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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
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
Études expérimentale et numérique du comportement en fatigue du polyéthylène haute densité renforcé avec des fibres courtes de bouleau
Get PDFAu cours des dernières décennies, les recherches scientifiques se sont focalisées sur l’étude des composites à fibres naturelles. Les travaux portés sur ce type de matériaux ont connu une croissance fulgurante vu les avantages présentés par ces composites vis-à-vis ceux à fibres synthétiques. Parmi ces avantages, il est possible de souligner leurs bas prix et leurs caractères moins nocifs envers l’environnement. Toutefois, les travaux scientifiques portant sur la durabilité (fatigue, fluage, vieillissement. . . ) des composites à fibres naturelles restent relativement limités. Par conséquent, cette limite peut freiner l’exploitation de ces composites dans le domaine industriel en sachant que certaines pièces mécaniques sont soumises à des chargements cycliques et/ou un vieillissement hygrothermique (humidité + séchage) durant leurs fonctionnements. Dans ce contexte, ce projet de doctorat vise à étudier la durabilité en termes de fatigue et de vieillissement hygrothermique d’un nouveau composite à fibres naturelles constitué d’une matrice de polyéthylène à haute densité et des renforts sous forme de fibres courtes de bouleau. Ce projet commence, tout d’abord, par étudier le comportement en fatigue, sous chargement de flexion, du nouveau composite ainsi que l’effet du vieillissement hygrothermique sur ce comportement. Ensuite, ce travail se penchera sur la modélisation de la cinétique de diffusion d’humidité au sein du composite étudié. Ceci va permettre de définir la prise de masse en humidité dans le matériau tout en prenant en compte la diffusion non-fickienne. Enfin, un modèle d’endommagement sera proposé pour traduire la baisse de la contrainte maximale de flexion durant un essai de fatigue. Ainsi, le projet de doctorat présentera une étude complète sur la durabilité en termes de fatigue et de vieillissement hygrothermique du polyéthylène haute densité renforcé avec des fibres de bouleau courtes. Grâce à cette étude, ce composite pourra être utilisé dans la fabrication des pièces mécaniques destinées à un fonctionnement en présence des chargements cycliques de flexion et de l’humidité. Parmi ces pièces mécaniques, il est possible de citer les engrenages. Les résultats du projet de doctorat sont issus de deux parties : expérimentale et numérique. La partie expérimentale a montré que le niveau de déformation correspondant au HCFS (high Cycle Fatigue Strength) du Polyéthylène renforcé avec 40%wt de fibres courtes de bouleau est égal à 0,91%. De plus, cette partie a démontré que le vieillissement hygrothermique engendre une baisse du HCFS du matériau étudié. La cause directe de cette baisse a été investiguée et il a été prouvé que l’apparition de nouveaux mécanismes d’endommagement, après vieillissement hygrothermique, représente cette cause directe. La partie numérique du projet de doctorat a permis d’adopter un modèle de diffusion non-fickienne permettant de définir la prise de masse en humidité au sein du composite étudié. Ce modèle a donné des courbes qui suivent fidèlement celles issues des campagnes expérimentales d’immersion dans l’eau distillée. De plus, la partie numérique a servi de proposer un modèle d’endommagement qui permet de traduire l’évolution de la contrainte de flexion maximale (contrainte résiduelle) en fonction du nombre de cycles. Afin de réduire le temps de calcul et garantir une bonne qualité des résultats, la méthode de Cycle Jump a été utilisée. La comparaison entre les résultats numériques et ceux provenant des essais expérimentaux de fatigue a permis de valider le modèle d’endommagement adopté tout en identifiant certaines limites.
During the last decades, the scientific researches have been focused on the study of the natural-fiber-reinforced composites. The works made on this type of materials have increased because of their several advantages compared to the synthetic-fiber-reinforced composites. Among these advantages, it is possible to highlight their low costs and their friendly environment characters. However, the scientific works concerning the durability (fatigue, creep, aging. . . ) of natural-fiber-reinforced composites are relatively limited. Therefore, this limit can slow down the exploitation of these composites in the industrial field knowing that certain mechanical parts can be under cyclic loading and/or hygrothermal aging (moisture + drying) during their performances. In this context, the PhD project aims to study the durability, in term of fatigue and hygrothermal aging, of a new natural-fiber-reinforced composite made from a high density polyethylene, as a matrix, and short birch fibers, as reinforcements. This project begins, at the first, by studying the fatigue behavior, under bending loading, of the new composite and the effect of hygrothermal aging on this behavior. Then, this work will focus on the modelling of the moisture diffusion kinetic inside the studied composite. This model will allow defining the water uptake of the material taking into account the non-fickian diffusion. Finally, a damage model will be proposed to describe the maximum bending stress decrease during a fatigue test. Thus, the PhD project will present a full study on the durability, in term of fatigue and hygrothermal aging, of the short-birch-fiber-reinforced high-density polyethylene. Thanks to this study, this composite can be used in the manufacturing of mechanical parts for performances with cyclic bending loading and moisture. Among these parts, it is possible to mention the gears. Results found in the PhD project come from experimental and numerical parts. The first part has shown that the strain level corresponding to the high Cycle Fatigue Strength (HCFS) of the high-density polyethylene/40% of short birch fibers is equal to 0.91%. Moreover, this part has presented that the hygrothermal aging causes the decrease of the HCFS of the studied material. The direct cause of this drop has been investigated and it was proved that the creation of new damage mechanisms, after hygrothermal aging, represents this direct cause. The numerical part of the project has allowed adopting a non-fickian diffusion model to define the water uptake inside the studied composite. Curves found with this model have a well fitting with those from the experimental campaigns of immersion in distilled water. Furthermore, the numerical part has presented a damage model defining the evolution of the maximum bending stress (residual strength) according to the number of cycles. To reduce the calculation time and to guarantee the good quality of the results, the Cycle Jump method has been used. The comparison made between the numerical results and those from the experimental fatigue tests has allowed to validate the damage model and to identify certain limits
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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