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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
Les protéines membranaires : perturbations de l'environnement et conséquences sur leur assemblage
No full textDans leurs membranes natives, les protéines membranaires peuvent former des assemblages multimériques impliqués dans un grande variété de processus biologiques, de la transduction du signal à la structuration d'organelles. Leur agrégation est influencée par relations qu'elles entretiennent avec la membrane. Au cours de cette thèse, j'étudie l'influence mutuelle des protéines membranaires et de leur environnement au moyen de simulations numériques. L'étude d'un un complexe peptide-détergent modèle a révélé la présence d'une compétition entre deux forces : la cohésion entre les détergents maintenant la structure micellaire, et les interactions adhésives à certaines surfaces peptidiques. L'équilibre entre ces forces conduit à une frustration du système et à l'exposition de surfaces hydrophobes au solvant, expliquant les phénomènes d'agrégations observées expérimentalement. Ces résultats montrent l'importance de la topologie des surfaces du peptide dans l'organisation du complexe. Pour caractériser l'influence de la composante protéique sur les amphiphiles, un estimateur d'entropie configurationelle des chaînes grasses a été développé. Les mesures réalisées sur 15 systèmes membranaires gros grains montrent que la capacité des protéines à apparier l'épaisseur hydrophobe membranaire à la leur est le facteur principal responsable des variations entropiques. Cependant, au delà des simples contributions de l'épaisseur hydrophobe protéique, la diversité des comportements observés dans la première couche de lipides au contact avec la protéine montre bien un rôle de la topologie dans la modulation des interactions. Les variations observées à plus longues distances semblent alors être un facteur clé dans les interactions entre protéines membranaires. Dans le cadre d'une collaboration, la description d'un membranaire par microscopie à force atomique haute vitesse a permis de caractériser le paysage énergétique des interactions entre protéines membranaires. En combinant ces résultats avec ceux obtenus par simulations de dynamiques moléculaires, des chemins basses énergies on pu être identifiés et soulignent de nouveau l'importance des lipides dans l'organisation et la dynamique des agrégats protéiques. L'ensemble de ces données permettent alors de mieux comprendre l'influence mutuelle entre les protéines et les amphiphiles constituant leur environnement et les phénomènes d'agrégation protéiques dans un contexte biologique et expérimental.In their native membranes, membrane proteins can form multimeric assemblies implicated in a wide range of biological processes, from signal transduction to organelle structure. Their aggregation is influenced by the relations they have with the membrane. Through this thesis, I study the mutual influence between membrane proteins and their environment using numerical simulations. The study of a model protein detergent complex has revealed the presence of two competing forces : cohesion between detergents maintaining the micellar structure, and adhesive interactions to certain peptide surfaces. The balance between these forces leads to a certain frustration of the system, and to the exposure of hydrophobic surfaces to the solvent, explaining phenomena observed experimentally. These results show the importance of peptide surface topology on the organization of the complex. To characterize the influence of the protein component on amphiphiles, a configuartional entropy estimator has been developed. Measures realized on 15 coarse grained membrane systems show that the protein ability to match the membrane hydrophobic thickness to its own is the main factor responsible for entropic variations. However, beyond the simple contributions of protein hydrophobic width, the variety of behaviors in the first shell of lipids show a role of proteins in interaction modulation. Variations observed at longer ranges then seem to be a key factor in the interactions between membrane proteins. In the context of a collaboration, the description of a membrane plane by high speed atomic force microscopy allowed to characterize the energetic landscape of interactions between membrane proteins. By combining these results with those obtained by coarse grained molecular dynamics simulations, low energy paths have been identified and underly the importance of lipids in the organization and dynamics of proteins aggregates. All these data allow to further understand the mutual influence between proteins and amphiphiles constituting their environment and the aggregations phenomena in a biological and experimental context
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
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