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    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The 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

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    “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

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    We 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

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    We 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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    Epikardiyal Yağ Dokusunun Ekokardiografi ve Bilgisayarlı Tomografi ile Değerlendirilmesi

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    Epicardial fat is the visceral fatty deposition of the heart. In the last 10 years, interest in epicardial fat has increased substantially and epicardial fat has been shown to be linked with a number of clinical conditions like metabolic syndrome, atherosclerosis, glucose intolerance, insulin resistance, elevated blood pressure, and fatty liver. The aim of this study is to determine the correlation of the measurements of epicardial fat by multislice computed tomography (MDCT) and transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) and to determine the association of the inflammatory markers, resistin and leptin, with epicardial fat. 200 patients (94 men, 106 women), 30-90 years of age, in whom MDCT angiography was performed according to different clinical indications, were included in this study. Epicardial fat thickness was measured by TTE in the parasternal long axis (PLAX) and parasternal short axis (PSAX) at end-systole and an average of a total of three measurements was taken. In MDCT, epicardial fat thickness was measured at basal, mid and apical portions in short axis and in the right and left atrioventicular grooves and the neighborhood of the right and left ventricles in long axis; this accounted to a total of 29 measurements by MDCT. Average measurements made by MDCT in the superior interventricular groove, inferior interventricular groove, anteroinferior portion of the right ventricle, anterosuperior portion of the right ventricle and superior portion of the right ventricle as well as average measurements in the left ventricular apex, left atrioventricular groove, right atrioventricular groove, and right ventricular apex were found to be correlated with the measurements made by TTE. Univariate analysis revealed an association between epicardial fat thickness measured by TTE and MDCT and age, waist diameter, body mass index, presence of hypertension, HDL, uric acid, and leukocyte count. When the effects of these risk factors were evaluated together, age (TTE: β±SH: 0.012±0.005, p: 0.034; MDCT: β±SH: 0.022±0.008, p: 0.007), HDL level (TTE: β±SH: -0.132±0.006, p: 0.027; MDCT: β±SH: -0.016±0.008, p: 0.044), uric acid level (TTE: β±SH: 0.110±0.056, p: 0.045; MDCT: β±SH: 0.119±0.078, p: 0.011), and leukocyte count (TTE: β±SH: 0.126±0.042, p:0.003; MDCT: β±SH: 0.118±0.058, p: 0.001) were found to be independent predictors of epicardial fat thickness. Resistin and leptin was measured in 80 patients. Resistin (β±SH: 0.276± 0.041, p: 0.001) and leptin (β±SH: 0.068± 0.019, p: 0.002) were evaluated according to age, HDL level, uric acid level and leukocyte count. Both resistin and leptin were found to be independent predictors of epicardial fat thickness.Epikardiyal yağ dokusu (EYD) kalbin viseral yağ deposudur. Son 10 yılda EYD'ye ilginin giderek artması ile birlikte klinik çalışmalarda EYD'nin metabolik sendrom, ateroskleroz, glukoz toleransı, insülin rezistansı, kan basıncı yüksekliği, karaciğer yağlanması gibi çok sayıda klinik durum ile ilişkisi ortaya konmuştur. Bu çalışmanın amacı EYD'nin değerlendirilmesinde kullanılan iki yöntem olan çok kesitli bilgisayarlı tomografi (ÇKBT) ve ekokardiyografi (EKO) arasındaki korelasyonu irdelemek ve birer inflamatuvar belirteç olarak kabul gören resistin ve leptin'in EYD ile olan ilişkisini incelemektir. Çalışmaya klinik endikasyonla ÇKBT anjiyografi yapılan 30 ile 90 yaşları arasında 200 hasta (94 erkek,106 kadın) alındı. Epikardiyal yağ dokusu kalınlıkları EKO'da parasternal uzun eksen (PLAX) ve parasternal kısa eksen'de (PSAX) sistol sonunda ölçüldü ve üç ölçümlerin ortalamaları alındı. ÇKBT de kalp çevresinden kısa eksende bazal, mid ve apikalden; uzun eksende ise sağ ve sol atriyo ventriküler oluklar ile sağ ve sol ventrikül komşuluklarından toplam 29 yerden ölçüm yapıldı. ÇKBT'de Superior interventriküler oluk, inferior interventriküler oluk, sağ ventrikül anterior inferior, sağ ventrikül anterior superior ve sağ ventrikül superior ortalamaları; sol ventrikül apeksi, sol atriyo-ventriküler oluk, sağ atriyo-ventriküler oluk, sağ ventrikül apeksi ve ortalama epikardiyal yağ kalınlıkları ile EKO'daki ölçümler arasında korelasyon saptandı. Tek değişkenli analizlerde yaş, bel ölçüsü, vücut kitle indeksi, hipertansiyon varlığı, HDL, ürik asit ve lökosit değerleri ile EKO ve ÇKBT de ölçülen epikardiyal yağ kalınlıkları ilişkili bulundu. Bu risk faktörlerinin etkileri birlikte değerlendirildiğinde yaş (EKO:β±SH: 0,012±0,005, p:0,034;ÇKBT: β±SH: 0,022±0,008, p:0,007), HDL düzeyi (EKO:β±SH:-0,132±0,006, p:0,027;ÇKBT: β±SH: -0,016±0,008, p:0,044), Ürik asit düzeyi (EKO:β±SH: 0,110±0,056, p:0,045;ÇKBT β±SH: 0,119±0,078, p:0,011) ve Lökosit düzeyi (EKO:β±SH: 0,126±0,042, p:0,003;ÇKBT β±SH: 0,118±0,058, p:0,001) epikardiyal yağ kalınlığının bağımsız birer öngördürücüsü olduğu tespit edildi. Resistin ve leptin düzeyleri 80 hastada ölçüldü. Yaş, HDL düzeyi, ürik asit değeri ve lökosit miktarı resistin ve leptin ile birlikte değerlendirildi. Resistin (β±SH: 0,276± 0,041, p:0,001) ve Leptin düzeylerinin (β±SH: 0,068± 0,019, p:0,002) epikardiyal yağ kalınlığının bağımsız birer öngördürücüsü olduğu tespit edildi

    koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist

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    We 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 Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902

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    In 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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