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    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

    Author Index

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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

    Analysis of the dark current increase and its fluctuations in CMOS imagers operated in space and nuclear radiative environments

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    Inspirés des technologies microélectroniques CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor), les capteurs d’images CMOS sont largement utilisés dans de nombreuses applications grand public et prédominent sur le marché commercial des caméras intégrées. Au cours de la dernière décennie, de nombreuses avancées technologiques ont permis au capteur d’image CMOS d’atteindre d’excellentes performances ainsi qu’une faible consommation d’énergie. Par conséquent, ces imageurs deviennent des candidats essentiels pour un nombre croissant d’applications spatiales et nucléaires. Cependant, le comportement de ces dispositifs microélectroniques dans les environnements radiatifs nucléaires et spatiaux est encore mal compris. Par conséquent, il est nécessaire d’étudier les différents mécanismes qui conduisent à la dégradation des performances des capteurs d’images CMOS et en particulier à l’augmentation du courant d’obscurité, un signal parasite qui augmente avec les doses de radiations.Parmi ces doses de radiations, la dose dite de déplacement, relative à l’altération de la structure cristalline du silicium, reste peu étudiée par rapport à la dose dite ionisante. Dans les dernières technologies de capteurs d’images CMOS utilisant des photodiodes pincées, la dose ionisante n’est plus le mécanisme de dégradation dominant dès lors que la dose de déplacement est mise en jeu. La dose de déplacement devient le mécanisme de dégradation principal qui conduit à l’augmentation du courant d’obscurité. Ce travail se concentre principalement sur le rôle des défauts cristallins, créés par la dose de déplacement induits par les radiations, dans l’augmentation du courant d’obscurité des capteurs d’images CMOS. Un intérêt particulier est accordé aux défauts métastables qui sont probablement la cause des fluctuations discrètes et aléatoires du courant d’obscurité appelé : signal des télégraphistes. Cette étude présente un double enjeu :Le premier vise à contribuer à l’amélioration des connaissances des principes physiques mis en jeu dans le silicium cristallin face aux radiations. Les interactions particule-matière,associées à l’architecture spécifique des capteurs d’images, visent à fournir des outils fiables pour l’analyse des défauts induits par les radiations dans le silicium. Ces observations et résultats peuvent être étendus à tous les dispositifs à base de silicium et plus généralement aux autres dispositifs à semi conducteurs.Le second vise à identifier les différents mécanismes conduisant à l’augmentation du courant d’obscurité des capteurs d’images CMOS lorsqu’ils fonctionnent dans des environnements radiatifs. L’étude vise à identifier et à améliorer la connaissance des comportements des sources de courant d’obscurité dans le but d’optimiser les capteurs d’images CMOS pour les futures applications spatiales et nucléaires.Inspired by the microelectronic Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) technologies, CMOS image sensors are widely used in many consumer-grade applications and are predominant in the commercial market for embedded cameras. Over the past decade,numerous technological advances allowed state-of-the-art CMOS image sensors to achieve excellent performances as well as low-power consumption. Therefore, CMOS image sensors are becoming essential candidates for a growing number of high-end applications such as space and nuclear applications. However, the behavior of these microelectronic devices inspace and nuclear radiative environments is still under understanding. Hence, studies still investigate the different mechanisms that lead to the degradation of CMOS image sensor performances including the radiation-induced dark current increase, a parasitic signal that increases with radiation doses. Among these radiation doses, the so-called displacement dose,relative to the alteration of the crystalline structure of the silicon, remains poorly studied compared to the so-called ionizing dose. In the latest CMOS image sensor technologies using pinned photodiodes, the ionizing dose is no longer the main degradation mechanism when the displacement dose is at stake. From then on, the displacement dose becomes the principal degradation mechanism that leads to the dark current increase. This work mainly focuses onthe role of the crystalline defects, created by radiation-induced displacement damage, in the CMOS image sensor dark current increase. Particular interest is given to metastable defects,which are probably the cause of discrete and random fluctuations of the dark current called : Dark Current Random Telegraph Signal (DC-RTS). This study presents a double objective :The first aims to contribute to improving knowledge of the physical principles involved in crystalline silicon when facing radiations. Particle-matter interactions, combined with the specific architecture of image sensors, aim to provide reliable tools to analyze the radiation induced defects in silicon. Observations and findings can be extended to all silicon-based devices and more generally to other semiconductor-based devices.The second seeks to identify the different mechanisms leading to CMOS image sensor dark current increase when operating in radiative environments. The study aims to identify and improve knowledge on the behavior of dark current sources aiming to optimize CMOS image sensors for future space and nuclear applications
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