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MATLAB*P 2.0 : interactive supercomputing made practical
No full textThesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2002.Includes bibliographical references (p. 64-67).by Long Yin Choy.S.M
Urban infrastructuring: trajectories of infrastructural entanglement in cities of the Global South
No full textIn this chapter, we introduce the notion of infrastructural entanglement to denote the close relationships and correlations that develop between components of infrastructural configurations and other social, ecological, political, or otherwise defined systems as part of urbanisation and globalisation in countries of the Global South. We employ the notion of infrastructuring as engendering complex infrastructural entanglements that have severe implications for sustainability. We argue that infrastructuring is essential to urbanisation, that it is entangled with socio-spatio-ecological transformations that often have negative outcomes over time and that it requires an ethical positioning in research and practice in order to enhance infrastructural sustainability in the face of intersecting environmental, social and economic crises. Building on these assumptions, the chapter introduces the overall argument of the edited volume, which is developed in three parts. First, the volume identifies infrastructural entanglements across various urban and urbanising settings in the Global South. Second, it highlights some of the damaging processes and outcomes of urban infrastructuring and argues that the absence, presence and transformation of infrastructure in the Global South (re-)produces socioecological injustice in the short- and long term. Third, the volume argues for a shift of infrastructuring agendas towards more just and sustainable interventions
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
Yu dong wu gou tong ru he ke neng? Meiluo Pangdi xian xiang xue dui ren yu dong wu cun zai lun de zhong xin kao cha
No full textM.Phil.The aim of the thesis is to explore a new way to understand the ontological status of animal being. Heidegger describes animality as “poor-in-world”, animal behavior is mainly driven by the environmental world. I think his description of animal is not complete. Even though animal behavior is passively driven by environment, it doesn’t imply that these behaviors could not have meaning. Through referring to the Merleau-pontian phenomenology of language and nature, this thesis tries to draw a philosophical description of the expressive aspect of animal.One of the difficulties of phenomenological method is the first-person description of the otherness of animal. By using the ethological study of Konrad Lorenz, I try to show that animal can express. Therefore, animal behavior is then not machinery reaction without meaning. This thesis draws support from a lot of studies conducted by classical ethologists such as Jakob von Uexküll, Konrad Lorenz and other modern ethologists. This helps me to establish the philosophical ground that man could communicate with animals in non-verbal sense.這篇論文旨在尋求理解動物存狀態的新方式。海德格形容性乃「世界是貧乏」(poor-in-world)，而動物行為主要受周遭環境所驅使。我認為他對於動物的描述並不完整。即使動物行為是被地由環境觸發，這並不代表些行為沒有意義內容。通過梅洛龐蒂的語言及自然現象學，這論文嘗試對動物的表達層面作哲學性描述。現象學的其中一項困難是對於動物他者描述。故此，我嘗試運用洛倫茲的動物行為學研究，來展示出動物具能夠表達的力。所以，行為並非沒有意義內容機械式反應。這論文引用了很多經典動物行為學家的研究以尋求助證，例如烏也斯庫爾(Jakob von Uexküll)、洛倫茲與其他現代的動物行為學家著作，這均助我建立「人可以與動物作非口語溝通」的哲學基礎。Kum, Long Yin."November 2018."Thesis M.Phil. Chinese University of Hong Kong 2019.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 143-146).Abstracts also in Chinese.Title from PDF title page (viewed on …).Kum, Long Yin
Urban Infrastructuring:trajectories of infrastructural entanglement in cities of the Global South: Introduction
No full textIn this chapter, we introduce the notion of infrastructural entanglement to denote the close relationships and correlations that develop between components of infrastructural configurations and other social, ecological, political, or otherwise defined systems as part of urbanisation and globalisation in countries of the Global South. We employ the notion of infrastructuring as engendering complex infrastructural entanglements that have severe implications for sustainability. We argue that infrastructuring is essential to urbanisation, that it is entangled with socio-spatio-ecological transformations that often have negative outcomes over time and that it requires an ethical positioning in research and practice in order to enhance infrastructural sustainability in the face of intersecting environmental, social and economic crises. Building on these assumptions, the chapter introduces the overall argument of the edited volume, which is developed in three parts. First, the volume identifies infrastructural entanglements across various urban and urbanising settings in the Global South. Second, it highlights some of the damaging processes and outcomes of urban infrastructuring and argues that the absence, presence and transformation of infrastructure in the Global South (re-)produces socioecological injustice in the short- and long term. Third, the volume argues for a shift of infrastructuring agendas towards more just and sustainable interventions
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
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