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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
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
Conformational dynamics of polypeptides and the folding of miniproteins studied by fluorescence spectroscopy
Get PDFLöllmann M. Conformational dynamics of polypeptides and the folding of miniproteins studied by fluorescence spectroscopy. Bielefeld (Germany): Bielefeld University; 2010.Proteinfaltung beschreibt den Prozess, in dem eine unstrukturierte Aminosäurekette in eine dreidimensionale Proteinstruktur faltet, und zwar in Abhängigkeit von der Aminosäurensequenz. Der Übergang von der Aminosäurekette zum gefalteten Protein ist noch nicht vollständig verstanden, da viele weitere Einflüsse neben der Aminosäurensequenz die Faltung beeinflussen.
Fluoreszenzkorrelationsspektroskopie wurde benutzt, um die Konformationsdynamik von verschiedenen Modellsystemen, wie sehr flexible Polypeptide bis hin zu Proteinturns, die eine Sekundärstruktur zeigen, zu untersuchen. Die Abhängigkeit der End-zu-End Kontaktformation der Peptide von der Temperatur und der Viskosität wurde betrachtet. Wir fanden, dass glutamindominierte Peptide eine hohe Interne Reibung und Aktivierungsenthalpie zeigen. Des Weiteren zeigte sich, dass die lokale Flexibilität von Proteinturns stark von der Aminosäuresequenz abhängig ist.
Ein weiterer Teil der Arbeit beschäftigte sich mit dem Einfluss der Salzbrücke auf die Faltung des Tryptophan Cage Miniproteins. Wir konnten beobachten, dass die Salzbrücke ein essentieller Teil für die hohe Stabilität des Tryptophan Cage darstellt.
Der letzte Teil der Arbeit konzentrierte sich auf die Fragestellung, wie organische Osmolyte die End-zu-End Kontaktformation von Peptiden und die Faltung des Tryptophan Cage beeinflussen. Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen, dass intrinsisch unstrukturierte Peptide nicht von Osmolyten beeinflusst werden, dass jedoch glutamindominierte Peptide und der Tryptophan Cage beeinflusst werden. Wir konnten zeigen, dass eine hohe Konzentration von stabilisierenden Osmolyten in der Lage ist, den Verlust der Salzbrücke im Tryptophan Cage zu kompensieren.Protein folding describes the process in which an unstructured amino acid chain folds into a three dimensional protein structure depending on the amino acid sequence. The transition from the amino acid chain to the folded protein is not fully understood yet because many circumstances besides the chain sequence influence this transition.
Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy was used to investigate the conformational dynamics of different model systems from highly flexible polypeptides to those that exhibit secondary structure elements like protein turns. We looked at the temperature and viscosity dependence of the end-to-end contact formation. It was found that glutamine rich peptides show a significant internal friction and activation enthalpy. Furthermore it showed that the local flexibility of protein turns is very dependent on the amino acid sequence.
A further part was to look on the influence of the salt bridge on the folding of the tryptophan cage miniprotein. The observation was that the salt bridge is essential for the high stability of the tryptophan cage.
The last part concentrates on the question how organic osmolytes influence the loop closure of peptides and the folding of the tryptophan cage. Our results show that intrinsically unstructured peptides are not influenced by osmolytes but glutaminerich peptides and the tryptophan cage are. We were able to show that a high concentration of a stabilizing osmolyte is able to compensate the loss of the salt bridge in the tryptophan cage
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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