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Estimating social network metrics from single-file movements in Barbary macaques, Macaca sylvanus
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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
Evil by my Good: The Shifting Moral Interpretations of Milton’s Revolutionary Hero
No full text彌爾頓的史詩巨著《失樂園》（Paradise Lost）並沒有落入文學理論的俗套， 而是引發了一場持續三百多年的爭論，即：彌爾頓筆下的撒旦到底是不是故事中的英雄人物，不論是出於偶然還是主觀意願。這部史詩的背景是《聖經》伊甸園的故事，其核心主題與這個故事一樣，都是關於”誘惑”。在《失樂園》中，撒旦對亞當和夏娃的惡意誘惑似乎證明瞭他的邪惡，但同時，我們也會對他在這一冒險行動中所展示出的英雄情懷產生認同感。許多西方的批評家認為這正是《失樂園》的魅力所在，他們的觀點是彌爾頓筆下的撒旦應該是被唾棄的人物。而另一方面，有些人則認為這種傳統的解讀是中世紀的落後思想，即：人們應當服從權威和已繼承的智慧，並嚴格地控制自己 的想法和熱情。而且他們認為這種解讀完全違背了當代社會所宣導的自由寬容和浮士德價值觀。這篇論文首先將探討對《失樂園》的傳統解讀，以及它所引發的反應。我會闡述彌爾頓的作品所體現的西方文化中的道德反轉：從一開始把”撒旦”奉為政治革命的象徵性人物，到後來批判為人性墮落的典型。分析了文學理論和大眾在”政治認同”角度對撒旦這個人物的評價的變化之後，我將對”後現代思想”和”存在主義”著作與《失樂園》進行比較性閱讀，例如《撒旦的現實意義》（對自由的強烈渴望帶來焦慮，並需要行動）。撒旦的認同危機可以分為三個主要階段 ：在被異化的危機中形成了主觀意識 、對權貴話語權的反抗，以及最終沒能免除對自己的定罪。這篇論文的目的是展示現代思想家們對”邪惡”定義的普遍否定，而這種否定是與人類的自由和創造力的源頭相矛盾的（這種否定會導致自由和創造邊的消亡）。此外，我還將闡述：對所謂”邪惡現象”的沉默是怎樣導致和延續社會不公，以及少數族裔的邊緣化。Paradise Lost is a unique text in that responses to Milton’s epic have not evolved in line with trends in literary theory, and instead rehash the three hundred year old disagreement on whether Milton’s Satan is, in any sense, either by accident or deliberation, the hero of the story. This dialogue, like the biblical story of the Garden of Eden on which the epic is based, centers on the theme of temptation: in Paradise Lost Satan’s deliberate and malicious destruction of Adam and Eve seems to guarantee his guilt, yet it is hard not to sympathize with the heroic passion of Satan’s daring odyssey. Many modern critics read this as exactly the genius of Paradise Lost, that it is a seductive text, and that Milton’s Satan must be resisted. On the other hand, it’s easy to argue that this orthodox reading is medieval—a duty towards obedience to inherited wisdom and the strict containment of your own passionate tendencies; and that this reading is also completely at odds with the liberal, Faustian values of contemporary society. In this thesis, after exploring the orthodox response to Paradise Lost (and the reaction it generates), I’ll demonstrate how Milton’s writings are symptomatic of an ethical inversion in Western culture, which first caused Satan to be celebrated (as a symbol for revolutionary politics) and later condemned (as humanity confronted the depths of its unrestrained depravity). After tracing how responses to the character of Satan have evolved in literature and entertainment in line with political sympathies, my original contribution to knowledge will be a comparative reading of Paradise Lost through the lens of postmodern thought and existentialism as Satan’s over-proximity with the Real (the abyss of freedom creates anxiety which demands action). Satan’s crisis of identity can be divided into three major shifts: the development of subjectivity through a crisis of alienation; his resistance to a totalizing power discourse that defines his being; and his ultimate failure to exempt himself from the systemic order that relied on his transgression. The aim of this thesis will be to show how universally modern thinkers agree on the concept of evil as a negation of what is, in favor of anything else but this—a negation that is paradoxically the source of all human liberty and creativity (which nevertheless leads to death); and also to demonstrate how the silencing of so-called satanic elements allows and perpetuates social injustice and the marginalization of minority voices
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
Protein interactions with the platelet integrin alpha(IIb) regulatory motif
No full textIntegrins are transmembrane proteins regulating cellular shape, mobility and the cell cycle. A highly-conserved signature motif in the cytoplasmic tail of the integrin -subunit, KXGFFKR, plays a critical role in regulating integrin function. To date, six proteins have been identified that target this motif of the platelet-specific integrin IIb3. We employ peptide-affinity chromatography followed-up with LC-MS/MS analysis as well as protein chips to identify new potential regulators of integrin function in platelets and put them into their biological context using information from protein:protein interaction (PPI) databases. 44 platelet proteins bind with high affinity to an immobilized LAMWKVGFFKR-peptide. Of these, seven have been reported in the PPI literature as interactors with integrin -subunits. 68 recombinant human proteins expressed on the protein chip specifically bind with high affinity to biotin-tagged -integrin cytoplasmic peptides. Two of these proteins are also identified in the peptide-affinity experiments, one is also found in the PPI databases and a further one is present in the data to all three approaches. Finally, novel short linear interaction motifs are common to a number of proteins identified. <br/
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