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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Hva får klagende kunder til å bli værende i relasjonen?
No full textÅ behandle kunders ugunstige opplevelser er en viktig oppgave for alle bedrifter som ønsker å maksimere verdien av kundebasen. Derfor bør håndtering av klager være en viktig og høyt prioritert oppgave i alle bedrifter. Tidligere forskning har i stor grad fokusert på årsaker til hvorfor kunder bytter fra en leverandør til en annen og konsekvensen av denne beslutningen. Det synes å være få studier som fokuserer på alternativet til å bytte, nemlig grunnene til at kunder velger å bli værende i en relasjon med en leverandør etter en reell byttevurdering. Denne studien sikter på å få en større forståelse av kundeklage-adferd og utrede mulige grunner til at klagende kunder blir værende i relasjonen gjennom kundens perspektiv. Det er informantenes subjektive opplevelse som er av interesse, ettersom det er virkelige kundeklage-adferd i stedet for predikerte kundeklage-adferd som er i fokus. Gjennom å få større innsikt i faktorer som påvirker klagende kunder til å bli værende i relasjonen, kan bedrifter og organisasjoner få et bedre grunnlag for å iverksette responsstrategier som forhindrer kunder fra å slutte å bruke tjenesten eller å velge en konkurrerende tjeneste. Forskningsdesignet i studien er kvalitativt, eksplorativt og induktivt. Forskningsintervju ble valgt for å nå informantenes subjektive mening og deres opplevde virkelighet. Oppgaven baserer seg på data fra 11 semistrukturerte livsverdenintervjuer med kunder som fylte de oppsatte inklusjonskriteriene. Resultatene viser at det er flere sammenflettede grunner som får klagende kunder til å bli værende i relasjonen. Dette indikerer at klagehåndteringsprosessen er en kompleks og dynamisk prosess hvor faktorene ikke er gjensidig utelukkende. Klagende kunder blir værende i relasjonen enten på grunn av begrensninger, eller på grunn av et ønske om å bli værende. Ønske om å bli værende er basert på; positiv byttekostnader (sosiale bånd), kunde recovery, mangel på kritiske hendelser og historikk. Følelsen av en begrensing er basert på; finansiell byttekostnad, mangelen på alternativ og personlighet. Kundene etterspør bedrifter som har fokus på tilrettelegging for klaging, bygger stabile relasjoner via økte relasjonsfordeler og sikrer tilfredstillelsen blant klagende kunder med kunde recovery. Denne empiriske studien er begrenset til elektroniske kommunikasjonstjenester og tilbydere av TV- og bredbåndtjenester i Norge. Resultatet kan allikevel ha overføringsverdi til andre kontekster og sektorer, der forståelsen av kundeklage-adferd og responsstrategier vil ha en innvirkning på relasjonen
Variations on the Author
No full text“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
No full textWe 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
No full textWe 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
The Recent Star Formation History of the Magellanic Clouds Traced by Classical Cepheids
No full textWe present a new theoretical calibration of the period-age (PA) relations for classical Cepheids in the Magellanic Clouds (MCs), by adopting a homogeneous set of nonlinear, convective pulsation models and a detailed set of intermediate-mass evolutionary tracks. The new PA relations were applied to the sample of MC classical Cepheids collected by OGLE III to investigate their recent star formation history. We found that the MCs experienced an ongoing star formation activity during the past 400 Myrs and the two systems show strong similarities. Moreover, we also found that the star formation was quite homogeneous when moving from the central bar regions to the more external regions. Current findings support dynamical models predicting that the MCs are binary galaxies in their first infall towards the Galaxy. The shift in mean age between the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC, ̃140 Myr) and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC, ̃230 Myr) is due to an intrinsic evolutionary property. The SMC is more metal-poor than the LMC and the extent in temperature of the blue loops is larger in the former system...
