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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
Elaboration of new scheme which performs both lossless compression and encryption of data base on arithmetic coding
No full textActuellement, nous vivons dans une société numérique. L'avènement de l'Internet et l'arrivée du multimédia et des supports de stockage numériques, ont transformé profondément la façon dont nous communiquons. L'image en particulier occupe une place très importante dans la communication interpersonnelle moderne. Toutefois, elle présente l'inconvénient d'être représentée par une quantité d'information très importante. De ce fait, la transmission et le stockage des images soulèvent certains problèmes qui sont liés essentiellement à la sécurité et à la compression d'images. Ce sont ces considérations qui ont guidé cette thèse. En effet, la problématique que nous posons dans cette thèse est de proposer une solution conduisant à la crypto-compression d'images afin d'assurer un archivage et un transfert sécurisés tout en conservant les performances de la méthode de compression utilisée. En effet, nos travaux de recherche ont porté essentiellement sur la compression et le cryptage des images numériques. Concernant la compression, nous avons porté un intérêt particulier au codage arithmétique vu sont efficacité en terme de ta ux de compression et son utilisation par les nouvelles normes et standards de compression tel que JPEG2000, JBIG, JBIG2 et H.264/AVC. Quant au cryptage, nous avons opté pour l'utilisation du chaos combiné avec les fractions continues afin de générer des flux de clés ayant à la fois de bonnes propriétés cryptographiques et statistiques. Ainsi, nous avons proposé deux nouvelles méthodes de compression sans perte basées sur le codage arithmétique tout en introduisant de nouveaux paramètres de codage afin de réduire davantage la taille en bits des images compressées. Deux autres méthodes s'appuient sur l'utilisation du chaos et des fractions continues pour le développement d'un générateur de nombres pseudo-aléatoires et le cryptage par flot d'images. Enfin, nous proposons une nouvelle méthode qui emploie conjointement le cryptage avec la compression. Cette dernière méthode se base sur l'échange des sous-intervalles associés aux symboles d'un codeur arit hmétique binaire de façon aléatoire tout en exploitant notre générateur de nombres pseudo-aléatoire. Elle est efficace, sécurisée et conserve le taux de compression obtenu par le codage arithmétique et ceci quelque soit le modèle statistique employé : statique ou adaptatif.Actually, we live in a digital society. The proliferation of the Internet and the rapid progress in information technology on multimedia, have profoundly transformed the way we communicate. An enormous amount of media can be easily exchanged through the Internet and other communication networks. Digital image in particular occupies an important place in modern interpersonal communication. However, image data have special features such as bulk capacity. Thus, image security and compression issues have became exceptionally acute. It is these considerations that have guided this thesis. Thus, we propose throw this thesis to incorporating security requirements in the data compression system to ensure reasonable security without downgrading the compression performance.For lossless image compression, we have paid most attention to the arithmetic coding (AC) which has been widely used as an efficient compression algorithm in the new standards including JBIG, JBIG2, JPEG2000 and H.264/AVC. For image encryption, we are based on the combination of a chaotic system and the Engel continued fraction map to generate key-stream with both good chaotic and statistical properties. First, we have proposed two new schemes for lossless image compression based on adding new pre-treatment steps and on proposing new modeling methods to estimate probabilities for AC. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed schemes give mean compression ratios that are significantly higher than those by the conventional AC. In addition, we have proposed a new pseudo-random bit generator (PRBG). The detailed analysis done by NIST statistical test Suite demonstrates that the proposed PRGB is suitable for cryptography. The proposed PRBG is used to develop a new symmetr ic stream cipher for image encryption. Theoretic and numerical simulation analyses indicate that our image encryption algorithm is efficient and satisfies high security. Finally, we have proposed a new scheme which performs both lossless compression and encryption of image. The lossless compression is based on the binary AC (BAC) and the encryption is based on the proposed PRBG. The numerical simulation analysis indicates that the proposed compression and encryption scheme satisfies highly security with no loss of the BAC compression efficiency
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
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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