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Letters to Students upon Merger with Trinity University
No full textTwo letters sent to students of the University of San Antonio during the summer of 1942, as part of the transition to becoming a part of Trinity University. The first, from University of San Antonio president W.W. Jackson, served as a letter of introduction for the Trinity administration. The second, from Trinity University president-elect Monroe G. Everett, introduced himself and the school to the students of University of San Antonio
Utilization of short-stay hospitals; summary of nonmedical statistics, United States, 1965
Full text linkStatistics are presented on the utilization of short-stay hospitals based on data abstracted by the Hospital Discharge Survey from hospital records for a national sample of discharged patients. Discharges, days of care, and average length of stay are distributed by each of the following variables: age, sex, marital status, color, and discharge status of the patient; and ownership, size, and geographic area of the hospital. Bed occupancy rates are distributed by selected characteristics of the hospital.[by Monroe G. Sirken].196752991141180
Design of sample surveys to estimate the prevalence of rare diseases : three unbiased estimates
Full text linkThree formuIas, varying in the extent that they utilize all the information coIIected by a survey based on a stratified sample of medical sources, are presented to estimate the number of diagnosed cases of a rare disease in the population.[by Z.W. Birnbaum and Monroe G. Sirken].Bibliography: p. 8.196552943611180
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
Monroe G. McKay and American Indian Law: In Honor of Judge McKay’s Tenth Anniversary on the Federal Bench
Full text linkThis essay, written in honor of Judge Monroe G. McKay\u27s tenth anniversary as a member of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, considers the difficulty of justifying a separatist policy for the American Indian; examines the opinions authored by Judge McKay in American Indian law cases; and discusses the McKay opinions and the issue of separation
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
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