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Encountering Anthropomorphism: Editorial
Full text linkThe term ‘anthropomorphism’ relates to a complex of interesting and mutually contradictory ideas, which this issue aims to explore. On the one hand, it is used to refer to something that resembles a human, and, on the other hand, it refers to our natural tendency to read human characteristics in the non-human object or animal. Bruno Latour complicates things further when he insists that ‘anthropos and morphos together mean either that which has human shape or that which gives shape to humans’ (Latour 2009: 237). The articles in this issue address the subject of anthropomorphism in its multiplicity, with different conceptions of the term coexisting in the same volume, and we hope that the tensions between them will make the issue more than the sum of its parts. The purpose of this introduction, then, is not to argue for one conception of anthropomorphism over another, but to present a series of encounters with it and to tease out conceptual threads that connect the varying contributions
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
Spattered with Words: a stylistic toolkit accounting for the 'theatricality' behind the playwright/screenwriter's use of real and improvised language in creating drama texts.
Full text linkThis thesis documents investigations into the success (or not) of real, spontaneous dialogue when applied to the creation of a script for dramatic performance. The accounting for such success delves into different theoretical frameworks: conversation theory, stylistics, Cognitive Poetics, narratology, and extended cognition. This is therefore an interdisciplinary perspective, with ideas emerging from the fields of psychology, philosophy, literary stylistics and linguistics; yet all applied within the context of drama and performance. As such, this thesis may be seen as a playwright's 'toolbox' where the different views, as they necessarily overlap, can be seen as elements, which, when taken together, account for (and help in) the decisions an author may make in creating a text out of improvised speech. The investigation is also a search for the notion of 'theatricality' in the context of authentic speech and uses various forms of theatrical performance as examples, ranging from amateur improvisation to TV and film productions, Commedia dell'Arte to modern, immersive theatre. Finally, application of the theoretical frameworks is made to a current theatre project, The Plant
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
'Autistic [Neuro]Queer Pioneers' Using participatory autism research, performance, and visual art to articulate the experiences of late diagnosed autistic women (cis- and trans-) and non-binary people
Full text linkBackground: Much autism research is predicated on the assumption that autistic people are male and/or male-brained. This gendered diagnosis has led to the marginalisation of a group of autistic people that do not have these stereotypical male autistic traits (i.e., systematising, externalised presentation of autistic behaviours such as stereotypical meltdown and stimming) being mis-/undiagnosed. This group includes autistic women (cis-/trans-) and non-binary people (AWCTN+). The author, who is AWCTN+, did not have these stereotypical traits and remained misdiagnosed with mental health issues until aged 39.
Methods: Their experience became the impetus for this thesis; to address the knowledge gap about adult AWNBT+ peoples' lived experiences using creative methods. Drawing on their performance art background, they designed nine two-hour creative workshops (CWs) to construct an autistic space that encouraged a group of adult late-/ self-diagnosed AWNBT+ university students to articulate their experiences of being autistic. The culmination of these workshops was a 90-minute collaborative performance piece that was to be shown to the public. A series of recordings from the creative workshops plus one-to-one interviews with the participants were transcribed and analysed using elements of grounded theory and thematic analysis. Post-performance interviews were also conducted. This thesis develops a new form which I have entitled 'embodied autieethnography performance'. A method which has built on other autistic academics' use of autieethnography as the autistic form of autoethnography. This was the method I used for my solo performance Adventures of Super Autie Girl to articulate my own experience of being autistic which was further developed to incorporate the experiences of the co-performers in Adventures of Super Autie Gang (ASAG).
Results: Seventeen people were recruited and participated in at least two of the CWs. Eight participants consented to one-to-one interviews and all participants consented to the CWs being recorded. All data were anonymised and transcribed before being analysed. Five themes emerged from these data: 1) Autistic Connectivity/Autistic Space; 2) Labels and Identity: Reappropriation; 3) Stimming/Body Signs; 4) Autistic Sensory Experience; 5) Articulating and Re-Evaluating Autistic Needs. The collaborative performance piece, ASAG, was a culmination of all the knowledge learned in the CWs and was co-created with five of the CW participants. It was shown on April 30, 2019 at the Autism Arts Festival, University of Kent, UK.
Conclusion: The emergent themes appear to challenge the validity of the male and/or male-brained model of diagnosis, which does not appear to adequately describe the experiences of AWNBT+ people. In addition, CW participants reported increased: self-acceptance; pride; confidence to articulate their needs and stim in public. The thesis also identified the importance of autistic spaces
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
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