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Friendships as strong as bamboo
No full textThe Yao Yao Social Group was set up three years ago to tackle the social isolation of people from London's Chinese community who have mental health problems. The group provides a safe environment where people can feel comfortable and speak their mother tongue, and participate in a wide range of activities and outings. Jason Chan, Wilson Wong, Man Lee and Dien Luu describe the group and what it means to them.</jats:p
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
DS2_6 Heritage to Helios: Six Projects, Hannah Ismail, Jason (Chan) Lai, Amber Collinson, Joe Robinson, Yuen-Wah Williams, Will Pope
No full textThe videos shown here are of six final projects from students of design studio 2_6, which is run by Victoria Watson and Kirti Durelle. We run the studio as a mode of architectural design research and try to structure the year so that students use their projects as a vehicle for exploring and expressing their own thoughts and ideas about the world in which they live.
This year we ran our studio program on the broad theme of Heritage to Helios.
Just like last year, the Studio worked with the International Institute of Cosmism (IIC), who now planned to develop a historic dockyard site on the banks of the River Thames, in Deptford, currently known as Convoy’s Wharf.
The IIC was especially interested in the architectural implications of Nikolai Federov’s Great Electric Boat, which he wrote about in his short essay Astronomy and Architecture.
The students worked on the Convoy’s Wharf site all year, it is a vast brown-field with one protected historic structure.
Between 2010 & 2014 Museum of London Archeology were commissioned to survey the site; and the students used MOLA’s drawings to help inspire and organise their work.
In semester one the students were asked to design A Cosmist Workspace and Visitor Centre (CWVC)
They were asked to work on MOLA’s Area 4 and were tasked with the design of a hybrid enclosed/semi-enclosed building, whose purpose was to announce and publicise the Cosmist presence on the Deptford site.
The new building was to provide a viewing deck for visitors to look down at the archeological remains; and a platform for gazing up into the sky.
In addition, the building had be comfortable for the Cosmists to work in; and we suggested it should include some laboratory/studio-space, a meeting room, a small lecture room, restrooms and a canteen.
For our field trip we went to the Big Science project called ITER, we stayed in Marseille.
ITER is a 35 nation collaborative project, tasked with building the world’s largest tokamak, a magnetic containment and plasma fusion device. The ITER tokamak is designed to prove the feasibility of fusion as a commercially viable source of carbon free energy.
As you can see from the work shown here, we were all deeply infected by our trip to ITER.
In semester two the students were asked to design a Factory and Fun Palace for the Great Electric Boat (F-EB)
Students were asked to approach their F-GEB project under three categories: site, program and technology.
In terms of Site: they were asked to incorporate their semester one building as a site parameter. They had to take notice of the protected historic structure, the Olympia Building. And of course they had to consider the riverside setting, the Deptford hinterland and the below ground ruins.
In terms of Program: they were asked to devise a narrative that combined science, technology and art, in a single complex. To help them to do this they were advised to revisit Federov’s Astronomy and Architecture and to formulate their own interpretation of the Great Electric Boat. And they were shown how, in his essay, Federov presents the Great Electric Boat as an aspiration, or a condition, not a thing.
In terms of Technology: Students were asked to consider three different ways in which technology is at work in their project:
first, as a form of knowledge under investigation by the Cosmists,
second, as a factor in the construction processes necessary to make the proposed new building,
third, as medium of representation and communication, used directly by themselves in the design process
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
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