Author, publisher and bookseller : a tripartite synergy in Nigerian book industry
No full textThis work is about the roles of Author, Publisher and Bookseller in Book development in
Nigeria. The paper started by delving into the history of Book Publishing in Nigeria after
which it proceeded by defining who an author, a publisher, and a bookseller is and
expatiated on the indispensable roles of these key actors in Nigerian Book Industry and in
the emerging Information Society. Furthermore, the various constraints to book
development were identified while the paper advised on how the Book Industry can be
further promoted in Nigeria. However, the paper concluded and made recommendations
on how the Book sector can help in enhancing scholarship in the country
The Thursday Murder Club: Launching a megabrand author - a publishing case study
No full textIn 2020, the Christmas book charts in the UK made headlines: Barack Obama’s eagerly awaited autobiography, The Promised Land, was beaten to the top spot by The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman, a debut cosy crime novel set in a retirement village. Not only did Osman’s book beat the former US president’s expected bestseller, it also broke records, becoming the fastest-selling debut crime novel of all time. Although Osman has a certain level of fame in the UK from his TV appearances on shows such as Pointless, his celebrity status does not entirely explain the novel’s huge sales. This article tracks the acquisition, publication, and promotion journey of The Thursday Murder Club in order to understand the industry and cultural context of its success and to interrogate the role of celebrity in the creation of author brands. The findings suggest that the unexpected scale of the success of the book owed to a number of factors, including in-depth editing by the novel’s agent, editor, and author to tighten up the plot, an extensive and strategic promotional campaign, the pandemic (which drove interest in the book’s genre and themes), and the quality of the writing. We find that the book’s success was accentuated by Osman’s celebrity status rather than being entirely reliant on it. This research adds to the growing scholarship on celebrity authorship by means of an in-depth case study and provides insight into the processes behind publishing a ‘celebrity’ book and launching a megabrand author
Upptäcka felkopplade Telia kunder i nätverket
No full textAbstract The project consists of creating a program that can detect fiber customers that has been misconnected on the switch connecting them to the Telia network. The program will be able compare what customer is configured on the port against the customer who has received and the Telia router connected to the port. If there is a mismatch then there is a chance the customer has been misconnected. The comparison can be done because the unique serial number of the Telia router is both registered in the session database over active Telia routers and also in the database of products delivered to customers. This will only work on customers with Telia routers, but it will still be helpful as it would give an indication of what switches might have misconnect customers. If there is one misconnected customer on a switch there is likely to be more. The program was created with MySQL and PHP in the form of a web tool. The program can be run against certain switches or the program can be run against all active Telia routers and look for mismatches. To make the program work it required access to the session database over active Telia routers, the database over customer configuration on the port and the database over Telia routers sent to customers. These are three different systems and because of the time constraint only a part of the data was used or retrieved from testing environments. With the available data the program could do the comparison against 8627 customers and of those 303 customers had a mismatch in the comparison. This does not necessarily mean that all of them are misconnected. In most cases it was another person in the household receiving the Telia router than the person that was signed up on Telia services. This could be sort out by ensuring that the person receiving the Telia router also was signed up to a Telia service. This left 57 customers out of the 303. Out of those 57 customers a part of them had special services and some had split the services on two persons in one household. After sorting them out manually there was around 15 customers left who was likely misconnected There is still no way to be certain those 15 customer are misconnected, however there a possibility they are and if there are several mismatches on a single switch it is certainly worth investigating further as it is a large possibility there are misconnected customers.Sammanfattning Projektet består i att skapa ett program som kan upptäcka fiber kunder som har blivit felkopplade på switchen som ansluter dem till Telias nätverk. Programmet kommer att jämföra kunden som är konfigurerad på porten mot personen som har mottagit Teliaroutern som sitter på porten. Om de inte stämmer överens så finns det en risk att kunden har blivit felkopplad. Jämförelsen kan göras på grund av det unika serie numret på Teliaroutern som är registrerad både i sessionsdatabasen över aktiva Telia routrar och databasen över produkter levererade till kunder. Detta kommer bara fungera för kunder med Telia routrar, men kommer fortfarande vara användbart då det ger en indikation om vilka switchar som eventuellt kan ha felkopplade kunder. Om det finns en felkopplad kund så är det stor risk att det finns fler. Programmet skapades med MySQL och PHP i formen av ett webbverktyg. Programmet kan köras mot valda switchar eller kan det köras mot alla aktiva Telia routrar och hitta kunder där jämnföring inte stämmer överens. För att programmet ska fungera så behövdes det tillgång till sessionsdatabasen över aktiva Telia routrar, databasen över kundens tjänster konfigurerade på porten och databasen över utskickade Telia routrar. Det är alltså tre olika system och på grund av tidsbegränsning så användes bara en del av informationen eller så hämtades informationen från testmiljöer. Med den tillgängliga informationen kunde programmet köras mot 8627 kunder och av dem så stämde inte 303 kunder överens i jämförelsen. Detta betyder inte nödvändigtvis att alla är felkopplade. I de flesta fall så var det en annan person i hushållet som hade tagit emot Teliaroutern än den personen som stod skriven på Teliatjänsten. Dessa fall kunde sorteras bort genom att bara ta fall där mottagaren av Teliaroutern också står skriven på en Teliatjänst. Efter denna utsortering så lämnades 57 kunder kvar av 303. Av de 57 kunderna så hade några av dem specialtjänster och vissa hade delat upp tjänsterna på två personer i samma hushåll. Efter att ha manuellt sorterat dem så fanns det 15 kunder kvar som troligen är felkopplade. Det finns fortfarande inget sätt att garantera att de 15 kunderna har blivit felkopplade, men det finns en stor risk att dem är felkopplade och om programmet hittar flera misstänkta felkopplingar på samma switch är mycket troligt att det finns felkopplade kunder
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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