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Morgan Smith Gilmer papers, MSS.0571
No full textAbstract: Correspondence, as well as photocopy and typescript copies of a booklet by Gilmer, containing the last roll and brief history of "Shockley's Independent Escort Company of Alabama Cavalry," a Civil War unit formed by University of Alabama students Branscom Shockley and Henry Burt in March 1864.Scope and Content Note: The collection contains correspondence and two typescript copies of a booklet written by Gilmer, titled "Shockley's Independent Escort Company," which enumerates surviving and deceased members of Shockley's Alabama Escort Company, and provides a brief history of the company. The booklet was originally published in 1905; the typescript copies were produced in 1954.Biographical/Historical Note: Morgan S. Gilmer was born in 1846. He was part of Shockley's Escort during the Civil War and was wounded in Lafayette, Georgia, on 24 June 1864. He rejoined his unit on 1 November 1864 and served until the end of the war. He returned to Montgomery, Alabama, and married Helen Barton in 1885. He died in 1916.Gilmer's register of Shockley's Independent Escort Company was published by Woodruff Company, Montgomery, Alabama, in 1905.The unit itself was formed by University of Alabama students Branscom Shockley and Henry Burt in March 1864 during the Civil War
Morgan Smith Wind Turbine Site Test, Summary Report
No full textThis summary report made by the Daniel Guggeheim Airship Institute in Akron, Ohio contains results of wind tunnel surveys on the Pond Mountain model for the S. Morgan Smith Company. The report only contains the Pond Mountain model because of all the various mountain sites tested this one appeared to be most promising. Pond Mountain probably refers to the mountain of this same name in Ashe County, North Carolina
Morgan Smith Wind Turbine Site Tests (Pond Mt.
No full textThis report made at the Daniel Guggeheim Airship Institute in Akron, Ohio covers tests on the Pond Mountain model for the S. Morgan Smith Company. The Pond Mountain model was made to a horizontal and vertical scale of 1.0 ft. to 1.0 mile. The model was mounted in the wind tunnel and tuft pictures to determine the general features of the flow over this site were taken for eight wind directions, i.e., west, northwest, north, northeast, east, southeast, south and southwest. The west wind direction was run at three different wind tunnel velocities--60 mph, 85 mph and 110 mph--while the other directions were all run with an 86 mph wind. Pond Mountain probably refers to the mountain of this same name in Ashe County, North Carolina
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
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