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    Observatoripark in Uppsala : identification of cultural-historical green values

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    Parker kan upplevas som självklara beståndsdelar i dagens samhälle, men det finns skillnader mellan olika parker. Vissa parker är mer betydelsefulla ur en kulturhistorisk synpunkt och kan därmed bli byggnadsminnesförklarade. Dessa parker kan bland annat förmedla kunskap om historiska epoker och människan är i behov av dessa berättelser för att tolka sin förflutna. Inom Uppsala kommun finns det 42 parker varav 27 tas upp i en sammanställning som anses vara intressanta ur ett kulturhistoriskt perspektiv. Observatorieparken däremot tas inte upp trots att parken är byggnadsminnesförklarad. Tillsynsansvaret för Observatorieparken ligger på Länsstyrelsen, men deras beskrivning redogör dock inte om parken skulle ha några kulturhistoriska värden. Syftet med arbetet är att ta reda på parkens historia, och att undersöka hur Observatorieparkens kulturmiljövärden kan inventeras och bedömas. Detta görs genom en sammanställning av parkens historia utifrån bland annat arkivstudier, ett platsbesök och genom att använda analysmetoden Kulturhistorisk bedömning av parker och grönområden – en metodutveckling. Resultatet visar att Observatorieparkens placering var ej slumpmässig. En anledning till parkens placering var tillgången till fast berggrund. Astronomiprofessorn Gustav Svanberg var aktiv i både planeringen och anläggningen av byggnaden och parken. Han nämner i sin bok några detaljer om parken, men en mer sammanfattad helhetsbeskrivning saknas i dagens läge. Ur analysen framkommer det att parken besitter en del olika värden som kan vara intressanta ur ett kulturhistoriskt perspektiv. Det finns därmed indikationer på att parken skulle kunna vara mer värd ur ett kulturhistoriskt perspektiv än vad Länsstyrelsen beskriver, dock skulle man behöva vara sakkunnig inom ämnet och utföra jämförelseanalyser för att kunna fastställa något sådant.Parks can feel like obvious components in today’s society, but there are differences between them. Some parks are more meaningful from a cultural and historical point of view, and can therefore be granted status as a cultural-historical building or environment. These parks can among other things tell stories about the past, and people need these stories. Within Uppsala County there are 42 parks of which 27 are brought up in a list as interesting in a culturally significant way, where Observatorieparken isn’t mentioned even though it is a cultural-historical environment. The supervisory responsibility for Observatorieparken is Länsstyrelsen, and according to Länsstyrelsen’s description the park does not has any cultural or historical significance. The objective of this thesis is to find out about the park’s history, and to research how Observatorieparken’s cultural environmental significance can be inventoried and assessed. This is done via a compendium of the park’s history according to archival studies, a site visit and by using the analyzing method “Kulturhistorisk bedömning av parker och grönområden – en metodutveckling”. The result shows that the placement of Observatorieparken wasn’t coincidental. The reason for the park’s location was the bedrock. The professor of astronomy Gustav Svanberg was active in both the planning and the realization of the buildings and the park. Svanberg gave some details about the park, but there lack a more summarized overall description of the park. It is evident in the analysis that the park possesses several valued objects that can be deemed as interesting from a cultural-historical perspective. Thereby there are indicators that the park could be more valuable from a cultural-historical perspective then what Länsstyrelsen describes

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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

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    We 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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    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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 Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902

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    In 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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