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[Portrait of] May Bruce [picture] /
No full textCondition: Good.; One Paris panel photograph.; Inscriptions: "May Bruce Nov 28 95"--In ink, handwritten below photograph on mount; "Talma Paris Panel 119 Swanston St. Melbourne."--Printed on mount, below photograph.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3647788
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
Music helps me live inside my head : a longitudinal ethnographic case study of a group of senior high school music students
No full textWithin the established tradition of qualitative research techniques, this ethnographic case study reveals the musical lives of two single sex groups of Senior High School music students in Queensland. The research was carried out during 1998 and 1999 at two Brisbane Independent Non-Government Schools, one a Boys School and the other a Girls School. It was centred on a mixed core group of Year 11 students [21 students] who had elected to study the subject "Senior Music". The research continued for the two years of their senior course. Students were\ud
interviewed in groups initially and then individually over this period with an increasing focus being made on the issues as they evolved. This research provides an evolving view of aspects of the understandings that these students had about music in their lives. Knowledge about young people and their involvement with music as a human experience, including the more formal processes of music in education, has been generated. This knowledge is fundamental because it emerged from the key stakeholders - the students. It was important that these student ideas\ud
be documented, to portray the positive and negative roles that music can play in the lives of a particular group of students; in this case, a basically musically committed group who, for the most part, already have a passion\ud
for music in their lives. The data generated from this ethnographic case study has the capacity to challenge existing teaching practice and approaches to learning in the secondary school music curriculum, in particular, the course at the senior level of years 11 and 12 that these\ud
students were studying over the two years of this research project. The study presents the voices of the students by recording their responses to a variety of musical discussions.\ud
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The themes of this research intersected as the research evolved. The principal "players" consisted of; (i) the voice of the student, (ii) the formal course of study, (iv) the literature, and (iv) the voice of the experienced\ud
practitioner in the form of myself as the researcher. This was the context that guided the results of the study.\ud
The study focussed on the students' views and responses to the world of music with the themes emerging as it progressed over the two years. One theme concerned their listening habits in music, whether it was in the context of their formal studies of music or simply the casual listening\ud
experiences in their lives in general. Another theme involved their musical performing experiences either through the formally organised setting of concert performances, as part of their class music course, or as a part of their informal experiences of making music. The students also reflected on their music rehearsals in ensembles such as orchestras, bands and vocal groups as well as on their music practice sessions at home.\ud
Another emerging theme was composition as part of the students' musical experiences. This area did not attract the same level of attention as listening and performing but nonetheless had a significant impact on the students as young musicians. All these areas had connections in some\ud
way with their formal study of music through the school class music course. \ud
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Other themes emerged that were interwoven with the above major themes. These included:\ud
(i) the place of music in their lives in general;\ud
(ii) the place of music and its relationship to their other academic studies;\ud
(iii) the influence of the culture of the school and of society in general;\ud
(iv) the personal musical interests of the students;\ud
(v) extensions to their musical world through associations with other people who may be part of this world;\ud
(vi) other areas of the students' lives that impinge on their musical experiences, and; \ud
(vii) differences between the formal requirements of music syllabi and the needs and interests of the learner.\ud
The findings of the study provide a valuable insight into the understandings that a group of adolescents have concerning the place of music in their lives. It reveals the extent to which many of these understandings reinforce and support the success of the formal aspects of their musical education, whilst at the same time revealing tensions between their personal connections with music and music as a formal course of study at school. The study also allowed the opportunity to record and "celebrate" the place of music in the lives of a group of adolescents by documenting the positive aspects of having music in their\ud
lives and in their education. Parents, teachers and syllabus writers need to be reminded of the positive aspects of music in the lives of adolescents. This case study reveals the actual "voice" of the committed music student and suggests that in designing courses of study, music educators should take into account the interests and passions of their students
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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