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Nice bronzes in ugly pots. On the containers of the Bronze Age metal deposits from Karmin in SW Poland
No full textVessels containing deposits of metal items only exceptionally are subject to detailed studies. Only laconic remarks on the presence of pottery sherds or information that metal items were stored in a vessel or vessels are most often published. It seems that metal artefacts are perceived more valuable and thus deserving more attention, while pottery – most often the aesthetically unappealing kitchenware – is considered too plain to be interesting. The paper discusses technological and chemical properties of ceramic vessels from Bronze Age hoards from Karmin, Milicz district, in SW Poland
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
Persuasive strategies on websites about contraception
Get PDFThe article discusses typical persuasive strategies used by leading producers of contraceptives on their websites and on the websites of particular contraceptive products from the media-linguistic point of view. The purpose of the paper is to examine illocutions, text-clusters and the text-image relation through which the author wants to persuade about the quality of his products and to present arguments for using hormonal contraception. The article also shows which strategies are used to advertise the pill as a lifestyle and beauty product.The article discusses typical persuasive strategies used by leading producers of contraceptives on their websites and on the websites of particular contraceptive products from the media-linguistic point of view. The purpose of the paper is to examine illocutions, text-clusters and the text-image relation through which the author wants to persuade about the quality of his products and to present arguments for using hormonal contraception. The article also shows which strategies are used to advertise the pill as a lifestyle and beauty product
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
Making babies... Persuasive Activities on the Websites of German IVF Centres
No full textIn dem Artikel wird das Ziel verfolgt, die typischen persuasiven Sprechhandlungen auf den Startseiten der IVF-Zentren in Deutschland zu ermitteln. Es wird untersucht, wie der spezifische Kontext der Kommunikationssituation (Konkurrenz unter den IVF-Zentren, hoher Grad der Intimität) die sprachlichen Handlungen des Senders determiniert. Es werden auch die wichtigsten Text-Cluster auf den Startseiten der IVF-Kliniken untersucht. Analysiert werden außerdem die Illokutionen, durch die der Autor von der Qualität seiner Dienstleistungen überzeugen will und wofür er den betroffenen kinderlosen Paaren entsprechende Argumente für und allgemeine Informationen über die IVF-Behandlungsmethode präsentiert.The article discusses typical persuasive speech acts used on the websites of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) centres (clinics) in Germany. The purpose of the paper is to demonstrate how the specific context of the communicative situation (i.e. competition between IVF clinics, a high degree of privacy) determines the speech acts of the sender. The main persuasive text-clusters of the home pages of those websites are characterized. The author explores illocutions in these text-clusters through which senders intend to persuade the audience to use their services. Other illocutions under analysis are those which are employed to present arguments, information about the sender and the IVF method
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
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