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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
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
High Precision Dual Frequency Timing of Millisecond Pulsars
Full text linkThe science of precision millisecond pulsar timing can yield the most precise astrometric measurements ever made. This potential can only be realized through an extraordinary amount of investment in the experimental apparatus, the effort of many observers, and the close attention to details required to avoid the many pitfalls along the way. This thesis describes the work and results from a precision timing project aimed at monitoring the brightest millisecond pulsar, PSR J0437-4715. This pulsar is a very suitable target for such a study because of its small period (5.75 ms), low DM (2.69 pc cm⁻³), and high flux density (~ 90 mJy at 1.4 GHz). The initial work for this thesis involved completion and installation of the Fast Pulsar Timing Machine (FPTM) at Parkes observatory, Australia. With a bandwidth of 128 MHz and time resolution of 4 µs, this machine made a quantum jump in the time of arrival precision for PSR J0437-4715. The precision improved from ~ 2 µs to ~ 0.2 µs. In order to further enhance the signal-to-noise ratio achievable with this pulsar and probe the limits of precision pulsar timing, we have subsequently improved the FPTM significantly by doubling its bandwidth, so that it can record the pulsar radio emission over a 256 MHz bandwidth. This required us to double the IF processing hardware in the FPTM and implement numerous software modifications to control the observing apparatus, interface the FPTM with the observatory control computers, as well as process the data to produce final times of arrival.
Integration of just a few minutes with the 64 m Parkes radio telescope yield times of arrival for PSR J0437-4715 with a precision of 100 nanoseconds. The longer term residuals (3 years) show root-mean-square deviations of 500 nanoseconds. This excessively large scatter in the residuals has been traced to inaccurate polarization calibration, and a systematic quadratic trend of ~ 5 µs in the times of arrival as a function of baseband frequency. The latter phenomenon has been simulated in software and shown to arise from the large dynamic range in the baseband spectrum. Despite the systematic errors, our measurement of the pulsar's astrometric and binary parameters match the best obtained so far with other millisecond pulsars. This has allowed us to measure the pulsar's parallax, and the secular change in the binary's projected semi-major axis due to the system's proper motion. The latter effect restricts the inclination angle of the binary, i < 43°. The parallax, along with the period derivative and orbital period derivative, enable us to constrain the distance of the pulsar, 162 < d < 205 pc. A stability analysis of the pulsar's time of arrival residuals demonstrates that it matches the long term stability of the best studied millisecond pulsars, PSRs B1937+21 and B1855+09, at least on the time scale of the data available so far, 3 years. The precision in the pulsar position now matches the amplitude of the modulation of position expected from the pulsar's binary motion. Detection of this effect will require reduction of the calibration and spectral shape errors, as well as further refinements in the timing software used. Along with radio interferometric observations of the pulsar and optical detection of the white-dwarf companion, the pulsar timing position will provide the best contraints for frame tie between the ecliptic and extragalactic reference frames.</p
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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