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Farewell to Social Nostalgia. Book review of: Beyond Camelot: Rethinking Politics and Law for the Modern State. By Edward L. Rubin.
Get PDFBook review: Beyond Camelot: Rethinking Politics and Law for the Modern State. By Edward L. Rubin. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp.
471. Reviewed by: Peter E. QuintQuint, Peter E.. (2006). Farewell to Social Nostalgia. Book review of: Beyond Camelot: Rethinking Politics and Law for the Modern State. By Edward L. Rubin.. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/170156
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
Rethinking Legal Scholarship : A Transatlantic Dialogue | Rob van Gestel, Hans-W. Micklitz, Edward L. Rubin (dir.)
No full textRob van Gestel, Hans-W. Micklitz, Edward L. Rubin (dir.), Rethinking Legal Scholarship : A Transatlantic Dialogue, New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017. Compte rendu par Matthieu Febvre-Issaly (Université Paris 1) Le droit change, mais qu’est-ce que ce changement implique pour l’étude du droit elle-même et son enseignement ? Cet ouvrage collectif propose une analyse transversale de la question en s’intéressant aux traditions américaine et européenne. Sont-elles divergentes ou conve..
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
Double mode of action of black widow spider venom on frog neuromuscular junction
No full textBlack widow spider venom (BWSV) contains a toxin, α-latrotoxin, which is capable of stimulating vesicle release, resulting eventually in depletion of vesicles and block of neuromuscular transmission at the frog neuromuscular junction. Since it has been shown that α-latrotoxin very markedly increases the cation conductance of artificial lipid bilayers, it was postulated that BWSV stimulates release by opening channels permeable to Ca2+ and, in the case of Ca2+-free Ringer's, to Na+ which would release Ca2+ from intracellular stores. To test this hypothesis we chose as a sodium substitute, glucosamine, which is impermeable to the venom-induced channels in the lipid bilayers and to the postsynaptic membrane of the frog neuromuscular junction. Electron microscopical analysis showed that up to 75 min perfusion in Na+ and Ca2+-free medium did not alter the ultrastructure of the nerve terminals. However when BWSV was applied in this medium a significant depletion was noticeable within 15 min and after 60 min the terminals were depleted of vesicles whereas the mitochondria were unchanged in number and structure. If BWSV is applied for 60 min in glucosamine Ringer's containing 1.8 mM Ca2+, most of the nerve terminals still have synaptic vesicles scattered in the cytoplasm or clustered around amorphous structures and the mitochondria are swollen. Application of large doses of BWSV in low Ca2+ Ringer's leads to damage of the mitochondria and to very pronounced swelling of the nerve endings, whereas this is not observed if the dose of venom is applied in Na+-free and Ca2+-free Ringer's. Electrophysiological recording showed that neuromuscular transmission is already blocked after 15 min treatment with BWSV in glucosamme-Ringer's. From these results we conclude that BWSV increases the conductance of the nerve terminal membrane to cations such as Na+ and Ca2+ and stimulates release by a mechanism which may not involve its ionophore property
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
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