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Ronnie Jones, Terry Schrimscher, Janice Boyd, and Mike Adcock, Sophomore Class Favorites 1
No full textRonnie Jones, Terry Schrimscher, Janice Boyd, and Mike Adcock were students at Jacksonville State College (now Jacksonville State University) in the 1960s. In 1965 they were named as Sophomore Class Favorites.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib-ac-histimg/13954/thumbnail.jp
The North Yuba Survey: A Prehistoric Archaeological Study of 14,000 Acres in the Northern Sierra Nevada
No full textPurpose of the Study:\ud
A number of major problems exist in our knowledge of the\ud
prehistory of the northern Sierra Nevada. Many of these\ud
are related to the concept of boundaries between human\ud
groups and how they are represented archaeologically.\ud
The purpose of this study is to summarize these problems\ud
through discussion of their origins and relation to\ud
different schools of archaeological thought, and to\ud
apply data obtained from a survey of 14,000 acres in the\ud
northern Sierra to the problems.\ud
Procedure:\ud
The major prehistoric issues of the northern Sierra\ud
Nevada were summarized through a history of\ud
archaeological research conducted in northern California\ud
and the Great Basin. A number of cultural chronologies\ud
were seen as potentially applicable to the survey area,\ud
however, there are no precise methods for determining\ud
the boundaries of the cultures which make up the\ud
chronological sequences and no agreement on what the\ud
boundaries represent. Attempts were made to assign\ud
sites and artifacts located during the survey to\ud
cultures defined in the various chronologies and to\ud
determine whether different settlement patterns could be\ud
associated with the cultures. Sites were examined in\ud
relation to deer migration corridors and plant\ud
communities to understand relationships between sites\ud
and available resources and to determine whether\ud
boundaries were suggested. Lithic material\ud
distributions were also examined for their potential as\ud
boundary indicators.\ud
Findings:\ud
Because of the lack of chronological clarity, sites\ud
could not be definitively assigned to cultures. Deer\ud
migration data refuted previous hypotheses on boundary\ud
locations (i.e., that major river canyons served as\ud
tribelet boundaries). Lithic materials suggested some\ud
boundaries, particularly between the Windmiller Complex\ud
in the Central Valley and the Martis Complex in the\ud
Sierra.\ud
Conclusions:\ud
In the northern Sierra, projectile point forms seem to\ud
transcend cultural boundaries, although chronological\ud
confusion, lack of standardized nomenclature, and\ud
disagreement on what constitutes cultural boundaries,\ud
make this difficult to discern. Boundaries must be\ud
established through coincidence of several forms of\ud
archaeological evidence
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No full textGoing 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
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