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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
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
Refinement and optimization methods for reconstructing and modeling indoor environments
Full text linkDriven by the development in digital 3D imaging and scanning technology, the efficient capturing and modeling of 3D objects and environments has become a critical task in many application domains such as in architecture, engineering, robotics, navigation, construction and facility management. In particular, the availability of highly expressive 3D models from indoor environments could create highly added value in these domains, since these models, generally known as Building Information Models (BIMs), could provide semantically rich representations of the scene, allowing its analysis and manipulation. Also, they could provide accurate identification of their main architectural wall structures, such as the windows and doors, based on their as-is condition, which might be significantly different from the one they were designed.
Despite the many recent research efforts, the fully automatic generation of semantically enriched 3D models from building interiors still remains a very challenging and time-consuming process. The main difficulties lie on the accurate and fast acquisition of the surrounding environment and the creation of a faithful and semantically rich 3D model. Although the open problems in the field are still manifold, we focused in this thesis specifically on the following three important challenges: first, how to capture efficiently the 3D information of the scene, using a method which combines increased accuracy, high performance and produces adequate results for the majority of real-world indoor applications; second, how to faithfully capture the finer details of structural building elements and generate a semantically rich building model; third, how to allow the successful and automatic reconstruction of 3D BIM models without relying on restrictive assumptions about the scene or the dataset.
For each of these issues, we propose a solution which advances the state-of- the-art and allows for improved performance and better quality to the extracted results. Our first work focuses on the efficient and fast acquisition of the scene and introduces a new hardware-efficient stereo vision method. In our method, a local-based correlation algorithm computes the matching cost values and an optimization technique based on Discrete Dynamical Systems refines the extracted depth information. In the same contribution, we propose also an efficient parallel-pipelined hardware architecture, which implements the proposed stereo reconstruction method on a custom FPGA device, allowing high processing speeds for high-resolution stereo images.
The second research contribution of this thesis focuses on the 3D modeling stage of the reconstruction pipeline and aims to recover and semantically label the architectural wall elements of indoor environments. This is achieved by partitioning the wall surfaces of the reconstructed building models into small planar patches and classifying them using a bayesian graph-cut optimization technique. Due to its beneficial design, our approach can be embedded as a post-processing unit to the majority of modern modeling pipelines, enabling them to extract automatically semantically rich 3D models.
The last research contribution of this thesis lifts a restrictive and widely-used assumption in the field, that the scanner viewpoint positions should be known a priori, in order the reconstruction and 3D modeling of the scene to be performed successfully. Specifically, this work constitutes the first method for re-engineering and reconstructing the original scanner positions from raw point clouds. It relies on the scanning characteristics of the acquisition process and employs a statistical analysis to raw point data, in order to reveal the features which will allow the retrieval of the true scanner positions.
Extensive qualitative and quantitative evaluations on real-world and synthetic datasets reveal the advantageous behavior of the proposed methods, as well as their efficiency and performance under challenging and difficult indoor conditions
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