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Author Alex Haley with LA County Library Staff at Library Breakfast, 1988
No full textAuthor Alex Haley with LA County Library Staff at Library Breakfast, 198
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Author, Author, o la celebración del ser y del autor (Parte II)
Full text linkIn the last years David Lodge has been particularly concerned with the way in which both science and the humanities are challenging the traditional idea of the self as unique and
autonomous: “If the self is a fiction, it may perhaps be the supreme fiction, the greatest
achievement of human consciousness, the one that makes us human.” For Lodge the novel
is the genre that best reflects the subjectivity of human experience, thus offering us the
richest and most comprehensive record of human consciousness. His last novel, Author,
Author, like the previous one, Thinks... is a clear apology of the autonomous, individual
self, not only because its main character is a writer, Henry James, who always defended that
the subject of the novel was the whole of human consciousness, but because it allows us to
have access to his inner thoughts and feelings, precisely those that cannot be described by
science.En los últimos años David Lodge se ha interesado particularmente por el modo en que
tanto la ciencia como las humanidades han cuestionado el concepto tradicional del ser
humano como individuo único y autónomo: “If the self is a fiction, it may perhaps be the
supreme fiction, the greatest achievement of human consciousness, the one that makes us
human.” Para Lodge la novela es el género que mejor refleja la subjetividad de la experiencia
humana, ofreciéndonos la más rica y extensa descripción de la consciencia humana. Su
última novela, Author, Author, como la anterior, Thinks... es una clara apología del ser indi-
vidual y autónomo, no sólo porque su principal personaje sea un autor, Henry James, que
siempre defendió que el principal tema de la novela debía ser la totalidad de la consciencia
humana, sino también porque nos permite tener acceso a sus pensamientos y sentimientos
más íntimos, precisamente aquellos que no pueden ser descritos por la ciencia
El fomento de la contratación laboral
Full text linkDesde 1994 la política legislativa para fomentar el empleo ha seguido tres caminos paralelos: a) la desaparición del contrato temporal no causal y la correlativa existencia de sólo
contratos temporales causales para los que, incluso, se ha fijado una indemnización a la
finalización; b) la existencia de un nuevo contrato de trabajo llamado contrato para el
fomento de la contratación indefinida; y c) la regulación de un programa de bonificaciones
en la cotización a la Seguridad Social. En este trabajo se analizan las diferentes medidas que
tienden al fomento de la contratación laboral como un conjunto coherente. Finalmente, el
autor incluye que el régimen de bonificaciones en las cotizaciones de la Seguridad Social no
son estrictamente «ayuda pública» de acuerdo con la jurisprudencia del Tribunal de Justicia
de la Unión Europea.Since 1994, the legal policy to encourage the support and the creation of jobs has taken
three parallel ways: a) «No-causal part-time contracts» dissapear, while more requirements
to sign part-time contracts are demanded, and even an indemnization is fixed in case those
are extinguished; b) A new labor contract, named «contract to promote indefinite-time
jobs», is encouraged; c) Yearly, the law regulates a program of bonus in employer’s contributions to Social Security. In this article, all the different aspects and also the legal of such
measures to foster job creation are analised. Finally, the author concludes that the regime of
bonus in employer’s contributions does not represent «public aid», according to the doctrine of the Court of Justice of the European Unio
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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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