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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
Meat intake in the Swiss adult population: association with anthropometric measurements. Data from the first national nutrition survey, menuCH.
No full textBackground: Elevated meat intake has been associated with an increased risk of chronic diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome. Consuming less meat in a daily routine is associated with a decrease in total mortality and can help preventing these chronic diseases. Over the past decade, more people tend to reduce their meat consumption or even to adopt a vegetarian or a vegan diet. This decision is motivated by looking for a better health, for ethical reasons and trying to reach a more sustainable diet. Results from menuCH, the first national nutrition survey, have shown Swiss adults are eating more meat than recommended by the Swiss food-based dietary guidelines (FBDG).
Setting: menuCH is a nutrition survey conducted in Switzerland from January 2014 until February 2015. This cross- sectional population-based study included 2086 adults aged 18 to 75 years from the three main linguistic regions of Switzerland (German, French and Italian). For these analyses, 2013 had non-missing values for the variables of interest who represent a total of 4’529’417 inhabitants.
Methods: Each participant underwent two 24-h dietary recalls (24HDR) conducted by trained dieticians in several Swiss centers. Participants completed a questionnaire on eating behaviors, physical activity level (PAL), anthropometric and socio-demographic characteristics. Weighted means, medians, percentiles 25, 75 were generated for total (TM), fresh (FM) and processed meat (PM) intakes overall and by selected strata. A category of non-meat consumers during the two recalls was created. Stratified analyses were done by sex, age groups, linguistic regions and socio-economic level. Weighted multiple linear regression was used to explore factors associated with total, fresh and processed meat intake. Weighted multiple logistic regression was used to explore factors associated with meat consumption.
Results: 1,798 participants out of 2,013 (89,3%) consumed meat products during the two 24HDR; 1,374 (68,3%) consumed fresh meat and 1,439 (71,5%) consumed processed meat. The mean (±SD) intakes of TM, FM and PM were 121 (± 84,3) g, 94,2 (± 69,8) g and 60,2 (± 55,7) g, respectively. The median intakes of TM, FM and PM were 102,4 g, 75 g and 48,2 g. Men consumed more meat than women (56,6g more of TM, 36g more of FM and 23,2g more PM). Italian- speaking and French-speaking participants consumed more TM and FM than German-speaking participants. Overweight and obese people had similar intakes of TM, FM and PM. In each meat categories, they had higher intakes compared to normal and underweight people who had similar results of TM and FM intakes. People with a substantially increased value of WC were more likely to consume more TM, FM and PM. Those with an increased value of WHR were more likely to consume more TM. For each category of meat and variables, results were even more significant looking at the P90 category. In multiple weighted linear regression analyses, many factors were statistically significantly associated with TM, FM or PM intakes. Older people consumed less TM and FM than the youngest ones. Women consumed less TM and PM than men. People from French or Italian-speaking regions consumed more TM and FM than the ones coming from German-speaking regions. People from French-speaking region consumed less PM than German-speaking population. Non-Swiss citizens had less intake of TM than Swiss citizens. People who had a tertiary education consumed less TM than those who had a primary education. Overweight and obese participants were more likely to consume TM, FM and PM than underweight participants. Households with incomes between 6000-8999CHF per month had less PM intake than households with incomes below 5999 CHF per month. In multiple weighted logistical regression analyses, TM consumption was associated with sex (lower in women than in men), BMI categories (higher in overweight and obese participants than in underweight participants), household income (higher for high income than for low income) and PA level (lower for moderate PA for low PA), but not with age, language region, education level, household status, smoking status or being currently on a diet.
Conclusion: These analyses help better understanding the characteristics of Swiss adults who consume a lot of meat and those who have a low-meat consumption. As expected, women consume less meat than men and a high consumption of meat is associated with higher values of BMI, waist circumference and waist-to-hip-ratio. These descriptions of meat consumption among Swiss adults can help formulate dietary recommendations aiming at reducing meat intake overall, and processed meat intake in particular, in Switzerland
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