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Evolving norms of British housing
Full text linkThe 'Evolving Norms of British Housing' publication took the form of a book to accompany a jointly curated an exhibition of the ‘Evolving Norms of British Housing’, as part of the London Festival of Architecture 2008. Co-curators were Michael Howe of mæ architects, Matthew Lloyd of Matthew Lloyd Architects, Sam Price of Price and Myers, and urban designer Mandar Puranik. The premise of the exhibition being that the best homes and communities arise from a regular, some might say ordinary, pattern of urban or sub-urban residential development based on a logical and disciplined scale, often laid out in traditional street patterns, with highly considered plans and functional elevations. The exhibition featured representative schemes from 16 British practices, and explored fresh models for contextual 21st century housing that built on lessons from the past
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
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
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
Development of a stopped-flow ultra-rapid-scanning Fournier transform infrared spectrometer and its application for kinetic and mechanistic studies of inorganic compounds /by Matthew Lloyd Reback.
No full textThis dissertation describes the development of a stopped-flow ultra-rapid-scanning Fourier transform infrared spectrometer and its application for studying the kinetics and mechanisms of rapid chemical reactions. The instrument can consistently measure 200 full-range mid-IR (4000-800 cm{esc}p-1{esc}s) spectra per second which meshes seamlessly with the ~10ms mixing time of a stopped-flow instrument. With recent upgrades this instrument is capable of measuring 1000 full-range mid-IR spectra per second. This instrument is still a prototype and with a faster mixing device one can exploit the faster rate of data collection. The secondary focus describes mechanistic studies of transition metal carbonyls with nitrosyl chloride.Thesis (Ph. D., Chemistry)--University of Idaho, July 2010
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
Quantification of motor speech in primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia
No full text© 2017 Dr Matthew Lloyd PooleFrontotemporal dementia (FTD) and primary progressive aphasia (PPA) are two groups of related disorders which are classified into the behavioural (bvFTD), semantic (svPPA), nonfluent/agrammatic (nfvPPA) and logopaenic (lvPPA) variants. Each variant presents with characteristic impairments of communication or behaviour, and the defining features of the syndromes are under ongoing debate in the literature. Researchers and clinicians usually assess speech with listener-based rating scales, which pose a challenge for identifying subtle changes to speech. Objective measures of speech may therefore improve characterisation of speech impairments in the literature and assist in clinical diagnosis and management.
In this study, speech samples were taken from 43 people with PPA or FTD (8 svPPA, 4 nfvPPA, 9 lvPPA, 22 bvFTD) and 24 healthy controls. Speech was analysed perceptually using a 5-point rating scale across all speech subsystems. Speech was objectively quantified with measures of lexical stress (the pairwise variability index, PVI), vowel production, timing, voice quality and diadochokinetic (DDK) speech rate. The ability of speech measures to predict regions of neurodegeneration was assessed by comparison of speech to calculations of cortical thickness and subcortical volume derived from participants’ clinical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans. Longitudinal speech investigations were conducted for a subgroup of participants to investigate the capacity of the measures to track disease progression.
Group comparisons indicated that several speech measures differentiate pathological groups from controls, including measures of speech timing, DDK rate, and PVI. PVI and DDK also differentiated the nfvPPA group from other subtypes. Case studies of longitudinal data highlight measures which reflect motor speech changes in a case of bvFTD progressing to motor neurone disease (MND), and in two cases of nfvPPA.
Findings add to the documentation of speech production in PPA and FTD by establishing acoustic correlates which differ from the healthy population. Longitudinal case studies demonstrate the potential for these measures to be used clinically to improve monitoring of disease progression
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