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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
Nouvelles stratégies d’induction pour systèmes biologiques synthétiques
No full textLes chercheurs en biologie de synthèse programment l’ADN pour construire des systèmes biologiques capables de répondre à certaines conditions de manière prédéfinie. Cette capacité pourrait avoir un impact sur plusieurs domaines, de la médecine à la fermentation industrielle. Le traitement de signal par des circuits biologiques synthétiques est en train d’être démontré à large échelle, mais hélas la variété des signaux d’entrée capables de contrôler ces circuits est pour l’instant limitée. Ce manque de diversité est un obstacle majeur au développement de nouvelles applications car en général chaque application requiert une réponse à des signaux de nature particulière qui lui sont spécifiques. Cette thèse cherche à apporter des solutions au manque de signaux d’entrée appropriés contrôlant les circuits biologiques en développant deux nouvelles stratégies d’induction. La première stratégie vise à étendre la diversité chimique des signaux d’entrée. A l’inverse des approches existantes, qui reposent sur la modification des systèmes de détections naturels tels que les riboswitchs ou les facteurs de transcription allostériques, j’ai cherché ici à modifier directement des molécules préalablement non-détectables afin de les rendre détectables par les systèmes de détection actuels. Pour ce faire, la transformation chimique des molécules cibles est réalisée in situ grâce à l’expression de voies métaboliques synthétiques dans la cellule. Afin de pouvoir utiliser cette stratégie de manière systématique, j’ai employé la conception assistée par ordinateur et puisé dans l’ensemble des réactions biochimiques connues afin de prédire des voies de détections pour de nouvelles molécules. J’ai ensuite implémenté in vivo plusieurs prédictions qui ont permis à E. coli de détecter de nouveaux composés. Au-delà de l’intérêt de cette méthode en biotechnologie, cela montre que le métabolisme peut jouer un rôle dans le transfert d’information, en plus de son rôle dans le transfert de matière et d’énergie, ce qui soulève la question de l’utilisation potentielle de cette stratégie de détection par la nature. Un second axe présente une façon d’épargner l’utilisation d’inducteurs chimiques pour les programmes biologiques simples, et propose d’utiliser des inducteurs biologiques à la place. Lorsqu’une seule étape d’induction ou de répression de gènes est nécessaire, comme c’est le cas en fermentation industrielle, je propose de remplacer la coûteuse étape d’induction chimique par l’infection simultanée de toutes les cellules d’une population par des particules virales capables d’injecter en temps réel l’ensemble des informations nécessaires pour déclencher l’activité biologique recherchée. A des fins de fermentation, j’ai développé des particules virales modifiées qui reprogramment dynamiquement le métabolisme d’une large population de bactérie au moment opportun et les forcent à produire des molécules à haute valeur ajoutée.Synthetic biologists program DNA with the aim of building biological systems that react under certain conditions in a predefined way. This ability could have impact in several fields, from medicine to industrial fermentation. While the scalability of synthetic biological circuits in terms of signal processing in now almost demonstrated, the variety of input signals for these circuits is limited. Because each application typically requires a circuit to react to case-specific molecules, the lack of input diversity is a major obstacle to the development of new applications. Two axis are developed over the course of this thesis to try to address input-related problems. The main axis consists in a new strategy aiming at systematically and immediately increasing the chemical diversity of inputs for synthetic circuits. Current approaches to expand the number of potential inputs focus on re-engineering sensing systems such as riboswitches or allosteric transcription factors to make them react to previously non-detectable molecules. On the contrary, here we developed a method to transform the non-detectable molecules themselves into molecules for which sensing systems already exist. These chemical transformations are realized in situ by expressing synthetic metabolic pathways in the cell. In order to systematize this strategy, we leveraged computer-aided design to predict ways of detecting new molecules by digging into all known biochemical reactions. We then implemented several predictions in vivo that successfully enabled E. coli to detect new chemicals. Aside from the interest of the method for biotechnological applications, this shows that in addition to transferring matter and energy, metabolism can also play a role in transferring information, raising the question of potential occurrences of this sensing strategy in nature. A second axis introduce a way to exempt simple programs from the need for a chemical input, and explore the use of a biological input instead. In situations where a single timely induction or repression of multiple genes is required, such as in industrial fermentation processes, we propose to replace expensive chemical induction by simultaneous infection of all the members of a growing population of cells with viral particles inputting in real-time all the necessary information for the task at hand. In the context of fermentation, we developed engineered viral particles that can dynamically reprogram the metabolism of a large population of bacteria at the optimal stage of growth and force them to produce value-added chemicals
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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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