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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe 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
Rappresentare e narrare i paesaggi: una sperimentazione riferita ad alcuni paesaggi dell’anfiteatro morenico di Ivrea
No full textFra le diverse azioni della ricerca “Progetto di sperimentazione per l’attuazione del piano paesaggistico del Piemonte” promossa nel 2018 dalla Compagnia di San Paolo, d’intesa con la Regione e il Segretariato regionale MiBACT, è stato intrapreso uno specifico lavoro di rappresentazione cartografica e di narrazione dei paesaggi.
Inizialmente non prevista, questa azione è stata avviata a fronte della necessità di comprendere e far comprendere un paesaggio molto articolato, che la Scheda d’ambito del Piano paesaggistico restituisce in termini necessariamente aggregati. Lo sguardo sul lungo periodo, sulle permanenze e capacità di adattamento alle mutevoli variabili esterne, offre alcune riflessioni interessanti sulla resilienza intesa come processo di apprendimento site-specific
Stability of front tracking solutions to the initial and boundary value problem for systems of conservation laws
No full textWe deal with the non characteristic initial and boundary value problem
for an strictly hyperbolic system of conservation laws in
one space dimension
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\partial_t u+ \partial_x F(u)=0,\qquad u(0,x) = \bar u (x)\,,\qquad
b\big( u(\psi(t),t) \big) = g(t)\,.\eqno (\ast)
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Here is a smooth vector field defined in an open, convex
neighborhood of the origin of , and are
functions with small total variation, is a non
characteristic Lipschitz boundary profile, and a
function. We prove that the front tracking solutions to ()
constructed by D. Amadori in \cite{Amadori} are stable for the
\elleuno topology. This implies the existence of a Standard Riemann
Semigroup and hence the well-posedness of ()
Cultural and gender politics in a neglected archive of Jamaican women's poetry : Una Marson and her Creole contemporaries
No full textThis thesis considers the gender and cultural politics of selected Jamaican
women's poetry published during the first half of the twentieth century and
seeks to establish that an approach to this poetry sensitive to these issues will
illuminate aspects of their work previously neglected by canonical and colonial
modes of interpretation. The central interest of this thesis is the poetry of Una
Marson, a black woman poet whose work has been critically neglected and
devalued to date. My project is to read Marson's work in some detail, and to
explore to what extent her poetry, which often works within colonial models and
with conventional notions of feminine fulfilment, employs received aesthetic
and ideological paradigms both strategically and subversively. In the belief
that critics of Jamaican women's writing should be as attentive to the gender
and cultural politics of their ways of reading, as of the texts they wish to read,
the first chapter of this thesis engages in a sustained analysis of theoretical
positions and attempts to map out the various problems and possibilities
which critical discourses present in relation to this material. The second
chapter examines the various social and literary contexts in which Jamaican
poetry was produced and received during this period, and the third chapter
looks in more detail at contemporary notions of aesthetic and cultural forms.
The fourth and fifth chapters are structured aromd close textual readings
which explore the variety and complexity of Marson's, and her Creole
contemporaries', poetic engagement with the issues of cultural and gender
identities. The thesis concludes that Marson's poetry questions dominant
notions both of identity and of aesthetics, and consequently that her poetry
offers an example of Jamaican literary expression which moves beyond the
nationalization of consciousness which has come to mark the literary
achievement of this period
Pragmatic Case Studies as a Source of Unity in Applied Psychology
No full textTo unify or not to unify applied psychology: that is the question. In this article we review pendulum swings in the historical efforts to answer this question—from a comprehensive, positivist, “top-down,” deductive yes between the 1930s and the early 60s, to a postmodern no since then. A rationale and proposal for a limited, “bottom-up,” inductive yes in applied psychology is then presented, employing a case-based paradigm that integrates both positivist and postmodern themes and components. This paradigm is labeled “pragmatic psychology” and, its specific use of case studies, the “Pragmatic Case Study Method” (“PCS Method”). We call for the creation of peer-reviewed journal-databases of pragmatic case studies as a foundational source of unifying applied knowledge in our discipline. As one example, the potential of the PCS Method for unifying different angles of theoretical regard is illustrated in an area of applied psychology, psychotherapy, via the case of Mrs. B. The article then turns to the broader historical and epistemological arguments for the unifying nature of the PCS Method in both applied and basic psychology.Peer reviewe
Incidental finding of Hodgkin’s disease following initial presentation with traumatic haematoma in the thoracic inlet
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