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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
Online power allocation in a dynamic and umpredictable iot network
No full textL’Internet des Objets (IoT) est envisagé pour interconnecter des objets communicants et autonomes au sein du même réseau, qui peut être le réseau Internet ou un réseau de communication sans fil. Les objets autonomes qui composent les réseaux IoT possèdent des caractéristiques très différentes, que ce soit en terme d’application, de connectivité, de puissance de calcul, de mobilité ou encore de consommation de puissance. Le fait que tant d’objets hétérogènes partagent un même réseau soulève de nombreux défis tels que : l’identification des objets, l’efficacité énergétique, le contrôle des interférences du réseau, la latence ou encore la fiabilité des communications. La densification du réseau couplée à la limitation des ressources spectrales (partagées entre les objets) et à l’efficacité énergétique obligent les objets à optimiser l’utilisation des ressources fréquentielles et de puissance de transmission. De plus, la mobilité des objets au sein du réseau ainsi que la grande variabilité de leur comportement changent la dynamique du réseau qui devient imprévisible. Dans ce contexte, il devient difficile pour les objets d’utiliser des algorithmes d’allocation de ressources classiques, qui se basent sur une connaissance parfaite ou statistique du réseau. Afin de transmettre de manière efficace, il est impératif de développer de nouveaux algorithmes d’allocation de ressources qui sont en mesure de s’adapter aux évolutions du réseau. Pour cela, nous allons utiliser des outils d’optimisation en ligne et des techniques d’apprentissage. Dans ce cadre nous allons exploiter la notion du regret qui permet de comparer l’efficacité d’une allocation de puissance dynamique à la meilleure allocation de puissance fixe calculée à posteriori. Nous allons aussi utiliser la notion de non-regret qui garantit que l’allocation de puissance dynamique donne des résultats asymptotiquement optimaux . Dans cette thèse, nous nous sommes concentrés sur le problème de minimisation de puissance sous contrainte de débit. Ce type de problème permet de garantir une certaine efficacité énergétique tout en assurant une qualité de service minimale des communications. De plus, nous considérons des réseaux de type IoT et ne faisons donc aucune hypothèse quant aux évolutions du réseau. Un des objectifs majeurs de cette thèse est la réduction de la quantité d’information nécessaire à la détermination de l’allocation de puissance dynamique. Pour résoudre ce problème, nous avons proposé des algorithmes inspirés du problème du bandit manchot, problème classique de l’apprentissage statistique. Nous avons montré que ces algorithmes sont efficaces en terme du regret lorsque l’objet a accès à un vecteur, le gradient ou l’estimateur non-biaisé du gradient, comme feedback d’information. Afin de réduire d’avantage la quantité d’information reçue par l’objet, nous avons proposé une méthode de construction d’un estimateur du gradient basé uniquement sur une information scalaire. En utilisant cet estimateur nous avons présenté un algorithme efficace d’allocation de puissance.One of the key challenges in Internet of Things (IoT) networks is to connect numerous, heterogeneous andautonomous devices. These devices have different types of characteristics in terms of: application, computational power, connectivity, mobility or power consumption. These characteristics give rise to challenges concerning resource allocation such as: a) these devices operate in a highly dynamic and unpredictable environments; b) the lack of sufficient information at the device end; c) the interference control due to the large number of devices in the network. The fact that the network is highly dynamic and unpredictable implies that existing solutions for resource allocation are no longer relevant because classical solutions require a perfect or statistical knowledge of the network. To address these issues, we use tools from online optimization and machine learning. In the online optimization framework, the device only needs to have strictly causal information to define its online policy. In order to evaluate the performance of a given online policy, the most commonly used notion is that of the regret, which compares its performance in terms of loss with a benchmark policy, i.e., the best fixed strategy computed in hindsight. Otherwise stated, the regret measures the performance gap between an online policy and the best mean optimal solution over a fixed horizon. In this thesis, we focus on an online power minimization problem under rate constraints in a dynamic IoT network. To address this issue, we propose a regret-based formulation that accounts for arbitrary network dynamics, using techniques used to solve the multi-armed bandit problem. This allows us to derive an online power allocation policy which is provably capable of adapting to such changes, while relying solely on strictly causal feedback. In so doing, we identify an important tradeoff between the amount of feedback available at the transmitter side and the resulting system performance. We first study the case in which the device has access to a vector, either the gradient or an unbiased estimated of the gradient, as information feedback. To limit the feedback exchange in the network our goal is to reduce it as mush as possible. Therefore, we study the case in which the device has access to only a loss-based information (scalar feedback). In this case, we propose a second online algorithm to determine an efficient and adaptative power allocation policy
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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