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Acta Palaeomedica - International Journal of Palaeomedicine
No full textIn this issue we celebrate traditional osteological methods in papers addressing deviant burials and post-mortem mutilation as well as evidence of autoptic practices, respectively from Tuscany and Spain, a comprehensive analysis of malaria in Ancient Egypt, and congenital spine anomalies in prehistoric Sicily. This set of papers is corroborated by additional contributions from Australia and Germany presenting bioarchaeological findings in South Australia and the importance of plaster casts in German collections.
Editor-in-Chief
Francesco M. Galassi
Managing Editor
Elena Varott
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
Final notes on: Response to Galassi et al. concerning the paper by Turgut et al. "Three mythic giants for common fœtal malformation called 'cyclopia': Polyphemus, Tepegöz and Grendel", Child's Nervous System, DOI 10.1007/s00381-019-04,207-y
Full text linkWe would like to thank Turgut and his colleagues for accepting our remarks and for further stimulating the debate on the historical and palaeopathological aspects of cyclopia, as a way of both enriching the known record on this condition and supporting a broader, humanities-inclusive form of medical education
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
ASSESSMENTS FOR 3D RECONSTRUCTIONS OF CULTURAL HERITAGE USING DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES
No full textThe aim of this contribution is to show the results of evaluations on 3D digitizations performed using different methodologies and
technologies. In particular, for surveys conducted at the architectural and urban scale, the recent reduction of costs related to Time of
Flight and phase shift laser scanners is actually enhancing the replacement of traditional topographic instruments (i.e. total stations)
with range-based technologies for the acquisition of 3D data related to built heritage. If compared to surveys performed using
traditional topographic technologies, range-based ones offer a wide range of advantages, but they also require different skills,
procedures and times. The present contribution shows the results of a practical application of both approaches on the same case
study.
Another application was suggested by the recent developments in the photogrammetric field that enhance the improvement of
software able to automatically orient uncalibrated cameras and derive dense and accurate 3D point clouds, with evident benefits in
reduction of costs required for survey equipment. Therefore, the presented case study constituted the occasion to compare a rangebased
survey with a fast 3D acquisition and modelling using a Structure from Motion solution. These survey procedures were
adopted at an architectural scale, on a single building, that was surveyed both on the outside and on the inside.
Assessments on the quality of the rebuilt information is reported, as far as metric accuracy and reliability is concerned, as well as on
time consuming and on skills required during each step of the adopted pipelines. For all approaches, these analysis highlighted
advantages and disadvantages that allow to conduct evaluations on the possible convenience of adopting range-based technologies
instead of a traditional topographic approach or a photogrammetric one instead of a range based one in case of surveys conducted at
an architectural/urban scale
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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