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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

    Nonlinear vibrations of thin hyperelastic plates

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    Static deflection as well as free and forced nonlinear vibration of thin square plates made of hyperelastic materials are investigated. Two types of materials, namely rubber and soft biological tissues, are considered. The involved physical (material) nonlinearities are described through Neo-Hookean, Mooney-Rivlin, and Ogden hyperelastic laws; geometrical nonlinearities are modeled by the Novozhilov nonlinear shell theory. Dynamic local models are first built in the vicinity of a static configuration of interest that has been previously calculated. This gives rise to the approximation of the plate's behavior in the form of a system of ordinary differential equations with quadratic and cubic nonlinear terms in displacement. Numerical results are compared and validated in the static case via a commercial FE software package: they are found to be accurate for deflections reaching 100 times the thickness of the plate. The frequency shift between low- and large-amplitude vibrations weakens with an increased initial deflection

    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

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    L'Union Européenne et les politiques de concertation en Italie

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    L'article s'occupe de deux recherches sur la participation de la société civile dans la programmation et dans l'implementation des politiques sociale en Italie. La première concerne l'utilisation des financements européens et les divers modèles d'implementation suivis par les régions italiennes; la seconde regard un'expérience de democratie délibérative et la participation de la société civile à la programmation et à l'implementation des politiques de solidarité sociale à Rome. Dans les deux cas les associations des bénévoles sont présentes et jouent un rôle positif mais different dans le régions du Nord et du Centre d'Italie et dans le régions du Sud

    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

    Joachim Du Bellay, OEuvres complètes. Tome III – 1551-1553, édition de M.-D. Legrand, M. Magnien, D. Ménager et O. Millet, Paris, Classiques Garnier, « Textes de la Renaissance », n. 187, 2013

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    Recensione del volume Joachim Du Bellay, Œuvres complètes. Tome III – 1551-1553, édition de M.-D. Legrand, M. Magnien, D. Ménager et O. Millet, Paris, Classiques Garnier, « Textes de la Renaissance », n. 187, 201
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