD-I/5, in medial view with the prearticular, splenial and supradentary/coronoid removed (C). Abbreviations: A, articular; An, angular; C, coronoid; D, dentary; Pa, prearticular; S, splenial; Sa, surangular; Sd, supradentary.Published as part of Jorn H. Hurum & Phillip J. Currie, 2000, The Crushing Bite of Tyrannosaurids, pp. 619-621 in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20 (3) on page 620, DOI: 10.1671/0272-4634(2000)020[0619:tcbot]2.0.co;2, http://zenodo.org/record/373240
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
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